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Boris Spassky's Amazing Immortal Kings Gambit Chess game featured in James Bond Film vs Bronstein

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Instructive game tags: Classic game, USSR championship, good friends, dynamic aggressive, Sorcerer's apprentice game, exponents of Kings Gambit, Kings Gambit, romantic era, accepted, Kings gambit accepted, prevent Qh4+, counter gambit, d5 central thrust, shared e file, sharing a file, holding onto pawn, holding f pawn, d5 pawn offered, removing bishop pair, f-file dangers, f7 soft spot, king soft spot, tempo gaining, battery, bishop and queen battery, winning rook, rook sac, rook sacrifice, accelerating attack, ignoring rook attacked, f7 and h7 softspots, light square weaknesses, dramatic position, dramatic game, film game, film chess, film chess game, from russia with love, game used in film, games used in james bond, knight sacrifice, knight and rook sac, discovered check possibility, double check possibility, bishop sac, keeping queens on, keeping tension, maintaining tension, knights supporting each other, discovered check, central queen move, crushing queen move, crushing position, king safety, outrageous game Boris Spassky vs David Bronstein "The SMERSH Gambit" (Chessgames.com game of the day Aug-29-11) URS-ch 1960 · King's Gambit: Accepted. Modern Defense (C36) [Event "URS-ch"] [Site "URS-ch"] [Date "1960.??.??"] [EventDate "?"] [Round "?"] [Result "1-0"] [White "Boris Spassky"] [Black "David Bronstein"] [ECO "C36"] [WhiteElo "?"] [BlackElo "?"] [PlyCount "45"] 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 {One of the deepest sacrifices this side of The Evergreen Game -- Soltis} 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 Annotated PGN [Event "URS-ch"] [Site "URS-ch"] [Date "1960.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Boris Spassky"] [Black "David Bronstein"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C36"] [PlyCount "45"] [EventDate "1960.??.??"] {27th USSR Championship, Leningrad 1960 January 26 - February 26} 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 d5 4. exd5 Bd6 5. Nc3 Ne7 (5... Nf6 6. Qe2+ Qe7 7. d4 O-O 8. Qxe7 Bxe7 9. Bxf4) 6. d4 O-O 7. Bd3 Nd7 8. O-O h6 (8... Nf6 9. Ne5 Nexd5 10. Nxd5 Nxd5 11. Qf3 Be6 12. Bxf4) 9. Ne4 Nxd5 10. c4 Ne3 11. Bxe3 fxe3 12. c5 Be7 13. Bc2 Re8 (13... f5 14. Ng3 g6) 14. Qd3 e2 15. Nd6 {One of the deepest sacrifices this side of The Evergreen Game -- Soltis} (15. Rfe1 Nf8 16. Rxe2 Bf5 17. Rae1 (17. Nf6+ Bxf6 18. Qxf5 Rxe2)) (15. Rf2 Nf8 16. Ne5 Be6 17. Rxe2 Rc8 18. Rae1) 15... Nf8 (15... exf1=Q+ 16. Rxf1 Nf6 (16... Bxd6 17. Qh7+ Kf8 18. Qh8+ (18. cxd6 cxd6 19. Qh8+ Ke7 20. Re1+ Ne5 21. Qxg7 Rg8 22. Qxh6 Qb6 23. Kh1 Be6 24. dxe5 dxe5 25. Qh4+ Kf8 26. Nxe5 Rg7 27. Qh8+ Rg8 28. Qh4) 18... Ke7 19. cxd6+ Kxd6 20. Qxg7 c5 21. Qg3+ Kc6 22. dxc5 Nxc5) 17. Nxf7 Kxf7 (17... Qd5 18. Nxh6+ gxh6 19. Qg6+ Kh8 20. Qxh6+ Kg8 21. Qg6+ Kf8 22. Ng5) (17... Be6 18. Nxd8) 18. Bb3+ Be6 (18... Kf8 19. Qg6 Nd5 20. Ng5+ Kg8 21. Qh7#) 19. Ne5+ Kg8 20. Bxe6+ Kh8 21. Ng6+ Kh7 22. Nf8+ Kh8 23. Qh7+ Nxh7 24. Ng6#) 16. Nxf7 exf1=Q+ 17. Rxf1 Bf5 (17... Qd7 18. N3e5 Qd5) (17... Qd5 18. Bb3 Qh5 19. Nxh6+ Kh8 20. Nf7+ Kg8 21. N7g5+ Kh8 22. Bf7 Qg4 23. Bxe8) (17... Qd7 18. N3e5 Qd5) 18. Qxf5 Qd7 19. Qf4 Bf6 20. N3e5 Qe7 21. Bb3 (21. Qg4 Bg5 22. Nxg5 Qxg5 23. Rxf8+ Rxf8 24. Qe6+ Kh8 25. Ng6+ Kh7 26. Nxf8+ Kh8) 21... Bxe5 22. Nxe5+ Kh7 23. Qe4+ 1-0 ►Subscribe for my regular chess videos: http://goo.gl/zpktUK ►Support the channel by donating via PayPal: http://goo.gl/7HJcDq ►Playlists: http://osk03.chesshorsey.com/chessclubs/playlistvideosstructure.asp ►Kingscrusher's Greatest Hit Videos! : http://tinyurl.com/6vvx6qe ►Play FREE online chess at http://osk03.chesshorsey.com or realtime at http://www.chessclub.com/from/kingscrusher Thumbnail Spassky picture By Punt / Anefo [CC BY-SA 3.0 nl (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/nl/deed.en)], via Wikimedia Commons Bronstein By Koch, Eric / Anefo [CC BY-SA 3.0 nl (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/nl/deed.en)], via Wikimedia Commons

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