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Pete Tamburro on

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This game was a heart breaker for Soultanbeieff. He launched a brilliant attack and well sustained. Then, right at the moment he could make a move that led to mate, he let his opponent escape. It was an attack originally made famous by Lasker and then Tarrasch, but this one is still a great learning game.


Mendlewicz-Soultanbeieff, Liege, 1926: 1...Nf3+ 2.gxf3 2.Kh1 Bxh2 3.gxf3 Qh4 4.fxe4 (4.Rg1 Be5+ 5.Kg2 Qh3#) 4...Bf4+ 5.Kg2 Qh3+ 6.Kg1 Qh2# 2...Bxh2+ 3.Kxh2 Qh4+ 4.Kg1 Qg5+ 5.Kh2 Qh5+ 6.Kg3 6.Kg1 exf3 6...Qh3+ 7.Kf4 Qh4+ 8.Ke5 0–0! Soultanbieff tried 8...c5 9.Nd6+ Kd8 10.Kd5 and then missed 10… b6 as well. 9.Kd4 Qd8+ 10.Kc3 10.Kc5 a5 11.Be5 b6+ 12.Kc6 Qd7# 10...Qd3+ 11.Kb4 a5+ 12.Kc5 b6+ 13.Kc6 Qxc4#

 


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