Verlinsky — Rubinstein

Moscow, 1925

• Boris Verlinsky (1888–1950)The first player awarded the USSR grandmaster title (1929), who won the Soviet championship that same year despite having been deaf since childhood.
• Akiba Rubinstein (1880–1961)A Polish grandmaster (FIDE title, 1950) rated the world's strongest player from 1912 to 1914 by the retrospective Chessmetrics rankings, yet he never played a match for the world title.

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1. 34.
2. Preventing e5-e4
3. 34.
4. Still intending to make the breakthrough. White brings in another piece to hold it back
5. 35.
6. White has now massed six (!) hits on the e4 square, while Black holds that square under "only" five. It would seem Black cannot play e5-e4 right away. Yet it followed
7. 35.
8. 36.
9. The point is that this continuationcosts White at least the exchange after
10. 36.
11. 37.
12. 38.
13. 39.
14. And Black achieved an overwhelming position