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By Larry Parr
Chess Life Editor 1984 - 1988
Author
HEART
OF CHESS DARKNESS
(III)
II. Failing to move a piece that is attacked:
Although the pain of moving a piece where it can be taken is piercing,
the agony of failing to shift a piece that has been attacked is excruciating.
No lore of horror would be complete without this blunder:
GM
Tigran Petrosian -
GM
David Bronstein, Candidates’
Tournament, 1956.
GM
David Bronstein (to move)
GM
Tigran Petrosian
35. ... Nf5
Tigran Petrosian has just played 35. Qa3-d6, tightening the clamp.
He is about to win what would later have been regarded as the strategic
masterpiece of that year’s Candidates’ event in Amsterdam.
The victory might have put him on the road to a title match with
Botvinnik in 1957. Bronstein as
Black has just played his Knight to f5, attacking Petrosian’s Queen on d6.
A response such as 36. Qc7 can now be played, and the Black b-pawn will
soon fall.
36. Ng5???
White blithely ignores the attack on his Queen and resigns next move.
36. ... Nxd6, White resigns
Petrosian - Bronstein
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