i open with the
king’s pawn (aggressive) and walk
into the dark and
the somewhat doubtful
aljechin defence
(more
beautiful than lu
pins) that is to say
black knight to f6
and my
serbian oppo
nent also has at
tack in his
thoughts i begin
my counter-attack
we follow the main
variant to black
knight d
7 (bent larsen’s
move against mikhail
tal as dangerous as
wild
roses) it is here
that the white knight is
to be sacrificed
which i
do as the theory
advises (but in
correctly then
calls the po
sition unresolved)
the game now contin
ues with the
necessary
forced moves (into the
wilderness) to the
decisive fourteenth
move that
is to say the black
queen from d8 is
moved to a5 (origin
ally discovered
by a swede but most
ly accredited to
the
russian bagirov
after a quiet in
termediate move
(deep in
to the shadows) the
sword’s blow then falls that
move which i have
patiently
been waiting to car
ry out in real
ity after lengthy a
nalyses done at
home – i now move the
white pawn forward
two squares from
a2 to a4
two exclamation
marks – for even
though the move
doesn’t look like much
it gives a win in
all the variants
(as is
often the case) see
the position in
the appendix and
try for
yourself to find the
decisive move that
leads to the win
before read
ing the solution
i have chosen to
incorporate this
game in
the collection here
because it makes up
my humble
contribution
to chess theory
and i hope that pre
cisely as a poem
it
will survive in the
rose-garden of mem
ory a bit longer
than
it otherwise would
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