Amazing performance

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).

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).

[pgn][Date "1935.??.??"]
[Result "1-0"]
[FEN "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RN ...[text shortened]... 38.Qf5+ Kc6 39.d5+ Kc5 40.Ba3+ Kxc4 41.Qe4+ Kc3 42.Bb4+ Kb2 43.Qb1#
1-0[/pgn]

I would also have done things differently to the 3 time world champion.

Fantastic game. If you took the name off the white side I reckon most people would say it's one of Tal's.

The rook sac on move 32 was very creative.

Originally posted by vivify
The rook sac on move 32 was very creative.

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.