The Chess Champion Soviets Erased from History

Описание: His name was erased from Soviet chess history. Yet he was one of the strongest Soviet players of his time and the winner of the Soviet Championship in 1927. He had a fantastic score against the future World Champion and the patriarch of Soviet chess, Mikhail Botvinnik — three victories, two draws, and not a single loss. Boris Spassky called him the father of Ukrainian chess and considered him more talented than Botvinnik. His name was Fedir Bohatyrchuk.
During World War II, Bohatyrchuk joined forces fighting alongside Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union. After the war, this made him a forbidden figure in the USSR — his name disappeared from books, magazines, and tournament records, becoming a taboo.
Only recently, chess historian Sergey Voronkov published a monumental two-volume book in Russian about his life and best chess games.
With this video, I’m starting a series on his best games.
In today’s game, Bohatyrchuk executes fantastic knight maneuvers and crowns his sophisticated positional play with a brilliant queen sacrifice. The final position of the game looks like a work of art.

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Steger vs Bohatirchuk, Regensburg 1946

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d6 3.Nc3 g6 4.g3 Bg7 5.Bg2 O-O 6.Nf3 Nbd7 7.O-O e5 8.dxe5 dxe5 9.Qc2 c6 10.Rd1 Qe7 11.Rb1 Nc5 12.Nd2 Ne6 13.Nf3 Ne8 14.b4 f5 15.e3 Nd6 16.c5 Nf7 17.Ne2 a5 18.a3 Nc7 19.Bb2 Be6 20.Nd2 axb4 21.axb4 Nd5 22.Ba1 Rfd8 23.Nc3 Nc7 24.Nb3 e4 25.Na5 Na6 26.Na2 Rxd1+ 27.Rxd1 Bxa1 28.Rxa1 Nxc5 29.Nc1 Nd3 30.Nxc6 Rxa1 31.Nxe7+ Kf8 32.Bf1 Rxc1 33.Nxg6+ hxg6 34.Qd2 Nfe5 35.Kg2 Nf3 36.Qe2 Bc4 0-1