{"id":1827,"date":"2023-01-19T08:59:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T08:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forwardchess.com\/blog\/?p=1827"},"modified":"2023-02-24T11:39:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T11:39:14","slug":"samuel-reshevsky-simultaneous-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forwardchess.com\/blog\/samuel-reshevsky-simultaneous-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Reshevsky: Simultaneous Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s wrong to think of tactics successfully occurring because of super-clever moves in genuinely equal positions. For a winning combination to be possible, there must be something wrong with the other side’s position. In chess, you can’t be an attacking genius unless your opponent has been, or will be, a bit of a defensive idiot. Looking to sacrifice a piece with every move is a waste of time and nervous energy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s only the exercises in tactic books that will all have explosive solutions, and those exercises will have been carefully pre-selected from certain games. Such as the one that follows. The lesson from this game is that the winner did not play perfectly throughout, nor did the loser do the opposite. What the winner did was probe and pressurize, as best as he could, and then take the tactical opportunity if it came, which it certainly did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Samuel Reshevsky versus H. Traube, Simultaneous display (one of 20 games by White) in Hannover, Germany, early 1920<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Reshevsky giving a simultaneous exhibition in France 1920. Source: rarehistoricalphotos<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

A word about one of the players; White was an unusually small boy, only eight years old<\/strong> (it was claimed). He grew up to be Sammy Reshevsky, in chess terms a giant, who was to defeat the likes of Alekhine, Benko (six times), Botvinnik (twice), Capablanca, and Fischer (four times).<\/p>\n\n\n

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Samuel Reshevsky, age of eight. Source: chesshistory<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

1.f4<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bird’s Opening. A kind of reverse Dutch Defense (which is 1.d4 f5<\/strong>, also 1…f5<\/strong> against most things). Unusual but okay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1…e6 2.Nf3 d5 3.g3!?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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