Strong Grandmaster Gets Crushed By An Amateur During A Chess Simul

July 31, 2019 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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In this video I am analyzing a simultaneous chess game where Serbian and Yugoslav chess Grandmaster Svetozar Gligoric gets crushed by an amateur chess player named Holze! Holze plays an offbeat Elephant gambit, and soon by relying on opponent’s passive play, gets a ferocious attack! On move 19 Gligoric gets checkmated! In the end of the video as usual you can solve a chess puzzle! (Svetozar Gligoric vs Rodrigo Flores Alvarez, Mar del Plata, 1955)
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Svetozar Gligoric vs Holze
Simul (1970), Hamburg FRG
Elephant Gambit: Paulsen Countergambit (C40)
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d5 3.exd5 e4 4.Qe2 Nf6 5.Nc3 Be7 6.Nxe4 O-O 7.d3
Re8 8.Bd2 Nxd5 9.O-O-O Be6 10.Kb1 Nc6 11.Nc3 Bf6 12.Nxd5 Qxd5 13.c4 Qd6 14.Be3 b5 15.Qc2 Nb4 16.Qc1 bxc4 17.dxc4 Qa6 18.a3 Bf5+ 19.Ka1 Qxa3#
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