[blind-chess] Annotated Game #026: Aron Nimzowitsh - Siegbert Tarrasch, St. Petersburg 1914
- From: Roderick Macdonald <rmacd@xxxxxxxx>
- To: Blind Chess Mailing List <blind-chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 18:45:36 -1000 (HST)
Annotated Game #26:
Aron Nimzowitsch - Siegbert Tarrasch, St. Petersburg 1914
Adapted and Condensed from
Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Contents:
++1. Aron Isaevich Nimzowitsch
++1.A Life
++1.B Chess career
++1.C Legacy
++1.D Personality
++1.E Notable chess games
++2. Siegbert Tarrasch
++2.A Chess career
++2.B Chess teachings
++2.C Clash with hypermodern school
++2.D Contribution to opening theory
++2.E Famous Tarrasch combinations
++3. Aron Nomzowitsch - Siegbert Tarrasch
++1. Aron Isaevich Nimzowitsch
Aron Isaevich Nimzowitsch (born Aron Niemzowitsch and also known as
Aaron Nimzovich) (November 7, 1886 - March 16, 1935) was a Latvian-
born Danish unofficial chess grandmaster and a very influential
chess writer. He was the foremost figure amongst the hypermoderns.
++1.A Life
Born in Riga in Livonia, then part of the Russian empire, the
Jewish German-speaking Nimzowitsch came from a wealthy family,
where he learned chess from his father, who was a merchant. In
1904, he traveled to Berlin to study philosophy, but set aside his
studies soon and began a career as a professional chess player that
same year. He won his first international tournament at Munich
1906. Then, he tied for first with Alexander Alekhine at St.
Petersburg 1913-1914 (the eighth All-Russian Masters' Tournament).
During the 1917 Russian Revolution, Nimzowitsch was in the Baltic
war zone. He escaped being drafted into one of the armies by
feigning madness, insisting that a fly was on his head. He then
escaped to Berlin, and gave his first name as Arnold, possibly to
avoid anti-Semitic persecution.
Nimzowitsch eventually moved to Copenhagen in 1922, which coincided
with his rise to the world chess elite, where he lived for the rest
of his life in one small rented room. In Copenhagen, he won twice
Nordic Chess Championship in 1924 and 1934. He obtained Danish
citizenship and lived in Denmark, until his death in 1935. Although
he had long suffered from heart trouble, his early death was
unexpected, taken ill suddenly at the end of 1934, he lay bedridden
for three months before dying of pneumonia. He is buried in
Bispebjerg Cemetery in Copenhagen.
++1.B Chess career
The height of Nimzowitsch's career was the late 1920s and early
1930s. Chessmetrics places him as the third best player in the
world, behind Alexander Alekhine and Jose Capablanca, from 1927 to
1931. His most notable successes were first-place finishes at
Copenhagen 1923, Marienbad 1925, Dresden 1926, Hannover 1926, and
the Carlsbad 1929 chess tournament, and second place behind
Alekhine at the San Remo 1930 chess tournament. Nimzowitsch never
developed a knack for match play, though; his best match success
was a draw with Alekhine, but the match was only two games long and
was in 1914, thirteen years before Alekhine became world champion.
Nimzowitsch never won against Capablanca, but fared better against
Alekhine. He even beat Alekhine with the black pieces, in their
short 1914 match at St. Petersburg. One of Nimzowitsch's most
famous games is his celebrated immortal zugzwang game against
Saemisch at Copenhagen 1923. Another game on this theme is his win
over Paul Johner at Dresden 1926. When in form, Nimzowitsch was
very dangerous with the black pieces, scoring many fine wins over
top players.
++1.C Legacy
Nimzowitsch is considered one of the most important players and
writers in chess history. His works influenced numerous other
players, including Savielly Tartakower, Milan Vidmar, Richard Reti,
Akiba Rubinstein, Bent Larsen, and Tigran Petrosian, and his
influence is still felt today.
He wrote three books on chess strategy: Mein System (My System),
1925, Die Praxis meines Systems (The Practice of My System), 1929,
commonly known as Chess Praxis, and Die Blockade (The Blockade),
1925. The last of these has just been reissued in a volume
containing both the German original and the English translation
published by Hardinge Simpole. However, much that is in it is
covered again in Mein System. It is said that 99 out of 100 chess
masters have read Mein System; consequently, most consider it to be
Nimzowitsch's greatest contribution to chess. It sets out
Nimzowitsch's most important ideas, while his second most
influential work, Chess Praxis, elaborates upon these ideas, adds
a few new ones, and has immense value as a stimulating collection
of Nimzowitsch's own games, even when these games are more
entertaining than instructive.
