No, this game does not have brilliant tactical play and no, it doesn't have shocking sacrifices either. In fact, it doesn't have a forced mate at the end (as far as I can tell). Instead, this game has smart positional play from a GM everyone should be familiar with, though I doubt few people are (I only heard about him in passing while reading a Kasparov game analysis, though there are quite a few openings with variations named after him). Yuri Averbakh, a world-class grand master, shows his positional chops off in this game against Deli. His pawns creep up on the enemy White pieces like ivy and take root right a the doorstep of Deli's first ranks. The game ends in resignation after White is herded back into his home turf with hardly more than 9 squares to share between his heavy pieces (both rooks and the queen) and a few pawns that never left their starting squares. Here is Deli-Averbakh, 1962:
Deli-Averbakh: Ruy Lopez, Flohr System
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Very nice find/share. Black gave the white army entirely too little options in the face of too many overworked pieces. Nb4 will stave off the fork threats for the moment, but black's Rg6 looks impossible to defend w/o dumping the lady.
Yeah, This was one of my earlier analyses that I originally posted in the Royal Assassins forum. It made sense to bring it back now that I want to analyze some variations of the Ruy. I figure that after this,1. I'll provide more of an analysis on the Flohr System, 2. then proceed to the Marshall Attack. (3 more games) After that, I'll try show games where White wins in the aforementioned variations. Later, (2 more games) I'll show the Open Defense and finish with the Open Ruy with a link to vTlc's analysis of the Lasker-Capablanca game. If anyone requests an analysis of other lines, I'll try to look into those, too.
All in all, that leaves me with about 10 more posts to do.
