Author: Arturo Ochoa
Date: 04:02:35 02/06/01
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On February 06, 2001 at 06:41:35, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: The other three positions that I have posted here come from the real games and my archives. This combination paid my attention, because I have been working with the Yasgac I Test since three months ago. The interesting thing is the mentioned Test says the source is the original I posted. I will correct now. Thanks. >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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