The Greatest Attacker in Chess

[Damir]

But he lost to Yuri Averbakh so it could be that Yuri Averbakh was actually a better player.

An explanation for his lack of universal success was offered by fellow master Yuri Averbakh who said, "if he had the attack, could kill anybody, including Tal. But my score against him was something like 8½–0½ because I did not give him any possibility for an active game. In such cases he would immediately start to spoil his position because he was looking for complications."

[Cornfed]

I have the old book: Super Nezh by some ICCF 'Master'. It was fun to go thru. I'm sure Cyrus's book would be a MUCH more fun read though!

[Ajedrecista]

Hello:

I thought in Nezhmetdinov when I read the title of the topic... it just had to be him.

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Regarding two positions posted in the thread:

[d]rnb1k2r/pppp2pp/4pq2/2b5/2B5/2P4N/PP2QPPP/R1B1K2R w KQkq - 0 1

I would castle without any doubt. My style is opposite than Nezh's and more like Petrosian's, but I can be easily 1000 Elo lower for some reason. Why?

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[d]3r1rk1/2p2ppp/p1N5/3pP3/1p6/2P2bq1/PPB3P1/RNQ3RK w - - 0 20

The position shown at 'Chess Tactics from Scratch' front page comes from a variant of the following game:

Gelbmann ½ — ½ Gyimesi. European U-20 Championship, Siófok (Hungary), 1996.

[pgn][Event "EU-ch U20"]
[Site "Siófok (Hungary)"]
[Round "1"]
[Date "??/??/1996"]
[White "Gelbmann, Norbert"]
[Black "Gyimesi, Zoltan"]
[WhiteElo "2300"]
[BlackElo "2480"]
[ECO "C80"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[PlyCount "51"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Nxe4
6.d4 b5 7.Bb3 d5 8.dxe5 Be6 9.Re1 Bc5 10.Be3 O-O
11.c3 Qe7 12.Bc2 Rad8 13.Bxc5 Qxc5 14.Nd4 b4 15.Nxc6 Qxf2+
16.Kh1 Bg4 17.Qc1 Bf3 18.gxf3 (18. Rg1 Ng3+ 19. hxg3 Qxg3 20. Qh6 gxh6 21. gxf3) Qxf3+ 19.Kg1 Qg4+ 20.Kf1 Qf5+
21.Ke2 Qf2+ 22.Kd1 Qf3+ 23.Re2 Qf1+ 24.Re1 Qf3+ 25.Re2 Qf1+
26.Re1 1/2-1/2[/pgn]

After 17.- ..., Bf3, the game went 18.- gxf3, Qxf3+ and a draw was agreed shortly after perpetual check. If white would had played 18.- Rg1, a possibility could had been 18.- ..., Ng3+; 19.- hxg3, Qxg3, that is the position of the front cover with the amazing solution 20.- Qh6, gxh6; 21.- gxf3.

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Regards from Spain.

Ajedrecista.

[reflectionofpower]

I forgot I had a link to his games in my book marks https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessco ... id=1012972

[Damir]

This post is 2 years old...sorry for resurrecting it after so long. I could not wait to post a very nice youtube video about the man himself.... The man, the myth, the legend Rashid Nezhmetdinov.