Nimzowitsch's chess theories flew in the face of convention. While
there were those like Alekhine, Emanuel Lasker, and even Capablanca
who did not live by Tarrasch's rigid teachings, the acceptance of
Tarrasch's ideas, all simplifications of the more profound work of
Wilhelm Steinitz, was nearly universal. That the center had to be
controlled by pawns and that development had to happen in support
of this control -- the core ideas of Tarrasch's chess philosophy --
were things every beginner thought to be irrefutable laws of
nature, like gravity.
Nimzowitsch shattered these assumptions. He discovered such
concepts as overprotection (the least important of his ideas from
a modern standpoint though still interesting and sometimes
applicable), control of the center by pieces instead of pawns,
blockade, and prophylaxis -- playing to prevent the opponent's
plans. He was also a leading advocate and exponent of the
fianchetto development of the bishops. Nimzowitsch also formalised
strategies using open files, outposts and invasion of the seventh
rank, all of which are widely accepted today. Others had utilized
such ideas in previous years, but he was the first to knit them
together into a cohesive whole.
Grandmaster (GM) Raymond Keene writes that Nimzowitsch "was one of
the world's leading Grandmasters for a period extending over a
quarter of a century, and for some of that time he was the obvious
challenger for the world championship. ... (He was also) a great
and profound chess thinker, second only to Steinitz, and his works-
Die Blockade, My System and Chess Praxis-established his reputation
as one of the father figures of modern chess." GM Robert Byrne
called him "perhaps the most brilliant theoretician and teacher in
the history of the game." GM Jan Hein Donner called Nimzowitsch "a
man who was too much of an artist to be able to prove he was right
and who was regarded as something of a madman in his time. He would
be understood only long after his death."
Many chess openings and variations are named after Nimzowitsch, the
most famous being the Nimzo-Indian Defence (1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3.
Nc3 Bb4) and the less often played Nimzowitsch Defence (1. e4 Nc6).
Nimzowitsch biographer Grandmaster Raymond Keene and others have
referred to 1. f4 followed by 2. b3 as the Nimzowitsch-Larsen
Attack. Keene wrote a book about the opening with that title. All
of these openings exemplify Nimzowitsch's ideas about controlling
the center with pieces instead of pawns. Nimzowitsch was also vital
in the development of two important systems in the French Defence,
the Winawer Variation (in some places called the Nimzowitsch
Variation; its moves are 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4) and the
Advance Variation (1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5). He also pioneered two
provocative variations of the Sicilian Defence, both regarded as
dubious today: the Nimzowitsch Variation, 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nf6,
which invites 3. e5 Nd5, similarly to Alekhine's Defence, and 1. e4
c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 d5?!
++1.D Personality
There are many entertaining anecdotes regarding Nimzowitsch--some
less savory than others. For example, he once missed the first
prize of a great rapid transit tournament in Berlin by losing to
Sdmisch; immediately upon learning this, Nimzowitsch got up on a
table and shouted "Gegen diesen Idioten muss ich verlieren!" ("That
I should lose to this idiot!").
Nimzowitsch was annoyed by his opponents' smoking. A popular, but
probably apocryphal, story is that once when an opponent laid a
cigar on the table, he complained to the tournament arbiters, "he
is threatening to smoke, and as an old player you must know that
the threat is stronger than the execution".
Nimzowitsch had lengthy and somewhat bitter dogmatic conflicts with
Tarrasch over whose ideas constituted 'proper' chess.
Nimzowitsch's vanity and faith in his ideas of overprotection
provoked Hans Kmoch to write a parody about him in February 1928 in
the Wiener Schachzeitung. This consisted of a mock game against the
fictional player "Systemsson", supposedly played and annotated by
Nimzowitsch himself. The annotations gleefully exaggerate the idea
of overprotection, as well as asserting the true genius of the
wondrous idea. Kmoch was in fact a great admirer of Nimzowitsch,
and the subject of the parody himself was amused at the effort.
