Bachtiar — Bilek
OlympiadSkopje, 1972
- Arovah Bachtiar (1934)Indonesian international master and four-time national champion, a mainstay of the country's Olympiad team from the 1950s to the 1970s.
- István Bilek (1932–2010)Hungarian grandmaster, three-time national champion, and a nine-time Olympiad player who won three individual board medals.
In this game the black pawns advanced with essentially nothing in their way.
- Anticipating Black's coming pawn advance, White's best here was to retreat the bishop to g2, keeping the key d5 square under control and making the d-pawn's advance harder. But this necessary prophylaxis never came
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- Perhaps later White could have managed this regrouping: ♕b4, ♖ac1, c3-c4
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- The threat was 20...g4 and then 21...g5
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- The pawn knows its job: step by step it moves forward
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- It still seems that Black's d-pawn cannot break through to a queen, but let us not rush to conclusions
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- Now the threat 27...♖c4 28. ♕a3 ♗c8 is very unpleasant
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- Avoiding one trouble, but running into another
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- After this the a-pawn gets a "green light," but what can you advise White?
- ()And Black either forces through d5-d4 or breaks in with the queen along the a7-g1 diagonal
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- White resigned — the d-pawn cannot be stopped