Tactics Time Chess Newsletter: GM Robert Byrne Tribute
Published: Fri, 04/19/13
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his position was played between Samuel Reshevsky and Robert Byrne in Chicago 1973.
In the position on the right it is Black to move.
Answer below.
The great American chess Grandmaster and writer Robert Byrne passed away last week at 84 years of age.
From wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrne_%28chess_player%29
Robert Eugene Byrne (April 20, 1928 - April 12, 2013) was an American chess Grandmaster and chess author.
He won the U.S. Championship in 1972, and was a World Chess Championship Candidate in 1974.
Byrne represented the United States nine times in Chess Olympiads from 1952 to 1976 and won seven medals.
He was the chess columnist from 1972 to 2006 for the New York Times, which ran his final column (a recounting of his 1952 victory over David Bronstein) on November 12, 2006.
Byrne worked as a university professor for many years, before becoming a chess professional in the early 1970s. Robert Byrne was a popular player on the US chess scene for many decades and will be sadly missed. Rest in Peace.
Other Byrne tributes:
Lubomir Kavalek wrote a nice piece in his Huffington Post column: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lubomir-kavalek/chess-remembering-robert_b_3077415.html
Here is the complete game: [Event "Chicago"]
[Site "?"] [Date "1973.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Reshevsky, Samuel"] [Black "Byrne, Robert"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "E92"] [PlyCount "80"] [EventDate "1973.??.??"] 1. c4 g6 2. Nc3 Bg7 3. d4 Nf6 4. e4 d6 5. Be2 O-O 6. Nf3 e5 7. Be3 Ng4 8. Bg5 f6 9. Bc1 f5 10. Bg5 Qe8 11. dxe5 Nxe5 12. Nxe5 Qxe5 13. exf5 Qxf5 14. Be3 Nc6 15. Qd2 Be6 16. O-O Rae8 17. b3 Bc8 18. Rad1 Qf7 19. Nd5 b6 20. f4 Nd8 21. Bf3 Ne6 22. Bg4 Nc5 23. Bxc8 Rxc8 24. f5 gxf5 25. Rxf5 Qd7 26. Rdf1 Rxf5 27. Rxf5 c6 28. Bxc5 Kh8 29. Ne7 Qxe7 30. Qxd6 Qe2 31. Rf2 Qh5 32. Be3 Re8 33. Rf3 c5 34. h3 Qh4 35. Bf2 Qe4 36. Re3 Qb1+ 37. Kh2 Rg8 38. Bg3 Qxa2 39. Be5 Qxg2+ 40. Kxg2 Bxe5+ 0-1 You can play through this game here: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1443710.
Answer:
39....Qxg2+ is a brilliant Queen sacrifice setting up 40. Kxg2 Bxe5+ with a discovered check, winning the bishop on e5, and getting back the Queen on the next move. White resigned. Happy Tactics!
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