Smith Morra Gambit: 9 Rd1 e5

9 Rd1

9 Bf4!?

9 ... e5!

9 ... Qc7!?
9 ... Bd7!?
9 ... Ng4!?
9 ... Qa5!?
9 ... O-O!?
9 ... a6?!

9 ... Bd7 10 Nb5 Na5 11 Bd3 0-0
12 e5 dxe5 13 Nxe5 Bxb5 14 Bxb5 Nd5.
9 ... e5 10 Nd5 Nxd5 11 Bxd5 Bg4
12 Be3 0-0 13 Rac1 Rc8 14 Qb5.

9 ... e5!

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.”

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