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Veteran Grandmaster and theoretician Eduard Yefemovich Gufeld passed
away in Los Angeles, USA. Eduard Gufeld was born on 19th March 1936 and died
on 23rd September 2002. He had a long association with India,
playing several GM tournaments in India, two decades back and was
also the Indian coach for Olympiads. He has authored lot of books
and his contribution to chess theory is invaluable. Given below are
three of his famous victories against World Champions.
Eduard Gufeld -
Mikhail Tal
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. Bxc6 dxc6 6. d3 Nd7 7. Nbd2 Be7 8.
Nc4 Bf6 9. Qe2 c5 10. Bd2 O-O 11. g4 b5 12. Ne3 g6 13. h4 Nb8 14. O-O-O Nc6 15.
Rdg1 Be6 16. Kb1 Nb4 17. Bxb4 cxb4 18. g5 Bg7 19. Ng4 f5 20. gxf6 Bxg4 21. Rxg4
Qxf6 22. Rh3 a5 23. h5 Ra6 24. hxg6 hxg6 25. Rg2 b3 26. axb3 a4 27. Nh4 axb3
28. Rxg6 Rfa8 29. cxb3 Qf7 30. Rxg7+ Kxg7 31. Nf5+ Kg8 32. Qg4+ Rg6 33. Ne7+
Kg7 34. Nxg6 Qxb3 35. Nxe5+ Kf6 36. Qg6+ Kxe5 37. d4+ 1-0
Eduard Gufeld -
Boris Spassky
1. e4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d5 3. e5 Nfd7 4. d4 e6 5. Nf3 c5 6. dxc5 Nc6 7. Bf4 Bxc5 8.
Bd3 h6 9. Bg3 a6 10. O-O b5 11. Re1 O-O 12. Ne2 b4 13. c3 bxc3 14. bxc3 a5 15.
Nf4 Ba6 16. Bc2 Rc8 17. Qd2 Re8 18. Nh5 Bf8 19. Rac1 Ne7 20. Nd4 Nc5 21. Bh4
Qd7 22. Bxe7 Qxe7 23. Re3 Red8 24. Rg3 Kh8 25. Qf4 Nd7 26. Ba4 Nxe5 27. Qxe5
Qc7 28. Qe3 e5 29. Nf3 e4 30. Qd4 exf3 31. Rxg7 Qc5 32. Qg4 Rd6 33. Rg8+ Kh7
34. Bc2+ 1-0
Vassily Smyslov
- Eduard Gufeld
1. c4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. b4 Bg7 4. Bb2 O-O 5. e3 b6 6. d4 c5 7. dxc5 bxc5 8. b5
a6 9. a4 Ne4 10. Bxg7 Kxg7 11. Qd5 Qa5+ 12. Ke2 Bb7 13. Qxb7 Nc6 14. Nfd2 Ra7
15. bxc6 Rxb7 16. cxb7 Qb4 17. Nxe4 Qb2+ 18. Nbd2 Qxa1 19. Nxc5 Rb8 20. g3 Qa3
21. Nxd7 Rxb7 22. Bh3 Qd6 23. c5 Qd5 24. f3 Rb2 25. Rd1 e6 26. c6 Qc4+ 27. Ke1
Qd3 28. Bf1 Qxe3+ 29. Be2 a5 30. f4 f6 31. c7 Rc2 32. Kf1 Rxc7 33. Nc4 Rxc4 34.
Bxc4 Qf3+ 35. Ke1 Qc3+ 0-1
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