This is one of my favorite Petrosian games, combining 2(!) of his patented positional exchange sacs and a demonstration of his often overlooked tactical ability. Thanks for sharing the game and your excellent instructional commentary.

One can imagine the pleasure to play such a game with such a final comb. Great Tigran! The poor Knight in a5 of the Panno variation was a mere spectator of the masterpiece!

Those two Championship Matches between Petrosian and Spassky are reason enough to show that long matches for the Title of Champion should be used today instead of the mini matches they have used so often. In 69' Boris got a lead then Tigran stormed back but Boris ended up winning. This means that the severe pressure that Magnus felt in short matches would not occur as that 69' match shows once behind one can still have enough games left to make a comeback. It also makes for better Chess. Thanks for the good show!!

Exactly right, pure elegance by "Iron Tigran!"-My Hero!!!

Hijacking the diagonals! This masterpiece is one of Petrosian's immortal games. I can't say enough about it!

Another very nice video. Your excellent commentary, well-chosen games, and player/match history are all very much appreciated. In my top two favorite chess channels. Sometimes the much longer videos of other channels and their deeper game analysis can be interesting, but sometimes it's also inconvenient to have to spend 25-45 minutes on a video. You always do a great job packing a lot into succinct videos. Thank you!

Poor Spassky. A brilliant player, but between Petrosian and Fisher I bet he spent a lot of time staring at the board and going WTF just happened?

10:20 saw this position in a chess book and i knew it was from this game because of the video

Thanks for bringing this game back. At some point I noticed I knew it and the beautiful motive of pulling the king in the royal fork. Very nice!

Thanks for another great video ChessDawg.

Incredible game! It's a masterpiece where Petrosian adopts Alekhine's style, which must have been quite surprising for Spassky.

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f4?? Queen f6!? Better is Rook a7!

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Great game! Thanks for illuminating it.🙏🙂

Thank you for good content.

What a game! I knew the combination, but to watch the video made me remind that Tigran was a superb player. The books about his games are worth any price.

I'm blessed that I found this channel. Every upload is entertaining and instructive. Thank you for all the work and passion you put into it.

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Without a doubt one of the best chess channels. There is something very wholesome about his videos that I cannot explain :)

I get the feeling you would be a really good chess coach/teacher, do you have any videos of you doing that?

Wow. Fantastic

excellent game great calculation by Petrosian

Nice analysis. Thank you! Unfortunately Stockfish is now so strong that it immediately shows the two quality sacrifices and of course the final combination. The computers have taken away the secrets of our game...

Amazing 🎉

thanks brother

Wow spectacular game. How do you even envision those tactics that far ahead??

WoW ! what a great tacticien he was !

p - pressure

At 6:04 , if white takes f4:e5 then black wins with ...Qd8-g5+

who needs rooks right? lol and hey, take my queen with my knight jumping in

And the nice thing is that in the final position, Black can't even win the pawn on c4, not that it would help if he could.

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Very clear and nice explanation. Thank you. Petro planned that from move one! jk

this reminds me of a game of efim geller... but instead of taking back with the pawn (gxf5 by black) Black played e4! and a brilliant game followed.

I really don't understand why Spasky didn't activate queen sooner, no need to mention that ridiculous knight on a5...

The queen sac was beautiful

Just judging by this game, Petrosian was the better player of the two by far in this match. Spasski never saw it coming, had no chance to turn the tables earlier on, just stubbornly sticking to his plan, that thus didn’t work?

Its not a king indian def....Its a king indian game.Because both side fiancettoed there bishop

I made my reserch and whitdraw my affirmation. sorry!