Betrayal in Chess

I was analyzing one of Bronstein games (Tolush vs Bronstein 1944, Fianchetto Kings Indian with the rare 9.Be3) and he mentions that Qb6 was another option which Smyslov tried against Botvinnik (and won).

I looked up on the game and found that Botvinnik suspected that his second (Kan) had told Smyslov about Botvinnik´s preparation.

I also forgot to mention, do you guys think Kan betrayed the Patriarch?

I personally dont think so, even tho according to Botvinnik he had never play this line himself the line had already been played (Tolush vs Bronstein was an example of it, that was played 10 years ago) and I guess that any decent player would prepare for everything, specially if it is a match that could fulfill your dreams.

Poor Kan, I never liked his Sicilian Variation (Taimanov and Najdorf are my ladies) but getting difamated like that doesnt look nice.

PD: Am I the only one that sees the PGN viewer not marking 23...Nxg5+ as a check (it marks it as 23... Nxg5 only, missing the "+").

I forgot about the image, oops.

Kan certainly sounds like a pretty sketchy name...

Ilia Abramovich Kan sounds pretty cool to me, even tho it may remind some of a dog, but thankully  English thing is not my main language so I dont have those kind of problems.

I was waiting for some evidence of Kan betraying, but seems like you are just here to hijack my thread.

BUMP? RIP?

Yep, I remember that one too (a lil bit, correct me if Im wrong). I dont remember the name of the dude nor the story in an exact manner.

I think Kasparov got suspicious after losing 3 games in which Karpov simply outplayed all of his novelties, Kasparov was suspicious too because supposedly his second was writing down his opening analysis in another book.

I LIKE WHITE'S 9TH MOVE

I dont, it is trash

Otechompahpaquilti

The fact that it made you happy has nothing to do with the move being good or bad.

Perhaps if you play h3 first Be3 is actually a good move.

Whether that move in that game is  good or bad is a matter of supreme indifference to me. I enjoy residing on the square 'e3'. 

Are you delusional then? I thought you were a human(not a bishop) and that no place in earth was called e3 (I may be wrong on the last thing)

You can perfectly be a bishop and a human at the same time.