![]() Bronstein saw this line 37.Rxe4 38 fxe4 Nxe4 39. ![]() This was all Petrosian needed to secure the point. Gligoric plays a safer bet by dropping pawns on the queen side to open up for attacking potential but under time pressure, Gligoric didn’t play a sharp line involving a rook sacrifice in the position. Around move 18, however, Petrosian lures Gligoric to open the King side. The game takes on a familiar kingside space advantage for Black versus a queenside space advantage for white seen in these KID positions. ![]() In round 19, he plays white against Gligoric’s King’s Indian Defense. After a series of exchanges, he finds a better endgame and wins. This allows White to gain control of the center and, in particular, the d-file. Instead of playing to control c4, Petrosian shifts gear and focuses on e4. The Tiger pounces as he builds a huge canon on the c-file and eats one of White’s pieces. This causes white to exchange on the wrong square leaving white with a weakened knight and dark squares. He slowly builds up a solid center and baits White with two central pawns. In round 9 against, Szabo, he plays a solid Orthodox QGD Tartakower variation. This is most obvious in his solid and cautious style of play at Zurich. He earned his nickname “Iron Tiger” because of his reputation of having impenetrable defenses which guaranteed safety above all else. In 1952, he was titled international Gandmaster and also got married to Rona Yakovlevna Avinezar. At 17 he was already competing for candidates matches but didn’t quite make it in the big leagues until he moved to Moscow in 1949. A year following, Petrosian won the title of Armenian Champion. He had some impressive results at the age of 16, when he shared 1st-3rd place at the 4th USSR Junior championship at Leningrad in 1945. He learned the came of chess at eight after entering a local chess school in his home town. Born in Tbilisi, Georgia ( USSR) on June 17, 1929, made him 24 at the time of the candidates match of Zurich in 1953.
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