Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 03:41:35 02/06/01
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This is written by Tim Krabbe. Since it does not seem to be available on the web any more I am reproducing it here. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. BEYEN'S TRICK Band 6: A promotion combination It must be terrible to have played one briliant game in your life, a game that went round the world, and then to see it attributed to a rival. That is what happened to the untitled Belgian player Beyen (I hope I spell his name right; there is always confusion in Dutch between the ij and the y) when he beat the Czech two- time World Championship Candidate Filip. The combination has been published in various books and magazines, but the game itself doesn't seem to have made it to the databases, so I give it here in full. Beyen - Filip, Luxemburg 1971 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.f3 c5 5.d5 d6 6.e4 Bxc3+ 7.bxc3 e5 8.Bd3 Nbd7 9.Ne2 Nf8 10.O-O Nh5 11.f4 Nxf4 12.Nxf4 exf4 13.Bxf4 Ng6 14.Qh5 Qe7 15.e5 Nxf4 16.Rxf4 g6 17.Qh6 dxe5 18.Re1 f5 19.d6 Qf6 20.g4 Kd8 21.Rff1 f4 22.g5 Qf8 23.Rxe5 Qxh6 24.gxh6 Kd7 25.Rd5 Rf8 26.Re1 Rf7 That game however, is a little blemish to the beautiful combination. 27.Bc2 As if taking a run-up; he could have already played his brilliancy here. 27...b5 Black can't really do anything about it. And now: (See Diagram) 28.Bxg6! hxg6 29.Re7+ Rxe7 30.dxe7+ Kxe7 31.Rd8! and Black resigned; he is forced to block the back rank, and White queens. In all those publications, perhaps owing to its being transcribed into Cyrillic and back again, and the names being similar, White has mostly become Boey, a better known (and stronger) Belgian master. In fact, the occasion was a match Belgium - Czechoslovakia where Boey played on a higher board. (Did he whisper Bxg6 to Beyen after 27.Bc2?) To give Beyen his due, and because his game is one of the nicest practical examples of it, I'll call the central move of his combination, Rd8, 'Beyen's Trick.' This promotion combination, where a line to a promotion square is interfered, is one of the themes I collected in Band no. 6 of my archives. -- GCP
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