Yudovich — Kotov

Moscow ChampionshipMoscow, 1942

• Mikhail Yudovich (1911–1987)Soviet international master (1950), correspondence grandmaster (1972), and Soviet correspondence champion in 1966. He shared third at the 1931 USSR Championship and spent four decades as deputy editor of Shakhmaty v SSSR.
• Alexander Kotov (1913–1981)Soviet grandmaster (1950), 1948 USSR co-champion, and a two-time Candidate (1950, 1953). He won the 1952 Interzonal by three points and wrote Think Like a Grandmaster.

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1. 14.
2. Black starts building pressure on White's central pawns, and White's pieces have to guard them the whole time
3. 15.
4. The knight heads for a5 to attack the hanging pawns
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9. Black maneuvers and keeps the pawns under fire, which leaves White no way to create active counterplay
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17. A harmless demonstration, nothing more. White is too slow to create real threats
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20. Now the c4 pawn becomes hopelessly weak. Black also gets comfortable strong points (c5, d4). It is not easy to give White good advice here, though
22. Probably better. White holds back the pawn advance for now
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30. A pawn up and clearly better, Black won a few moves later