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Subject: Averbakh - Spassky, Leningrad 1956

Author: Darren Rushton

Date: 12:51:05 10/24/03


[D] rnq2rk1/1pn3bp/p2p2p1/2pPp1PP/P1P1Pp2/2N2N2/1P1B1P2/R2QK2R b KQ - 0 16

16...Nc6!!

About his #1 greatest move, Spassky wrote: I have played 16...Nc6 because I did
not see any other practical resources because my position was so passive. I was
very surprised that Yuri Averbakh was thinking (for) about 1 hour (!!). I
considered that after 17.dxc6 bxc6 18.h6! Bh8 White would have two pieces up and
they could manage the win very easy.

Mark Taimanov: "I would rather resign the game than to make such a move..."



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