Kmoch also wrote an article about his nine years with
Nimzowitsch:
Nimzovich suffered from the delusion that he was unappreciated and
that the reason was malice. All it took to make him blossom, as I
later learned, was a little praise. His paranoia was most evident
when he dined in company. He always thought he was served much
smaller portions than everyone else. He didn't care about the
actual amount but only about the imagined affront. I once suggested
that he and I order what the other actually wanted and, when the
food was served, exchange plates. After we had done so, he shook
his head in disbelief, still thinking that he had received the
smaller portion.
Nimzovitsch's colleague Tartakower observed of him, "He pretends to
be crazy in order to drive us all crazy."
++1.E Notable chess games
* Friedrich Saemisch vs Aron Nimzowitsch, Copenhagen 1923,
Queen's Indian Defence (E18), 0-1 The "Immortal Zugzwang
Game" sees Saemisch get tied up in knots.
* Paul Johner vs Aron Nimzowitsch, Dresden 1926, NimzoIndian
Defence, Rubinstein Variation (E47), 0-1 One of
Nimzowitsch's most famous games sees White fall deep into
passivity and get squeezed.
* Milan Vidmar vs Aron Nimzowitsch, New York 1927, Bogo-
Indian Defence (E11), 0-1 A crafty blending of strategy and
tactics.
* Richard Reti vs Aron Nimzowitsch, Berlin 1928, Nimzo-Indian
Defence (E38), 0-1 Two of the top hypermoderns cross swords
to showcase their latest ideas.
* Efim Bogoljubov vs Aron Nimzowitsch, San Remo 1930,
NimzoIndian Defence, Bogoljubov Variation (E23), 0-1
Another encounter of hypermodern heavyweights sees
Nimzowitsch with two knights in the endgame, and he handles
them perfectly.
++2. Siegbert Tarrasch
Siegbert Tarrasch (March 5, 1862 - February 17, 1934) was one of
the strongest chess players and most influential chess teachers of
the late 19th century and early 20th century.
Tarrasch was born in Breslau, Prussian Silesia. Having finished
school in 1880, he left Breslau to study medicine in Halle. Later
he lived most of his life with his family in Nuremberg, Bavaria,
and later in Munich. He had five children. Tarrasch was Jewish,
converted to Christianity in 1909, and a patriotic German who lost
a son in World War I. Yet he faced antisemitism in the early stages
of Nazism.
Tarrasch was a highly esteemed chess writer. It was Tarrasch who
wrote in his Preface to The Game of Chess (1931) that oft repeated
line: " Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men
happy. "
++2.A Chess career
A medical doctor by profession, Tarrasch may have been the best
player in the world in the early 1890s. He scored heavily against
the aging Steinitz in tournaments, (+3-0=1), but refused an
opportunity to challenge for the world title in 1892 because of the
demands of his medical practice. Soon afterwards, Tarrasch drew a
hard-fought match against Steinitz' challenger Mikhail Chigorin
(+9-9=4). Tarrasch also won four major tournaments in succession:
Breslau 1889, Manchester 1890, Dresden 1892, and Leipzig 1894.
However, after Emmanuel Lasker became world chess champion in 1894,
Tarrasch could not match him. Fred Reinfeld wrote: "Tarrasch was
destined to play second fiddle for the rest of his life." For
example, Lasker scored much better against common opponents, e.g.
vs. Chigorin, Tarrasch had +2 over 34 games while Lasker scored +7
in 21; vs. Akiba Rubinstein Tarrasch was -8 without a single win,
while Lasker scored +2-1=2; vs. David Janowski Tarrasch scored +3
compared to Lasker's huge +22; vs. Giza Marsczy, Tarrasch was +1
over 16 games while Lasker scored +4-0=1, vs. Richard Teichmann
Tarrasch scored +8-5=2, while Lasker beat him all four tournament
games. However, Tarrasch had a narrow plus score against Harry
Nelson Pillsbury of +6-5=2, while Lasker was even +5-5=4. However,
Tarrasch remained a powerful player, demolishing Frank Marshall in
a match in 1905 (+8-1=8), and winning Ostend 1907 over Schlechter,
Janowski, Marshall, Burn, and Chigorin.
There was no love lost between the two masters. The story goes that
when they were introduced at the opening of their 1908 championship
match, Tarrasch clicked his heels, bowed stiffly, and said, "To
you, Dr. Lasker, I have only three words, check and mate" -- then
left the room. When Lasker finally agreed to a title match in 1908,
he beat Tarrasch convincingly +8-3=5.
