Reshevsky Makes His Opponent And Spectators Gasp For Air

January 4, 2021 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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My last round game with Vasconcellos confounded the critics who frequently said I didn’t and couldn’t play imaginative chess. I cut loose with a hair-raising sacrificial attack which had the spectators (and my opponent) gasping. I consider it one of my best games. – Samuel Reshevsky
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Samuel Reshevsky vs Arnaldo Vasconcellos
45th US Open (1944), Boston, MA USA, rd 17, Aug-10
French Defense: Advance Variation (C02)
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. dxc5 Nd7 5. Nf3 Bxc5 6. Bd3 Ne7
7. O-O Nc6 8. Bf4 Qc7 9. Nc3 a6 10. Re1 Qb6 11. Bg3 Qxb2
12. Nxd5 exd5 13. Rb1 Qa3 14. e6 Nf6 15. exf7+ Kxf7 16. Bh4
Nb4 17. Ne5+ Kf8 18. Bxf6 Nxd3 19. Bxg7+ Kxg7 20. Rxb7+ Be7
21. Qh5 Rf8 22. Qg5+ Kh8 23. Ng6+ hxg6 24. Qh6+ Kg8 25. Qxg6+
Kh8 26. Rbxe7
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