Author: Chessfun
Date: 06:55:44 02/03/02
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On February 03, 2002 at 09:29:54, Chris Janeke wrote: >On February 03, 2002 at 06:49:09, Charlie GOLD wrote: > >> Does anyone have info on the chess game that was shown at the beginning of the >>movie, "From Russia with Love"? There were 2 gentlemen playing...only 2 moves >>were played and then black resigned. Yours, charlie > >According to Bernard Cafferty (1973, Spassky's 100 Best games, P. 104) the >position was taken from Spassky's game against Bronstein in 1960 during the 27th >USSR championship (held at Leningrad). Spassky played a King's Gambit and >brilliantly won in only 23 moves. Apparently the finish of the game was used in >the "Kronsteen- McAdams game, but the white pawns at Q4 and QB5 were omitted. > >Unfortunately, I could not find the game in my Fritz6 database, and I'm too lazy >to type it in. I hope somebody else will be kind enough to post the actual >moves. > >Regards > >Chris Janeke [Event "?"] [Site "Leningrad ch-SU"] [Date "1960.??.??"] [Round "16"] [White "Spassky B V"] [Black "Bronstein,David"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C36"] 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 d5 4. exd5 Bd6 5. Nc3 Ne7 6. d4 O-O 7. Bd3 Nd7 8. O-O h6 9. Ne4 Nxd5 10. c4 Ne3 11. Bxe3 fxe3 12. c5 Be7 13. Bc2 Re8 14. Qd3 e2 15. Nd6 Nf8 16. Nxf7 exf1=Q+ 17. Rxf1 Bf5 18. Qxf5 Qd7 19. Qf4 Bf6 20. N3e5 Qe7 21. Bb3 Bxe5 22. Nxe5+ Kh7 23. Qe4+ 1-0 Sarah.
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