Yudovich — Kotov
Moscow ChampionshipMoscow, 1942
- Mikhail Yudovich (1911–1987)Soviet international master, correspondence grandmaster, and prolific chess writer.
- Alexander Kotov (1913–1981)Soviet grandmaster, a Candidate for the world title, and author of Think Like a Grandmaster.
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- Black starts building pressure on White's central pawns, and White's pieces have to guard them the whole time
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- The knight heads for a5 to attack the hanging pawns
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- Black maneuvers and keeps the pawns under fire, which leaves White no way to create active counterplay
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- A harmless demonstration, nothing more. White is too slow to create real threats
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- 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
- Probably better. White holds back the pawn advance for now
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- A pawn up and clearly better, Black won a few moves later