[Event "Olympiad-16 Final A"] [Site "Tel Aviv"] [Date "1964.11.14"] [Round "5"] [White "Benko, Pal C"] [Black "Ivkov, Borislav"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "D37"] [Annotator "Monokroussos,Dennis"] [PlyCount "48"] [EventDate "1964.11.10"] [EventType "team-tourn"] [EventRounds "13"] [EventCountry "ISR"] [SourceTitle "MCD"] [Source "ChessBase"] [SourceVersion "1"] [SourceQuality "1"] [WhiteTeam "US of America"] [BlackTeam "Yugoslavia"] [WhiteTeamCountry "USA"] [BlackTeamCountry "YUG"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bf4 O-O 6. e3 c5 7. dxc5 Qa5 8. Nd2 Qxc5 9. a3 dxc4 10. Bxc4 Rd8 11. Rc1 Nc6 12. b4 Qf5 13. Bg3 Nh5 {The position is equal, and would remain that way with the safe (and correct) 14.Nce4. Instead, Benko goes for a tactical adventure.} 14. Bc7 $2 Rd7 15. g4 Qf6 $2 ({ The paradoxical} 15... Qg6 $1 {was correct. White can take the knight with tempo, but the subsequent 16...Qg2 solves all Black's problems (and then some). } 16. gxh5 (16. b5 $2 {makes no sense here.} Rxc7 17. bxc6 (17. gxh5 $2 Qg2 $19 ) 17... Nf6 $19) 16... Qg2 17. Qf3 Qxf3 18. Nxf3 Rxc7 $17) 16. b5 $1 {Now White is better, and Black has to go into swindle mode. Black's problem, of course, is that the h5 knight is trapped while the c6 knight can't move without being lost or at least being captured by the hanging bishop on c7.} Rxc7 {The best try.} 17. bxc6 $16 {/+-} Rxc6 (17... Nf4) 18. Ncb1 $2 {Trying to be safe and greedy (covering a3), White makes the losing move - believe it or not.} (18. gxh5 Bxa3 19. Nce4 Qh4 20. Rc2 $16 {/+-}) 18... b5 $1 19. Bxb5 ( 19. Bd3 Rxc1 20. Qxc1 Bb7 21. Rg1 Rc8 22. Qd1 {avoids the ...Qe5 idea in the game. Unfortunately for White, there are other tactical problems.} (22. Bc2 Qg5 $19 {displays yet another tactical resource.}) 22... Qb2 $19 {threatens ...Rc1, thereby saving the knight.}) 19... Rxc1 20. Qxc1 Bb7 21. Rf1 Qe5 {Now Black isn't losing any material. White's position is a disaster, and Black will start hammering away at the enemy king.} 22. Qc4 $2 {A last error, not that it mattered.} Rc8 23. Qd3 Rc1+ 24. Ke2 Nf4# {Benko looked awful in this game, and sometimes he displayed a glass jaw against tactically powerful opponents. But we shouldn't forget that Benko was himself a two-time Candidate, in both 1959 and 1962. He was no slouch!} 0-1 [Event "Santiago de Chile International"] [Site "Santiago de Chile"] [Date "1959.04.22"] [Round "3"] [White "Fischer, Robert James"] [Black "Ivkov, Borislav"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "C16"] [Annotator "Monokroussos,Dennis"] [PlyCount "104"] [EventDate "1959.04.20"] [EventType "tourn"] [EventRounds "13"] [EventCountry "CHI"] [SourceTitle "MCD"] [Source "ChessBase"] [SourceVersion "1"] [SourceQuality "1"] {[%evp 0,104,13,8,29,29,32,32,31,35,27,19,19,19,43,33,88,24,20,5,16,18,15,13, 12,1,-2,-36,-49,-3,-4,-4,-57,-80,-68,-64,-53,-117,-82,-79,-78,-95,-94,-96,-104, -119,-101,-104,-91,-102,-97,-76,-29,-38,-24,-86,-114,-107,-111,-104,-109,-107, -108,-105,-105,-133,-169,-194,-192,-202,-224,-294,-258,-338,-300,-389,-389, -398,-343,-343,-335,-345,-360,-406,-340,-340,-357,-354,-383,-418,-434,-481, -419,-430,-396,-419,-412,-450,-478,-492,-524,-626,-663,-682,-704,-836,-903]} 