Tarrasch continued to be one of the leading players in the world
for a while. He finished fourth in the very strong Saint Petersburg
tournament of 1914, behind only World Champion Lasker and future
World Champions Jose Razl Capablanca and Alexander Alekhine, and
ahead of Marshall, Ossip Bernstein, Rubinstein,
Nimzowitsch, Blackburne, Janowski, and Gunsberg. His win against
Capablanca in the 19th round, though much less famous than Lasker's
win against Capablanca the round before, was essential to enable
Lasker to achieve his famous come-from-behind victory over
Capablanca in the tournament. This tournament was probably
Tarrasch's swan song, because his chess career was not very
successful after this, although he still played some highly
regarded games.
++2.B Chess teachings
Tarrasch was a very influential chess writer, and was called
Praeceptor Germaniae, meaning "Teacher of Germany." He was editor
of the magazine Deutsche Schachzeitung in 1897 and wrote several
books, including Die moderne Schachpartie and Three hundred chess
games. Although his teachings became famous throughout the chess
world, until recently his books had not been translated into
English.
He took some of Wilhelm Steinitz's ideas (e.g. control of the
center, bishop pair, space advantage) and made them more accessible
to the average chess player. In other areas he departed from
Steinitz. He emphasized piece mobility much more than Steinitz did,
and disliked cramped positions, saying that they "had the germ of
defeat."
Tarrasch stated what is known as the Tarrasch rule, that rooks
should be placed behind passed pawns - either yours or your
opponent's. Andrew Soltis quotes Tarrasch as saying
" Always put the rook behind the pawn.... Except when it is
incorrect to do so."
++2.C Clash with hypermodern school
He was a great target of the hypermodern school, led by Richard
Reti, Aron Nimzowitsch, and Savielly Tartakower, all of whom
criticized his ideas as dogmatic. However, many modern masters
regard Tarrasch's actual play as not dogmatic. For example,
Tarrasch annotated his victory on the Black side of the Advance
French against Paulsen (Nuremberg 1888):
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Nf3 Qb6 6. Bd3 cxd4
(Tarrasch gives this an exclamation mark, and points out that 6 ...
Bd7 allows 7. dxc5 with a good game. However, most accounts credit
Nimzovitch with such anti-dogmatic hypermodern inventiveness when
he played 7. dxc5 against Gersz Salwe almost a quarter of a century
later (Karlsbad 1911) in this game) 7. cxd4 Bd7 8. Be2 Nge7 9. b3
Nf5 10. Bb2 Bb4+ 11. Kf1 Be7 12. g3 a5 13. a4 Rc8 14. Bb5 Nb4 15.
Bxd7+ Kxd7 16. Nc3 Nc6 17. Nb5 Na7 18. Nxa7 Qxa7 19. Qd3 Qa6 20.
Qxa6 bxa6 21. Kg2 Rc2 22. Bc1 Rb8 23. Rb1 Rc3 24. Bd2 Rcxb3 25.
Rxb3 Rxb3 26. Bxa5 Rb2 27. Bd2 Bb4 28. Bf4 h6 29. g4 Ne7 30. Ra1
Nc6 31. Bc1 Rc2 32. Ba3 Rc4 33. Bb2 Bc3 34. Bxc3 Rxc3 35. Rb1 Kc7
36. g5 Rc4 37. gxh6 gxh6 38. a5 Ra4 39. Kg3 Rxa5 40. Kg4 Ra3 41.
Rd1 Rb3 42. h4 Ne7 43. Ne1 Nf5 44. Nd3 a5 45. Nc5 Rc3 46. Rb1 Nxd4
47. Na6+ Kd8 48. Rb8+ Rc8 49. Rb7 Ke8 50. Nc7+ Kf8 51. Nb5 Nxb5 52.
Rxb5 Ra8 53. f4 a4 54. Rb1 a3 55. f5 a2 56. Ra1 Ra4+ 57. Kh5 Kg7
58. fxe6 fxe6 59. Rg1+ Kh8 60. Ra1 Kh7 61. Rg1 a1=Q 62. Rg7+ Kh8
0-1
++2.D Contribution to opening theory
A number of chess openings are named after Tarrasch, with the most
notable being:
* The Tarrasch Defense, Tarrasch's favorite line against the
Queen's Gambit.
