Today on June 17, 2019 is the 90th birth anniversary of the 9th World Chess Champion Tigran Petrosian! On that occasion in today’s video decided to cover one of the brilliant games played by Petrosian! In this game Petrosian is White and is playing against Hungarian chess player Pal Benko! In Nimzo-Indian Defense Benko erroneously allows Petrosian to grab the initiative in the center after which is starting to face serious problems! Petrosian’s attack turns out to be irresistible and his passed pawns help him to achieve victory! In the end of the video as usual you can solve the daily puzzle!
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Tigran Petrosian vs Pal Benko
HUN-URS (1955), Budapest HUN, rd 7
Nimzo-Indian Defense: Saemisch Variation (E26)
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Nc6
7. Bd3 b6 8. e4 e5 9. d5 Na5 10. Nf3 Qe7 11. O-O Ba6 12. Nh4
g6 13. f4 O-O-O 14. Nf3 d6 15. fxe5 dxe5 16. Bg5 h6 17. Bh4
Rd6 18. Nxe5 Qxe5 19. Bg3 Qe7 20. e5 Rd7 21. Rxf6 h5 22. h4
Bb7 23. Qa4 Rg8 24. Raf1 Rg7 25. d6 Qd8 26. e6 Rxd6 27. Bxd6
1-0
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