Smith Morra Gambit: 11 Be3 Be6 12 Rac1 Bxc4 13 Qxc4 Rc8 14 Qb5 b6 15 Bg5 Qe8 16 Bxf6 Bxf6 17 Nd5 Ne7 18 Nxf6+ gxf6 19 Qxe8 Rfxe8

11 Be3

11 Bg5!?
11 b3?!
11 Nd5!?
11 Bd2!?

11 ... Be6

11 ... a6!?
11 ... Bd7!?

12 Rac1

12 b4?!
12 Bxe6!?
12 Bd5?!

12 ... Bxc4

12 ... Rc8!?
12 ... Rb8!?

13 Qxc4

13 ... Rc8

13 ... Qd7!?
13 ... a6!?

14 Qb5

14 Qa4!?
14 Nd5!?
14 Bg5!?

14 ... b6

14 ... Qd7!?
14 ... Rb8!?

15 Bg5

15 a3!?

15 ... Qe8

15 ... Nd4!?
15 ... Nh5!?

16 Bxf6

16 a4!?
16 b4!?
16 Qd3!?
16 Bh4!?
16 Kh1!?

16 ... Bxf6

17 Nd5

17 Qd3!?
17 Rxd6!?

17 ... Ne7

17 ... Bd8?!
17 ... Kh8!?

18 Nxf6+

18 Qxe8!?

18 ... gxf6

19 Qxe8

19 Qd3!?

19 ... Rfxe8

19 ... Rcxe8?

With equality.

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ASSIAC THE DELIGHTS OF CHESS (An Excerpt)

“It was the twenty-sixth title match in the history (as from Steinitz) of the chess world championship. The match began on 14 April in the traditional venue, Moscow’s Estrada Theatre, and the
1 500 seats had been sold out for many weeks.

The challenger was slightly favoured by the experts, but no one could deny the toughness and experience of the reigning champion.

As a matter of fact, even though Black in the first game, the defending champion won it, and the next three games were drawn. When Spassky equalised the score in the fifth game and, winning two more, led by two points after the eighth game, many experts considered the match to be practically decided.

But it certainly wasn’t, for in the tenth and eleventh game the world champion, playing at the top of his form, could vanquish the challenger, thereby equalising again and holding on up to 8:8 after the sixteenth game.

In the very difficult seventeenth, thanks to a mistake of his fatigued opponent, Spassky went ahead; the next one was a draw, and in the nineteenth, no doubt the most brilliant game of the entire match, Spassky once again established a lead by 2 points. He was playing White.”

Smith Morra Gambit

11 Be3 Be6 12 Rac1 Bxc4 13 Qxc4 Rc8 14 Qb5 b6 15 Bg5 Qe8 16 Bxf6 Bxf6 17 Nd5 Ne7 18 Nxf6+ gxf6 19 Qxe8 Rfxe8

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