* The Tarrasch Variation of the French Defence (3. Nd2),
which Tarrasch considered refuted by 3...c5, although this
is certainly not thought so today.
* The Tarrasch Variation of the Ruy Lopez, also sometimes
known as the Open Defence (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4
Nf6 5.0-0 Nxe4).
++2.E Famous Tarrasch combinations
Diagram:
White: King at g1, Queen at f3, Rooks at c1 and c2, Bishop at e5,
Pawns at a5, b3, d3, f4, g2, h2
Black: King at b5, Queen at d7, Rooks at c8 and g8, Bishop at h6,
Pawns at a6, b4, c5, d4, h7
Tarrasch versus Allies, Naples 1914
In the game Tarrasch versus Allies, Black seems to be holding here
(at least against immediate catastrophe), because the black queen
guards against Qb7+ (followed by Kxa5 Ra1#), while the black rook
on c8 defends against Rxc5#. Tarrasch played the ingenious
interference move 31. Bc7! (known as a Plachutta interference
because the pieces both move orthogonally). This blocks off both
defences, and whatever piece captures becomes overloaded. That is,
if 31. ... Rxc7, the rook is overloaded, having to look after both
the key squares, since the queen is blocked from b7. So White would
play 32. Qb7+ Rxb7, deflecting the rook from defence of c5,
allowing 33. Rxc5#. But if Black plays instead 31. ... Qxc7, the
queen blocks off the rook's defence of c5 and becomes overloaded:
32. Rxc5+ Qxc5 deflects the queen from defence of b7, allowing 33.
Qb7+ Kxa5 34. Ra1#. Black actually resigned after this move.
Diagram:
White: King at g1, Queen at d3, Rooks at f2 and f4, Bishop at b2,
Knights at d2 and f5, Pawns at a4, b3, c2, g3, h2
Black: King at h8, Queen at e5, Rooks at g5 and g8, Bishops at d5
and d8, Knight at h5, Pawns at a6, b4, c5, d4, h7
Tarrasch versus Walbrodt, Hastings 1895
In the game against Walbrodt, Tarrasch played rather poorly, and
his opponent had the better of it for a long time. But the game is
redeemed by the following startling combination:
34. Rxd4 seems obvious, because 34. ... cxd4 allows 35. Bxd4
winning the queen. But Black has a seemingly strong counterattack
which had to be foreseen ... 34. ... Nxg3 35. Nxg3 Rxg3+ 36. hxg3
Rxg3+ 37. Kf1! Rxd3 and now the startling 38. Rg4!! with
devastating threats of 39. Rf8+ mating and Bxe5 not to mention cxd3
to follow. Black resigned.
++3. Aron Nomzowitsch - Siegbert Tarrasch
St. Petersburg 1914
White: Aron Nimzowitsch
Black: Siegbert Tarrasch
Result: 0-1
ECO: D30 - Queen's Gambit Declined, Systems without Nc3
Notes by R.J. Macdonald
1. d4 d5
2. Nf3 c5
3. c4
(The Queen's Gambit.)
3. ... e6
(The Queen's Gambit declined.)
4. e3 Nf6
(5. Nc3 would lead to more typical Queen's Gambit Declined
variations.)
5. Bd3 Nc6
6. 0-0 Bd6
7. b3 0-0
8. Bb2 b6
9. Nbd2 Bb7
10. Rc1
(Also possible is 10. Qc2 h6 11. h3 Nb4 12. Qc3 Nxd3 13. Qxd3 Ne4
14. a3 Qc7 15. Ne5 Nxd2 16. Qxd2 Rad8 17. a4 Bxe5 18. dxe5 dxc4 19.
Qc3 cxb3 20. Qxb3 Qc6 21. f3 c4 22. Qb5 Qd5 23. Bd4 Rc8 24. Bc3
Rfd8 0-1 in 51 moves, as int he game J. Muheim - A. Schneider, St.
Chely d'Aubrac 2008)
10. ... Qe7
11. cxd5!?
(White can also continue 11. Ne5 Rfd8 12. cxd5 exd5 13. Nxc6 Bxc6
14. Qe2 Ne4 15. Rfd1 Rac8 16. Nf1 Rc7 17. Rc2 c4 18. Bxe4 Qxe4 19.
Rdc1 b5 20. Ng3 Qg6 21. Qd2 f5 22. Bc3 Re8 23. Bb4 Bxb4 24. Qxb4
Qf7 25. Qd2 g6 1/2-1/2 in 47 moves, as in the game G. Fontein - H.
