Joanthan Rowson has put this effort of mine in his column
in the latest New in Chess
I'm laughing my head off thinking of all the readers
playing over one of my games from 1978.
And then I'm thinking of the law suits I'll be getting
when these guys put it into their chess engines and it
blows up their computers.
The Game.
My opponent played 1.b3 and right away I thought:
"Larsen-Spassky 1970" where Spassky played a brilliant game.
So that put me in the mood.
(it's good to have a head full of classic games, they inspire you.
I give a link at the bottom of the page where you will see this
great Spassky game in full with comments by Kasparov).
Back to my game.
White made the mistake of NOT playing Bb2 and every
trick and stunt I pull after that is aimed at the a1 Rook
and the soft spot f2.
Infact the Bishop never did go to b2.
My 6...Nc6 (position below) was me still under the spell of the Spassky game.
I could not resist it. He can only take one piece, let's confuse him
My 'attack' was pettering out, just a few tricks left
when we reached this position White to play.
Mmmm. Look at that Black development. Everbody in action.
I got that from 200 Miniatures by Du Mont.
I must have done.
At that time it was really the only book I did cover to cover.
One thing you learn from playing out the games in that book.
Develop your pieces, slackers get tacically walloped.
(and you get 200 lessons how to do it).
I've digressed... back to the game.
He spent about 10-15 minutes looking at 0-0 and all the
sacs that were coming his way. I don't think any of them work.
And then a common mistake we all make.
We spend ages looking at a move, reject it and play something
else without a moments thought.
I have won a few games like this.
My opponent has taken a tactical battering and just when it's
all over, one move from safety, they blunder.
He sat back, puffed out cheeks, shrugged his shoulders played 16.0-0-0
Go and get inspired.
