Last week we saw one or two of the best examples of Raymond Keene at the chess board. Today we’ll continue surfing the RDK wave and have a look at a curiosity from way back when.
We join Raymondo in Round 9 of the Goglidize Memoiral tournament held in Tblisi back in December 1974.
Bohosian - Keene, Tblisi 1974
Black to play
RDK writes*:-
You can see that Black has a distinct advantage; White’s attack does not yet balance his pawn minus, and his back rank is weak. One of the very powerful ideas at Black’s disposal is … Qc6, threatening disruption with … a3 or … d4, or even … Qxc3 in favourable circumstances. Bohosian had just made his move, 36 Rg3, and pressed his clock (all normal) but then, quite unexpectedly …
So, what happened next?
WHN? Index
* The passage is taken from Becoming A Grandmaster, Batsford 1977. I have converted the descriptive notation of the original text into algebraic.
No takers? To get the ball rolling, how about the unlikely: "the clock then exploded."
ReplyDeleteWould that it were Mr/Ms Anonymous, would that it were.
ReplyDeletePerhaps we need a clue...
ReplyDeleteI do know this one, but have held back from showing off else it looks like an inside job.
ReplyDeleteIs this the ashtray incident?
ReplyDeleteJohn C
Aha! A clue! Spoiler
ReplyDelete(look for "ashtray" or "Bohosian")
1 ... Be7 2 Qh3 a3 looks good to me for Black with probable back
ReplyDeleterank problems for White.
George
Cancel my last comment,
ReplyDeleteI missed 2 Qxh5
George
The ashtray suggesters have it. A full(er) account from RDK will appear here tomorrow.
ReplyDelete[By here I mean on the blog not within these comments!]
ta for Morgan for not blowing the gaff early doors.