By Edward Winter
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White exchanges his a-pawn for the two enemy pawns, which leads to a theoretically won position, on account of the remote position of the black king. The play would have been more complicated and interesting after 73 . . @d4, but about that a little later. 74 and resigned. a6 7S @d2 'it>e4 76 'it>c3 00 77 @b4. If 77 . . al 79 1k4+ followed by 80 :a4, and White wins. The result is the same after 7 7 ... xa7 00 (80 . . a3 . But Black has the cunning reply 77 . . 'it>g2 ! (if 78 Itc2+ 'it>h3 !
Id7 The most sensible decision, as after 4 . f5 5 f3 exf3 6 tZJxf3 for the sacrificed pawn White gains a significant lead in development, with the enemy position weakened. 5 tl'ih3 29 . f6 The greedy 29 ... xb2 could have been punished by 30 tbd8 (with the tlueat of 3 1 'i'e8+ �g7 32 tZ'le6+) 30 . . + ©g8 (3 1 . �g7 32 • • 63 The knight occupies a poor position, where it has little future for further manoeuvring. It is clear that, since Black has not defended his e4 pawn, it should be eliminated.
D7 @g6 The conditions in this qualifying tournament were severe: only the winner went through to the final, and before this game my opponent - one of the strongest first category players in the city - had won all his games. I, on the other hand, had already drawn one The attempt to retain the e4 pawn would also not have been good: 6 1 . l:txa7. 62 63 tbcJ tt:lxe4+ 'itf6 �e6 40 79 80 81 82 83 game, so that in the present game I had to win at all costs. Since White achieves nothing with 73 �8 <;tbs 74 a7