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Improve Your Chess: Highly Instructive Games - Keres-Winter 1935

Opening:

Sicilian Defense - Nimzovich Variation

Player(s):

Keres, Winter

Teacher's library
B29
Keres
Winter
game analysis

Young Keres was in a mood to gambit material for a lead in development. As so often happens in imbalanced positions, the defender failed to find the right balance of material and time and Keres sacrificed a knight to prevent Winter from castling (but not before Stockfish found a brilliant improvement on Keres' play). Keres then had a winning attack, which he played well, and never let Winter back in the game, winning a miniature that made him world famous.