The battle of light cavalry – and those amazing men.
Submitted by on Fri, 10/10/2008 at 10:16am.
When the Queen and Rooks all has left us for ever than begins the battle of light cavalry. In our case they are the two Bishops against the two Knights on the other side. This is the third side of medal as I had wrote in the previous article. Of course the third side yields a third result: a drawn game. It depends still from the number and position of pawns. If the position and number of pawns is not far of equal than the result of game all the more is drawn.
For example there are two world-champion matches. To the first example I selected the Capablanca – Alekhine match (Buenos Aires, 1927) and there I’ll present the 17th game.
Analyzed by Panov
To the second example there is the first test match of Botvinnik against Bronstein (Moscow, 1951) Euwe wrote: „The first test match in 1951 almost proved fatal for the title-holder. Twenty-seven years old David Bronstein, the winner of the Candidate’s Tournament, was an original opponent, strong and full of talent with a remarkable mastery of combinations. The 24 games they played produced no winner – 12:12 – but according to FIDE regulations – Botvinnik retained his title.
And there was that dramatic 23rd game. Before the game Bronstein lead: 11,5:10,5. And there happened the endgame: Bishops against Knights.
This game was published in the „Hungarian Chess-life” magazine. There I found this picture where are Botvinnik (left) and Bronstein (right) at the beginning of 24th game.
Analyzed by IM dr. Lajos Asztalos who there was on the scene of match in Moscow.
But the game didn’t come to an end with this giving up. Botvinnik verifyed his victory by this analyzing (which origins from this book: Dr. Max Euwe, From Steinitz to Fischer): 57… Nc6 58.Bxd5 Nd6 59.Bf3 Kf5 60.Bc1! b5 61.Fxc6 bxc6 62.a5 ±. It seemed acceptable.
And than… came „Those amazing men!” (Not the Wright brothers with their aeroplane) They were two chessplayers: Winter and Wade. They described in same book after the Botvinnik analyzing that: 59… b5!=(date 1976). And equal is the position?! This move isn’t at the analyzis Asztalos(date 1951), after 59.Bg2. But in this position we also could move 59… b5!(date 2008) And my previous question is same.
I wonder whether it is true that Brostein resigned a drawn game? And whether throw out he the worldchampion-title across the window?
We don’t know which circumstances were there. Yesterday I asked one of my chess-friends one grandmaster who was in good friendship with Bronstein. In 1958 he asked Bronstein about this game. He answered that for the end of match he was very tired already and thought very much to his father who than was placed by soviets into the „Gulag” (working camp)…
Hereby Bronstein’s dreams about world-championship flew as „Those amazing men” with their aeroplane… (The Wright brothers)