Efim Geller's Amazing Immortal Triple Queen Sacrifice Chess Game vs Vasily Smyslov!

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Instructive game tags: A fantastic attacking game from Geller against a former world chess champion Vasily Smyslov. The game opening is a Gruenfeld defence where White plays a very direct attacking plan of f4-f5 to break open lines against the black king. The diagonal a2-h7 is very dangerous for the black king, and making use of the f-file resources as well, results in a queen sacrifice at three points in the same game. The queen sac is totally sound in all instances and demonstrates White's attacking potential. When the dark squared bishop was on h6, there was also a possibility it seemed of Black taking multiple times on e4 when White played his 22nd move Ne4. But with the Queen on f4 eyeing b8, there was also a possibility of a back-row mate with Qb8+. This made Ne4 a very powerful move indeed. And when the Knight on e4 was finally taken, this led to the first Queen sacrifice! A superb attacking gem from Efim Geller. One of his finest immortal notable games!

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[Event "Geller - Smyslov Candidates Quarterfinal"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1965.04.24"]
[EventDate "1965.04.??"]
[Round "5"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Efim Geller"]
[Black "Vasily Smyslov"]
[ECO "D87"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "61"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7
7.Bc4 c5 8.Ne2 O-O 9.O-O Nc6 10.Be3 Qc7 11.Rc1 Rd8 12.f4 e6
13.Kh1 b6 14.f5 Na5 15.Bd3 exf5 16.exf5 Bb7 17.Qd2 Re8 18.Ng3
Qc6 19.Rf2 Rad8 20.Bh6 Bh8 21.Qf4 Rd7 22.Ne4 c4 23.Bc2 Rde7
24.Rcf1 Rxe4 25.fxg6 f6 26.Qg5 Qd7 27.Kg1 Bg7 28.Rxf6 Rg4
29.gxh7+ Kh8 30.Bxg7+ Qxg7 31.Qxg4 1-0

Who is Geller ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efim_Ge...

Efim Petrovich Geller (Russian: Ефим Петрович Геллер, Ukrainian: Юхим Петрович Геллер; 8 March 1925 – 17 November 1998) was a Ukrainian chess player and world-class grandmaster at his peak. He won the Soviet Championship twice (in 1955 and 1979) and was a Candidate for the World Championship on six occasions (1953, 1956, 1962, 1965, 1968, and 1971). He won four Ukrainian Championship titles (in 1950, 1957, 1958, and 1959) and shared first in the 1991 World Seniors' Championship, winning the title outright in 1992.

Geller was coach to World Champions Boris Spassky and Anatoly Karpov. He was also an author.[1]

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Geller began to make his mark in the late 1940s, as he won the USSR Championship semifinal qualifier at Tbilisi 1949 with 11½/16, thus advancing to the final later that year. His finals debut was sensational at URS-ch17 at Moscow; as a virtual unknown he tied for 3rd–4th places with 12½/19, behind only winners David Bronstein and Vasily Smyslov. Geller defeated such established players as Semyon Furman, Isaac Boleslavsky, Alexander Kotov, Salo Flohr, fellow finals debutant Tigran Petrosian, Viacheslav Ragozin, and Grigory Levenfish. Despite this showing, he was obliged to return to the semifinal level the next year, but advanced with a third-place finish in the 1950 qualifier at Kiev with 9/15. At URS-ch18 at Moscow 1950, Geller made 9/17 for a shared 7th–10th place; the winner was Paul Keres. Also in 1950, Geller won the Ukrainian Championship at Kiev, the first of his four titles in that event; he repeated from 1957 to 1959, with all three events at Kiev. Geller in 1950 made his international debut at the Przepiorka Memorial at Iwonicz Zdroj with 11½/19 for seventh place in a powerful field; Keres won again.

Geller is reckoned to have been among the best ten players in the world for around twenty years. He was awarded the International Master title in 1951, and the International Grandmaster title the following year.
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Who is Smyslov ?

Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov (Russian: Василий Васильевич Смыслов; 24 March 1921 – 27 March 2010)[1] was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster, who was World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958. He was a Candidate for the World Chess Championship on eight occasions (1948, 1950, 1953, 1956, 1959, 1965, 1983, and 1985). Smyslov twice tied for first place at the Soviet Championships (1949, 1955), and his total of 17 Chess Olympiad medals won is an all-time record. In five European Team Championships, Smyslov won ten gold medals.

Smyslov remained active and successful in competitive chess well after the age of sixty. Despite failing eyesight, he remained active in the occasional composition of chess problems and studies until shortly before his death in 2010. Besides chess, he was an accomplished baritone singer.
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