Thematic games for analysis: - Lev Polugaevsky vs Genrikh Kasparian, 1956 USSR Ch. - Lev Psakhis vs Uwe Boensch, 1983 Keres Memorial - Lajos Portisch vs Josef Hajtun, 1955 Hungarian Ch. - Gennadi Sosonko vs Miguel Quinteros, 1977 IBM Tournament - Svetozar Gligoric vs Theodor Ghitescu, 1967 Hoogovens - Yasser Seirawan vs Igor Vasilyevich Ivanov, 2002 US Ch. - Etienne Bacrot vs Thomas Heinatz, 1999 Bundesliga - Hans Ree vs Anthony J Miles, 1987 Ter Apel - Paul Keres vs Efim Geller, 1962 Candidates Playoff - Ludek Pachman vs Victor Ciocaltea, 1966 - Dorin Rogozenko vs Yasser Seirawan, 2001 Netherlands Team Ch. - Hans Hermesmann vs Anthony J Miles, 1988 Bundesliga - Yuri Averbakh vs Victor Alexandrovic Liublinsky, 1952 Moscow Ch. - Walter Browne vs Benjamin Finegold, 1994 Las Vegas Open - Mark Taimanov vs Efim Geller, 1961 USSR Ch.
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Excellent explanation of the plans for the Czech Benoni. Thanks Stepjan. But to call Maia Chiburdanidze a "fairly unknown player" (41:00) is a faux pas. She is the sixth Women's World Chess Champion, a title she held from 1978 to 1991.
Absolutely incredible video, thank you! Taking the key set of themes, for both sides, rather than just specific lines, was a super helpful way to understand this opening. Well done sir!
The Miles-Seirawan draw at 18:24 happened in the SWIFT tournament in Brussels, 1986. SWIFT was a telecommunications company. I had a book of all the games in that tournament at one time. SWIFT was, for a couple of years anyway, considered the Wimbledon of chess and invited the top players of the day to its tournament. The '86 tournament was won by Karpov. The following year, in '87, it was won by Kasparov, and then it was no more.
Great video. Flohr-Larsen is a good example for those keen on the Black side. Larsen mixes it up by playing both pawn breaks in quick succession and this seems to confuse Flohr completely.
Great overview of this opening. One thing - At 41:10 you say that Maya CHiburdanidze is a fairly unknown player but there was a player with that name who was women's world champion for a number of years defeating Nona Gaprindashvili. Was this the same person - if so, not exactly an "unknown". But thanks again for all the content of this video
This is funny, completely got it wrong about Karpov-Seirawan. Karpov was winnig all along, never worse with a +30.00 evaluation in the final position. He lost because he flagged (blitz game), but he played it excellently and got a wonderful position, as expected from Karpov
