Saw this game at Chess.com. White is the definition of unorthodox here, with an unusual opening, and an odd way of getting black's king vulnerable; check the way White skips obvious captures in favor of position.
M. Botvinnik vs. V. Chekhover (Annotations not mine).
EVENT
Moscow
DATE
1935.??.??
WHITE
M. Botvinnik
BLACK
V. Chekhover
RESULT
1-0
ECO
A13
FEN
rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1
Originally posted by vivify Saw this game at Chess.com. White is the definition of unorthodox here, with an unusual opening, and an odd way of getting black's king vulnerable; check the way White skips obvious captures in favor of position.
M. Botvinnik vs. V. Chekhover (Annotations not mine).
White thinks differently from me, for I would have finished the game with 42.Re3+ Kd2 43.Qd3#. I did not even see the other mating idea. I believe I would have done other things differently too.
I haven't looked... but if my long term memory is correct that game is one of the games in Chernev's "The Russian's Play Chess". I remember being greatly impressed by the game at the time. The book is also a great book. It has diagrams every 5-10 moves so it is useful to go over the games without the use of a chess board. I don't know if it will work for other folks but studying like that helped improve my ability to visualize during OTB games.
22 Nov '12 20:57
Amazing performance
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