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 Ne7 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 b6 7. Qg4 Ng6 8. Bg5 Qd7 9. h4 h6 10. Bd2 h5 11. Qf3 Qa4 12. Bd3 Ba6 13. g4 hxg4 14. Qxg4 Bxd3 15. cxd3 Nc6 16. Qg5 Nce7 17. h5 Nf5 18. Ne2 Nge7 19. Ng3 O-O-O 20. Qg4 Rdf8 21. Rh3 Kb8 22. Bg5 Qc2 23. Rc1 Qb2 24. a4 Qa3 25. Qd1 Nxg3 26. fxg3 Nc6 27. h6 gxh6 28. Bf6 Rhg8 29. Kf2 Rg6 30. Qc2 Rfg8 31. Rb1 Qf8 32. a5 Nxa5 33. Qa4 Ka8 34. Rb5 Qe8 35. c4 Nc6 36. Qa1 dxc4 37. dxc4 Qd7 38. c5 Qxd4+ 39. Qxd4 Nxd4 40. Rb4 Nf5 41. c6 Rg4 42. Rxg4 Rxg4 43. Rh1 a5 44. Rg1 a4 45. Rd1 Rd4 46. Rg1 Rd2+ 47. Kf3 Rd3+ 48. Kf4 {White's position is far beyond saving. Still, as long as one's opponent keeps playing, it is incumbent upon the player with a winning position to stay alert and look for the best way to end the opponent's resistance. Ivkov is alert, and executes a simple, useful tacti.} Rxg3 $1 49. Rc1 (49. Rxg3 Nxg3 50. Kxg3 a3 {and the pawn is unstoppable.}) 49... Rd3 50. Kg4 a3 51. Ra1 b5 52. Rb1 a2 0-1 [Event "Capablanca Memorial-04"] [Site "Havana"] [Date "1965.09.08"] [Round "10"] [White "Fischer, Robert James"] [Black "Ivkov, Borislav"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "C96"] [Annotator "Monokroussos,Dennis"] [PlyCount "106"] [EventDate "1965.08.25"] [EventType "tourn"] [EventRounds "21"] [EventCountry "CUB"] [SourceTitle "MCD"] [Source "ChessBase"] [SourceVersion "1"] [SourceQuality "1"] {[%evp 0,106,13,8,8,23,13,5,31,0,12,12,12,6,-2,-2,10,-6,-6,-12,-5,-10,-12,-11, 14,-16,-16,6,24,11,29,4,30,22,15,17,14,-20,-5,-16,-8,-11,9,-27,-23,-10,-24,-24, -17,-21,-15,-8,-17,-13,-17,-30,-21,-17,-17,-24,-16,0,10,41,8,-1,-1,0,1,-3,11,0, 0,-62,-48,-112,-105,-196,-213,-212,-204,-220,-215,-219,-167,-167,-151,-151, -173,-177,-203,-214,-202,-203,-213,-209,-238,-271,-213,-214,-214,-221,-228, -244,-276,-299,-271,-276,-297]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 O-O 8. c3 d6 9. h3 Na5 10. Bc2 c5 11. d4 Nd7 12. dxc5 dxc5 13. Nbd2 f6 14. Nh4 Nb6 15. Nf5 Rf7 16. Nxe7+ Rxe7 17. Qf3 Be6 18. Nf1 Rd7 19. Ne3 c4 20. Nf5 Na4 21. Bxa4 bxa4 22. Be3 Rd3 23. Qg4 Qd7 24. Bc5 Rc8 25. Be7 Bxf5 26. Qxf5 Nc6 27. Bc5 Nd8 28. Qxd7 Rxd7 29. Rad1 Rd3 30. Ba3 Nc6 31. Rxd3 cxd3 32. Rd1 Rd8 33. Kf1 g6 34. g4 f5 35. gxf5 gxf5 36. exf5 e4 37. Ke1 Ne5 38. Bc5 Nf3+ 39. Kf1 Kf7 40. Kg2 {Just as in the last game, Ivkov, with Black, has a winning advantage against Fischer in a rook and knight vs. rook and bishop ending. And also just as in that last game, Ivkov offers a piece to let the pawn promote.} Rg8+ 41. Kh1 Rg1+ $1 42. Rxg1 Nxg1 43. Be3 {As in the last game, Fischer refuses the offer.} (43. Kxg1 d2 $19) 43... Nf3 44. Kg2 d2 45. Bxd2 Nxd2 46. Kg3 Kf6 47. Kf4 h5 48. Ke3 Nf3 49. Kxe4 Ng5+ 50. Kf4 Nxh3+ 51. Kg3 Ng5 52. Kh4 Kxf5 53. Kxh5 Ne4 {White has no chance of getting rid of both Black pawns, while Black will have no difficulty vacuuming up White's remaining pawns and then promoting to a queen, so Fischer gives up.} 0-1