Thursday, 24 June 2010

Make sure you get the first move right

There is nothing more embarrassing than calculating a winning line, only to play the first move out of order, or overlook an instant refutation. I've done it on occasion (even at correspondence chess), usually when the sequence starts with a capture and recapture, followed by the rest of the combination. Under those circumstances I've skipped right past the initial capture, much to the detriment of my subsequent play.
Early on in his chess career Svetozar Gligoric feel victim to a similar mistake. Playing in his first international event against Goesta Stoltz, he achieved a winning position, and calculated what he thought was the best path to victory. Unfortunately he forgot his queen was attacked. Shocked at his own blunder he played on for a number of moves before resigning.

Gligoric,Svetozar - Stoltz,Goesta [E44]
Treybal mem Prague (10), 1946

1.c4 Nf6 2.d4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 b6 5.Nge2 Bb7 6.a3 Bxc3+ 7.Nxc3 Ne4 8.Nxe4 Bxe4 9.Qg4 Bg6 10.Be2 Nc6 11.Bd2 Na5 12.Bc3 h5 13.Qg3 h4 14.Qg4 Rh7 15.d5 Nb3 16.Rd1 Bf5 17.Qf3 Nc5 18.b4 Ne4 19.Bb2 Qe7 20.dxe6 fxe6 21.Bd3 d5 22.cxd5 Ng5 23.Bb5+ Kf8(D)
24.Bc6?? Nxf3+ 25.gxf3 Rd8 26.e4 exd5 27.Bxd5 Be6 28.0-0 Bxd5 29.exd5 h3 30.Rd4 Rh4 0-1

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