The
names in this game probably won’t mean much to today’s players but they were
very prominent in the 1960s and 1970s.
Dragoljub Minic (April 5, 1936, Titograd, Yigoslavia (now Podgorica, Montenegro) was a
Yugoslav GM).
He tied for first in the Yugoslav Championship in 1962
with GM Alexsandar Matanovic. His career was primarily in the 1960s and 1970s.
He represented Yugoslavia many time in international tournaments and the chess
Olympics. Minic also served as a second to both GM Svetozar Gligoric and
Ljubomir Ljubojevic because of his great analytical ability. FIDE awarded him
the IM title in 1964 and the Honorary Grandmaster title in 1991.
Minic was found dead by friends in his Novi Sad apartment
on April 9, 2005, after failing to respond to phone and intercom calls for
several days. Doctors determined that he died of a heart attack approximately
four days earlier, on his 69th birthday.Albin Planinc (18 April 1944 – 20 December 2008) was a Slovenian GM. He was born in Brise near Zagorje in what was the German occupied Slovenia.
The opening in this game is the Archangelsk Variation which is one of the more aggressive, fighting variations against the Ruy Lopez. The variation was developed in the early sixties by players from the north Russian town of Archangelsk and was intensively analyzed by players from Lvov - among them Mikhalchishin and Beliavsky and in the mid to late seventies gained great popularity for the first time.
Black defines the position of this Queen's Bishop early on with 6...Bb7 in order to exert pressure against the opponent's center, in particular the point e4. White must decide whether he protects this pawn solidly with 7.d3 or goes for the unfathomable complications after 7.c3 Nxe4. Another option is 7.Re1 Bc5 8.c3 d6 9.d4 Bb6, which is closely related to the Moller System. In this game White chooses another option with 7.d4.
The game features bold, imaginative play and explodes when Planinc sacrifices his Q to create threats using his far advanced d-Pawn and when Minic went wrong it allowed Planinc a spectacular win.
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