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No More Queen Sacrifices! Petrosian’s Queen Is Dancing

July 28, 2021 NHaselton Chess Lectures

Chess with SurenWed, July 28, 2021 1:54pmURL:
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Tigran Petrosian plays the hypermodern King’s Indian defense and with a fierce combinatorial style destroys the sharp Saemisch variation!!
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Borge Andersen vs Tigran V Petrosian
Nimzowitsch Memorial (1960), Copenhagen DEN
King’s Indian Defense: Saemisch. Closed Variation 7…c6 (E88)
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 c6 6.Be3 e5 7.d5 O-O
8.Qd2 cxd5 9.cxd5 a6 10.O-O-O b5 11.Kb1 Nbd7 12.Rc1 Nb6 13.Nd1
Nfd7 14.g4 f5 15.gxf5 gxf5 16.Bd3 Nf6 17.Rc6 Nc4 18.Bxc4 bxc4
19.Nc3 fxe4 20.fxe4 Nxe4 21.Nxe4 Rf1+ 22.Kc2 Bf5 23.Qg2 Qh4
24.Rxc4 Qe1 25.Kd3 Rb8 26.Qc2 Qa5 27.Bd2 Qxd5+ 28.Ke2 Rf8
29.Nf3
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Video Thumbnail Credits:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tigran_Petrosian_1962.jpg
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