Impressive! Thanks Batgirl.
A Little Something for Kamalakanta: Bronstein's Tactical Pin.
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May 13, 2021
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That is a gorgeous game! Can you imagine the aesthetic pleasure of making a move like Qg6?
Kewl
May 13, 2021
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kamalakanta wrote:
Thanks, Batgirl!
Bronstein is my favorite!
Who would have ever guessed?
Thanks Batgirl to show such an instructive and amusing game. I am surprised that a great player like Geller could miss profound tactics.
This is the game
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1048987
Bronstein was a very strong player. He tied his match with botvinnik for the world campionship 12-12 and Botvinnik kept his title. Later was said that Bronstein was not allowed to win the match because he was a nephew of Trotzky.
May 13, 2021
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#11
A very pretty combination.
Bronstein has produced some beautiful and unexpected combinative finishes. Here's my favorite, against Korchnoi:
May 13, 2021
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Earlier today I ordered Minev's book with 50 short games by Bronstein!
blueemu wrote:
A very pretty combination.
Bronstein has produced some beautiful and unexpected combinative finishes. Here's my favorite, against Korchnoi:
Thanks for sharing. Very nice.
There are excellent books by Bronstein himself:
"Zürich 1953" Double round robin candidates tournament where Bronstein ended second
"200 open games" with 1 e4 e5
And by his second B.S. Vainstein (a.k.a. B.S. Queennabber) "Chess Improviser"
May 14, 2021
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underworldgirl wrote:
Thanks Batgirl to show such an instructive and amusing game. I am surprised that a great player like Geller could miss profound tactics.
Everyone misses something somewhere along the way.
May 14, 2021
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blueemu wrote:
A very pretty combination.
Bronstein has produced some beautiful and unexpected combinative finishes. Here's my favorite, against Korchnoi:
There's nothing simple about Bronstein. Some of his combinations are quite magical conceptions.
May 14, 2021
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Bronstein spent so much of his chess career "thinking outside the box" that it was like being inside the box, for him.
The fact that Geller missed the tactic indicates how hard it is to see, but f7 is pinned tactically - meaning it can't be moved without allowing an attack. Bronstein, however, realized that if f7 wasn't there - or if f7 were to move - he could simply play: Rxg7, followed by Ng6 mate. Of course, ignoring the Queen on g6 leads to instant mate.
The game in it's entirety: