Efim Bogolyubow is one of my favourite players of the 1920s and 1930s. Search out the most exciting games of the top pre-2nd World War players and you're bound to find a game against Bogolyubow among them! This is no exception! Bogolyubow mixes up a dull exchange Slav and Stahlberg is lured into an unsound piece sacrifice. However Bogolyubow loses control and Stahlberg's desperate counterplay seems about to bear fruit until...
Efim Bogolyubow is one of my favourite players of the 1920s and 1930s. Search out the most exciting games of the top pre-2nd World War players and you're bound to find a game against Bogolyubow among them! This is no exception! Bogolyubow mixes up a dull exchange Slav and Stahlberg is lured into an unsound piece sacrifice. However Bogolyubow loses control and Stahlberg's desperate counterplay seems about to bear fruit until...
Bogolyubow - Alekhine Hastings 1922. Game of the century.
Ah I don't like Bogolyubov losses! 😉