Interesting Olympiad game

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  • Interesting Olympiad game

    I recently skimmed through 1,000 Canadian Olympiad games and selected a few tactical diagrams for the CFC newsletter. I'm not strong enough to select the best played games, or best moves ever but I think this one is a contender for the most interesting:

    4. Reshevsky – Yanofsky, Tel Aviv 1964
    16. a4 f5 17. Ng3 ...



    Yanofsky won on time and completed his GM title with this event (only 72 GMs in the world at that time).

    17... Nf4!? trip pawns and locking the B out temporaily.

    Does anyone know of any other interesting/unusual moves by Canadians?

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    Re: Interesting Olympiad game

    Originally posted by Erik Malmsten View Post
    I recently skimmed through 1,000 Canadian Olympiad games and selected a few tactical diagrams for the CFC newsletter. I'm not strong enough to select the best played games, or best moves ever but I think this one is a contender for the most interesting:

    Reshevsky – Yanofsky, Tel Aviv 1964
    FWIW, I left that one out of the tactics section because although it is interesting, on analysis, it's a bluff in a bad position.

    Originally posted by Erik Malmsten View Post
    Does anyone know of any other interesting/unusual moves by Canadians?

    IMHO, two of the others you sent in, both of which are included in the Olympiad issue, are excellent:

    Van der Laat Ulloa - Suttles, 1968.

    Krylov - Spraggett, 1994.



    I'd also like to find some other examples.

    Suggestions anyone?

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