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The Greatest French Defense Ever Played: The Best Games Of The 1970s

Apr 26, 2022
18 min
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The following game against Sammy Reshevsky is one of the great masterpieces in the French Defense, possibly the greatest chess game ever won by the black side. Reshevsky plays theoretically, but the theory of the time proves flawed as Vaganian finds a series of four utterly brilliant sacrifices to blow Reshevsky off the board.