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Spassky & Pillsbury: Better than you Know | Games to Know by Heart - GM Ben Finegold

Grandmaster Ben Finegold shows three miniatures from Harry Nelson Pillsbury (winner of Hastings 1895) and former world champion Boris Spassky. These games aren't known by heart to many, so impress your friends when you learn them!

2017.06.15
Harry Nelson Pillsbury vs Simon Winawer, Budapest (1896): D46 Queen's Gambit Declined semi-Slav, Chigorin defence
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1002579
Bent Larsen vs Boris Spassky, USSR vs. Rest of the World (1970): A01 Nimzovich-Larsen attack, modern variation
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1128831
Boris Spassky vs Avtonomov, Soviet Junior Qualifyers (1949): D28 Queen's Gambit Accepted, classical, 7...b5
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1488147