The Most Fantastic Game Played in World Championship Matches. Bronstein vs Botvinnik 1951. Game 18
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- čas přidán 9. 03. 2023
- The 18th game of 1951 world chess championship match was so unusual, that grandmaster Fine called it the most fantastic of all games played in matches for the world championship, from La Bourdonnais to Mikhail Tal! David Bronstein intuitively sacrificed a piece, getting three far advanced connected passed pawns. However, he made a mistake in a winning position and Mikhail Botvinnik found a paradoxical defensive move, that miraculously saved the seemingly hopeless position.
1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 e6 5. e3 a6 6. Bd3 b5 7. b3 Nbd7 8. O-O Bb7 9. c5 Be7 10. a3 a5 11. Bb2 O-O 12. Qc2 g6 13. b4 axb4 14. axb4 Qc7 15. Rae1 Rfe8 16. Ne2 Bf8 17. h3 Bg7 18. Ne5 Nf8 19. f3 N6d7 20. f4 f6 21. Nf3 Re7 22. Nc3 f5 23. Ra1 Ree8 24. Ne5 Rxa1 25. Rxa1 Ra8 26. Qb1 Qc8 27. Bxb5 Nxe5 28. fxe5 Bh6 29. Bc1 cxb5 30. Nxb5 Nd7 31. Nd6 Rxa1 32. Qxa1 Qa8 33. Qc3 Bf8 34. b5 Bxd6 35. exd6 Qa4 36. Qb2 Kf7 37. Kh2 h6 38. e4 f4 39. e5 g5 40. Qe2 Kg7 41. Qd3 Nb8 42. h4 Qc4 43. Qh3 Qxb5 44. hxg5 hxg5 45. Qxe6 Qd3 46. Qf6+ Kh7 47. Qf7+ Kh8 48. Qf6+ Kh7 49. Bxf4 gxf4 50. Qf7+ Kh8 51. Qe8+ Kg7 52. Qe7+ Kh8 53. Qe8+ Kg7 54. Qe7+ Kh8 55. Qf8+ Kh7 56. Qf7+ Kh8 57. Qxb7 Qg3+ 58. Kh1 1/2-1/2
Wow, what a game!
Excellent sacrifice:) and one small inaccuracy queen, the champion plays the defense of his position as if in a trance!
How great this match for the championship title was and somewhat forgotten by today's commentators, with your excellent comments and analysis, you brought this brilliant match to life!
Bronstein is not very familiar to me but apparently he was a very strong player.
This is an excellent chess channel. Explanations are clear and game goes on
Thanks so much for covering this fantastic match. I’ve never come across any CZcams channel covering this fascinating match.
My pleasure.
This is a very much overlooked match so much thanks for covering it so well.
My pleasure.
An interesting game with a lot of great ideas. Switching back and forth from king-attacking to queen-side pawn pushes was intriguing. Ultimately the open kings were both subject to game-ending harassment. This reminds me of the Lasker-Pillsbury 1893 game where the future World Champion did in fact find the necessary bishop sacrifice after some maneuvering and used his passed pawns decisively, as opposed to playing a more reserved move and missing the win, amongst other notable games of this sort
Cheers
Thanks for mentioning this game, just played it through, indeed the same idea is executed in a more decisive and successful way. I'm actually planning to make a video on 2 games between Lasker and Pillsbury soon - Lasker's great rook sacrifice and Pillsbury's great revenge in the same opening 8 years afterwards.
Excellent choice of games. The most famous encounters between those two. Shame they never played a match.
Good day. Looking forward to your next video
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Shouldn’t White rather go for the bishop and end with Queen on c7? Four moves for black king to get to pawn, three moves for white bishop to get to or else dislodge black knight.
In this case White gets only the slight advantage, not enough for the victory. As soon as the white bishop attacks the knight, it would retreat to c8, preventing the pawn from promoting.
Of course! apologies!
Shit I wasted 23 minutes for a draw match 🤮