Norman Hansen, Scheveningen 1923. Also possible is 11. Re1 cxd4 12.
exd4 Rac8 with equality.)
11. ... exd5
12. Nh4
(12. a3 Rfe8 offers equal chances.)
12. ... g6
(This gives black a slight advantage, with control of f5.)
13. Nhf3 Rad8
14. dxc5 bxc5
15. Bb5
(Black now has an active position. 15. a3 Ng4 16. Qe2 Qc7 gives
black a slight advantage.)
15. ... Ne4
(15. ... a6 16. Be2 gives black a slight advantage)
16. Bxc6
(16. a3!? is a noteworthy alternative.)
16. ... Bxc6
(Black has a moderate advantage.)
17. Qc2 Nxd2
(17. ... Bb5!? 18. Rfd1 f6 gives black a moderate advantage.)
18. Nxd2
(Black is moderately better.)
18. ... d4
(Better is 18. ... Rc8, giving black a slight advantage.)
Key Move Diagram:
3r1rk1/
p3qp1p/
2bb2p1/
2p5/
3p4/
1P2P3/
PBQN1PPP/
2R2RK1
Position after black's 18th move.
19. exd4??
(19. g3! is much better: 19. ... Rfe8 20. Nc4, and black ss
slightly better.)
19. ... Bxh2+
(19. ... Bxg2 seems even better: 20. f4 Bxf1 21. Rxf1 Bxf4 22. Nc4
cxd4 23. Qf2 should be decisive for black.)
20. Kxh2 Qh4+
21. Kg1 Bxg2
22. f3
(22. Kxg2 - praying for a miracle - Qg4+ 23. Kh2, but black should
still win.)
22. ... Rfe8
23. Ne4
(23. Kxg2?? is refuted by the following mate in 3: 23. ... Re2+ 24.
Rf2 Rxf2+ 25. Kg1 Qh2#)
23. ... Qh1+
(23. ... Bxf1?! is useless because of 24. d5 (24. dxc5? fails to
Rd3 25. Nf6+ Kf8 26. Rxf1 Qg3+ 27. Qg2 Qxg2+ 28. Kxg2 Re2+ 29. Kg3
Rxb2 and black should win.) 24. ... Rxe4 25. Qxe4 with equal
chances.)
24. Kf2 Bxf1
25. d5
(The White Queen is lost on 25. Rxf1 Qh2+, and 25. Nf6+ Kf8 26.
Nxe8 Qg2+ 27. Ke3 Rxe8+ 28. Kf4 g5+ 29. Kf5 Qxc2+ 30. Rxc2 Bd3+
leaves Black with an extra Rook.)
25. ... f5
26. Qc3
(26. a4 hardly improves anything: 26. ... fxe4 27. Rxf1 Qh2+ 28.
Ke3 Qxc2 29. Rg1 Rxd5 30. Rd1 Qxb3+ 31. Rd3 Qxd3+ 32. Kf2 Qxf3+ 33.
Kg1 Rd2 34. Be5 Qg2#)
26. ... Qg2+
27. Ke3 Rxe4+
28. fxe4
Key Move Diagram:
3r2k1/
p6p/
6p1/
2pP1p2/
4P3/
1PQ1K3/
PB4q1/
2R2b2
Position after white's 28th move.
28. ... f4+!
(Pinning f6.)
29. Kxf4 Rf8+
30. Ke5
(30. Qf6 does not work because of 30. ... g5+ 31. Kf5 Qh3+ 32. Ke5
Qh2+ 33. Ke6 Rxf6+ 34. Kxf6 Qf4+ 35. Ke7 Bh3 36. Kd8 Qd6+ 37. Ke8
Qd7#)
30. ... Qh2+
31. Ke6
(31. Qg3 is fruitless: 31. ... Qxg3+ 32. Ke6 Bh3+ 33. Ke7 Qc7#)
31. ... Re8+
32. Kd7 Bb5#
0-1
==========
The blind-chess mailing list
View list information and change your settings: //www.freelists.org/list/blind-chess
List archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/blind-chess
=========
Other related posts:
- » [blind-chess] Annotated Game #026: Aron Nimzowitsh - Siegbert Tarrasch, St. Petersburg 1914 - Roderick Macdonald
