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Spassky-Bronstein++[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
George Duke wrote on Wed, Feb 6, 2013 10:42 PM UTC:
After the brilliancy 9 ...Bxh2,
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1100774, how about a different
take '14 Rxg1...'?

This score won't stand up to scrutiny either, even when the above correction turns out not to be the last word.  At that juncture above,
after taking the Bishop, Black has only 2 pieces in the vicinity to White's five or six pieces.  They just have to be handled right.

Recall, the feature of this one, as actually played, is Black's willingly going down four pieces eventually for checkmate by h-Pawn.

This has been widely written about, http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/najdorf.html, and it does happen that first try 14 Rxg1... won't work because of 14 ...Q-h2 then 15 ...Q-f2. So where does White go wrong? (just before that)