One of The Greatest Games Ever Played

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It would have been better to include the complete game
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1472988

We actually covered this exact game in one of our old studies:

But i thought he was called Nikolay Gusev?

Probably is Y not E Averback, a well known soviet grandmaster.

@jemir said in #4:

Probably is Y not E Averback, a well known soviet grandmaster.

That's a common blunder! As I said: "His opponent E. Auerbach is a mystery. Their game against Gusev seems to be their only recorded chess game."

People commonly mistake E. Auerbach for Y. Averbakh.

https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=148098

@Phil224 said in #3:

We actually covered this exact game in one of our old studies:

But i thought he was called Nikolay Gusev?

Looks like you made a double blunder then! ;) Since in your study you list the opponent as GM Yuri Averbakh not E. Auerbach (as I mentioned above).

@RuyLopez1000 You sure that it's E. Auerbach? Because if you use a more powerful database (chesscom for example) it shows white is Yuri Averbakh not E. Auerbach.

Are you saying chesscom is wrong? 🤔

@Phil224 said in #6:

@RuyLopez1000 You sure that it's E. Auerbach? Because if you use a more powerful database (chesscom for example) it shows white is Yuri Averbakh not E. Auerbach.

Are you saying chesscom is wrong? 🤔

Precisely! What did u expect from that shoddy website. XD.

What version of Stockfish are you running? I have 17.1 and it gives the position after 23. Qxd6 as clearly winning by depth 30.

@wgvgreen

I used the analysis board on Lichess: https://lichess.org/analysis/2r1q1kr/p6p/1p1QPppB/4n3/4P3/2P5/PP2B2P/R5K1_b_-_-_0_23?color=white

Moral of the story: play g4, no matter the position. Almost always works haha.
Spectacular zugzwang that. Never seen nothing like it before.