Positions such as today's with queens and rooks on both sides hunting down the enemy king, can be really scary. Especially scary, you would think, for White ( to play ) who is menaced by pawn to e2 delivering instant checkmate. It was Yuri Averbakh's first big competition outside Russia but the future world title candidate and USSR champion kept cool and delivered a winning blow of his own. What happen?
Yuri Averbakh vs Frantisek Zita, Sczawno-Zdroj 1950
Positions such as today's with queens and rooks on both sides hunting down the enemy king, can be really scary.
Especially scary, you would think, for White ( to play ) who is menaced by pawn to e2 delivering instant checkmate.
It was Yuri Averbakh's first big competition outside Russia but the future world title candidate and USSR champion kept cool and delivered a winning blow of his own.
What happen?
Yuri Averbakh vs Frantisek Zita,
Sczawno-Zdroj 1950