Author: Simon Finn
Date: 11:03:34 06/05/00
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After 21 moves of the Spassky-Bronstein game from the 1960 Soviet championship, the position was: [D]r3rnk1/ppp1qNp1/7p/2P1b3/3P1Q2/1B6/PP4PP/5RK1 w - - c0 "Spassky-Bronstein, XXVII USSR Ch., Leningrad 1960"; The game concluded 22 Nxe5+ Kh7 23 Qe4+ 1-0 According to Cafferty in "Spassky's 100 Best Games": The fine finish of this game was adopted for use in the famous if implausible opening scene of the James Bond film "From Russia with Love". Strangely enough however, in the 'Kronsteen-McAdams game' the White pawns at Q4 and QB5 were omitted. So the final position of Kronsteen-McAdams was: [D]r3rn2/ppp1q1pk/7p/4N3/4Q3/1B6/PP4PP/5RK1 b - - c0 "Kronsteen-McAdams, 'From Russia with Love'"; and Black resigned because he has to choose between 23 ... Kh8 24 Rxf8+ and mate in 3 or 23 ... g6 24 Rf7+ winning his queen. Simon
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