Kmoch

As a matter of fact, Fischer told Kmoch that it was winnable.

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Kmoch:As natural as it looks to eliminate this menacing knight, this move out to lose.

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Kmoch:" With this advance, the attack attains its sacrificial stage."

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Qxc6 - Kmoch's idea that seems to leave black without any satisfactory defense against the threat 19.dxe6 and 20.e7, but it is not as simple:

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Ne1 Kmoch believed that by attacking the bishop, white gains a decisive tempo for 20.dxe6, but after an astonishing, computer-like sacrifice, hanging two pieces at the same time, black is fine, for example: 20.

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Kmoch: Black is playing a reformed Stonewall of great originality.

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Kmoch: Here comes White's carefully prepared counter-stroke, and necessary it is.

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The legendary commentator Hans Kmoch, an Austrian International Master who settled in New York, poked fun at the name: It is a rare side-line of the Queen's Gambit Declined which dr.

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In a conversation with Kmoch, Fischer hinted on two winning variations; the third was found by computers.

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The second winning way pointed out by Fischer to Kmoch was 24...

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