1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6 5.Be3
Nf6 6.Nc3 Bg7 7.Bc4 0-0 7...Qa5!
would have been much better. 8.Bb3
Na5 A well-known mistake - a Russian chess magazine had recently given the
following
moves, known to Fischer,
but not to Reshevsky! 9.e5 Ne8 Breaking communications between the Queen
and Rook. On the other hand, 9...Nxb3
loses to 10.exf6. 10.Bxf7+ Kxf7 The 15-year-old Fischer has found the fatal
flaw in Reshevsky's position.
[10...Rxf7 11.Ne6] 1
1.Ne6 dxe6 [11...Kxe6 12.Qd5+ Kf5 13.g4+
Kxg4 14.Rg1+ Kh4 15.Bg5+ Kh5 16.Qd1+ Rf3 17.Qxf3#]
12.Qxd8 The rest is child's play... 12...Nc6 13.Qd2 Bxe5 14.0-0 Nd6
15.Bf4 Nc4 16.Qe2 Bxf4 17.Qxc4 Kg7 18.Ne4
Bc7 19.Nc5 Rf6 20.c3 e5 21.Rad1 Nd8 22.Nd7 Rc6 23.Qh4 Re6 24.Nc5 Rf6 25.Ne4
Rf4
26.Qxe7+ Rf7 27.Qa3 Nc6 28.Nd6
Bxd6 29.Rxd6 Bf5 30.b4 Rff8 31.b5 Nd8 32.Rd5 Nf7 3
3.Rc5 a6 34.b6 Be4 35.Re1 Bc6 36.Rxc6 bxc6 37.b7 Rab8 38.Qxa6
Nd8 39.Rb1 Rf7 40.h3 Rfxb7 41.Rxb7+ Rxb7
42.Qa8 And Black finally gave up. 1-0
1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 d6
4.Nf3 Nf6 5.Be2 0-0 6.0-0
This is the Classical Pirc, an opening in which Black concedes
the center in return for rapid development, hoping to strike back later.
6...Nc6 7.d5 Nb8 8.Re1 e5 9.dxe6 Bxe6 10.Bf4 h6 11.Nd4 Bd7 12.Qd2 Kh7 13.e5
dxe5 14.Bxe5 Ne4 15.Nxe4 Bxe5 16.Nf3 Bg7 17.Rad1 Qc8 18.Bc4 Be8
Black's pieces are out of play, and although there are a few defenders
near the monarch, White's pieces can break through quickly. 19.Neg5+
White sacrifices a knight in order to shatter the pawn barrier protecting
the Black king.
19...hxg5 20.Nxg5+ Kg8 21.Qf4 There is now additional pressure at f7,
and the queen threatens to transfer to h4 from which it can deliver mate
at h7.
21...Nd7 Black plans to bring this knight to f6 to defend the critical f6
square.
But Tal puts paid to this plan with a simple and effective sacrifice. 22.Rxd7
Bxd7
23.Bxf7+ Here Black resigned, because the king gets mated if it moves to
the h-file but
capturing the bishop also leads to immediate disaster:
23...Rxf7 24.Qxf7+ Kh8 25.Qxg6 Bf5 26.Nf7+ Kg8 27.Nh6+ Kh8 28.Nxf5 Qg8 29.Re7
Bf8 30.Qh5+ 1-0
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Nge2 Giving Black the opportunity to win a pawn,
but the cost is very high. 4...dxe4
5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.Nxc3 f5 So Black has a pawn, but
White has a big lead in development and the dark squares around
Black's king are very weak. 7.f3 exf3 8.Qxf3 Qxd4
This is really asking for it, as Black must lose more time
with his queen and White can occupy the open d-file soon. 9.Qg3
A strong double attack White will take one of
the few defenders of the dark squares Black has left.
9...Nf6 10.Qxg7 Qe5+ 11.Be2 Rg8 12.Qh6 Rg6 13.Qh4 Bd7
14.Bg5 Bc6 15.0-0-0 Bxg2 Black is still greedy, but it doesn't matter anymore.
16.Rhe1 White threatens to win
Black's queen by a discovered attack. 16...Be4 17.Bh5 Now White's army overruns
Black in a blitzkrieg.
17...Nxh5 18.Rd8+ Kf7 19.Qxh5 Black resigned because he can't hold his h-pawn:
19...h6 20.Bxh6 and 21.Rf8+, 19...Qg7
20.Nxe4 fxe4 21.Rf1+. You can work out the win after
19...Kg7 for yourself, and verify it by playing against Gambit. 1-0
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 c5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3
b6 7.Bd3 Bb7 8.f3 Nc6 9.Ne2 0-0 10.0-0 Na5 While White is
gearing up for a kingside attack, Black calmly wins the pawn on c4. 11.e4
Ne8 Black avoids the nasty pin 12 Bg5
and prepares to meet 12 f4 by 12...f5. White's next move prevents this, but
takes another tempo. 12.Ng3 cxd4
13.cxd4 Rc8 14.f4 Nxc4 15.f5 f6 Black couldn't let White play 16 f6, when
16...Nxf6 17 Bg5 followed by 18 Nh5
would be just as bad as 16...gxf6 17.Nh5 and 18 Bh6 or letting White take
on g7. 16.Rf4 White gets ready to
break in on h7, but Euwe has seen that White will still be a long way from
mate. While Geller is getting ready
to hit h7, Euwe will get his own pieces into position to invade on the queenside.
16...b5 Now Black has b6 for
his queen, and it becomes apparent that White's king may come under long range
fire. 17.Rh4 Qb6 18.e5 Nxe5
19.fxe6 Nxd3 20.Qxd3 Qxe6 21.Qxh7+ Kf7 22.Bh6 Now White threatens 23 Nh5,
and it's not clear how Black will stop
this but... 22...Rh8 Geller must have missed this. Black gives up a whole
rook just to deflect the queen from
c2, and all of a sudden it's White who's getting mated. 23.Qxh8 Rc2 24.Rc1
Rxg2+ 25.Kf1 Qb3 26.Ke1 Qf3 0-1

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6
4.Bxc6 dxc6 5.0-0 f6 Usually advancing this pawn in the opening is a bad
idea, but
here it is appropriate because the pawn at e5 needs support. 6.d4 Bg4 7.dxe5
Qxd1 8.Rxd1 fxe5 This isolated
pawn, which can no longer be defended by a pawn on either side, is very
weak. 9.Rd3 Bd6 10.Nbd2 Nf6 11.Nc4 This
move, leading to the exchange of White's e-pawn for Black's, is harmless.
11 b3 is the only way to keep tension
in the position. 11...0-0 12.Nc*xe5 Bh5 Since White can't hold onto his
e-pawn anyway, Tal decides to keep the
bis
hop pair. 13.Bf4 Bxf3 This wins a piece, since 14 gxf3 or Rxf3 both fail to 14...Nh5. 0-1