Attack on the King and Combinations in the Middle Game by Igor Bondarevsky

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ISBN 4871874214

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И. Бондаревский Атака на короля

И. З. Бондаревский Комбинации в миттельшпиле

Attach on the King and
Combinations in the Middle Game
by Igor Zakharovich Bondarevsky

Introduction by Sam Sloan

This is a reprint of two Russian Language chess books combined into
one. The author, Igor Bondarevsky, was one of the strongest players in
the world. He served as the coach and trainer for Boris Spassky during
Spassky's matches with Tigran Petrosian where Spassky won the world
chess championship.

Igor Zakharovich Bondarevsky (Игорь Захарович Бондаревский) was born
on 12 May 1913 in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Bondarevsky was ranked among
the 15 strongest players in the world and was among the first 27
players to be awarded the grandmaster title by FIDE in 1950.

His career peak was reached in 1940 by sharing first place with Andor
Lilienthal at the 12th USSR championship in Moscow, ahead Paul Keres,
Isaac Boleslavsky and Mikhail Botvinnik.

Bondarevsky missed his big chance to play for the World Chess
Championship in 1950. He qualified to play in the World Championship
Candidates Tournament at Budapest 1950 but he was unable to play
because of illness. He died on 14 June 1979 in Pyatigorsk, Russia.

His wife Valentina Kozlovskaya born 1936 was and still is one of the
strongest woman chess players in the world. She competed in the recent
World Seniors Championship and was arbiter in the recent Russian
Junior Championship.
Alexander Kotov in his classic work “The Soviet School of Chess” ISBN
4871878198 gives two fantastic combinations by Bondarevsky, but
unfortunately the complete game scores have not been found.

They are not nearly as fantastic as the game Bondarevsky actually
player against Kotov, which is one of the greatest chess games ever
played.

[Site "Leningrad"]
[Date "1936"]
[White "Kotov, Alexander"]
[Black "Bondarevsky, Igor"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A40"]

1.d4 e6 2.Nf3 f5 3.g3 Nf6 4.Bg2 d5 5.O-O Bd6 6.c4 c6 7.Nbd2 O-O 8.b3
Qe8 9.Ne1 Nbd7 10.Nd3 Ne4 11.Nf3 Qh5 12.Nf4 Qf7 13.Qc2 g5 14.Nd3 Qh5
15.Nfe5 Rf6 16.f3 Rh6 17.h4 Nxg3 18.hxg5 Qh2+ 19.Kf2 Rh4 20.Rg1 Rxd4
21.Bb2 Qh4 22.Bxd4 Ne4+ 23.Ke3 f4# 24.Nxf4 Qf2+ 25.Kd3 Qxd4+ 26.Kxd4
Bc5+ 27.Kd3 Nxe5# 0-1
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Here Kotov's pieces just stare helplessly at the position and watch as
Bondarevsky's knights surround and checkmate Kotov's king.

Although these two books are in their original Russian, at the time
they were published all strong or aspiring chess players in the world
studied them. I happen to personally know that Bobby Fischer studied
these books. One time when I was walking with Fischer, we went into
the Four Continents Bookstore on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 18th
street across the street from the main store of Barnes & Noble.
Fischer asked to see all the chess books. The clerk in the store
opened a big file drawer with several hundred Russian chess books in
it. Fischer went through all the books in the drawer and said that he
had already read them all, as there was nothing new in there.

So, if Fischer can do it, you can do it too (if you want to be like
Fischer that is).

Sam Sloan
San Rafael California
USA
July 27, 2012

ISBN 4871874214

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