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Be very wary of "going for the win" as Black. Your chances of doing so are best if you adopt a measured approach and at least equalize first
Graham Burgess
Graham Burgess
Originally posted by Ulysses72I've posted this before, but that won't stop me from doing it again - Roy Brown, who played for Hackney Chess Club many years ago, used to say:
Here are some that I like more...
Efim Bogoljubov
“When I am White, I win because I am White. When I am Black, I win because I am Bogoljubov”.
Originally posted by Fat LadyGames like this one, Fat Lady, they make me sure that chess is too advanced concept of art to enjoy it just for a lifetimeπ΅
And here is that very game:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1139685
The knight sac is 19. Nxg7.
[pgn]
[Event "Kiev URS ch"]
[Site "4"]
[Date "1964.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Evgeni Vasiukov"]
[ECO "B17"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "115"]
1.e4 c6 2.Nc3 d5 3. ...[text shortened]... Rd8+ Ke7 54.Rd3 Be2 55.Bd8+
Ke8 56.Rd2 Re3 57.Bg5 Bd3 58.f5 1-0
[/pgn]
Originally posted by Fat Ladyoh em gee....
I've posted this before, but that won't stop me from doing it again - Roy Brown, who played for Hackney Chess Club many years ago, used to say:
"When I am White I win because I am White. When I am Black I win because I am Brown".