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Learning from Botvinnik - Donner, 1963

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Today I played a game which made me think of this game.

Botvinnik just trades the proud and main defender of the white king to weaken the c6 square so a dominant white knight will go there. A very instructive game. I am not sure but I believe I know this game from one of the paper books by Max Euwe that I read years ago.

https://lichess.org/CpHuY41p#29

Botvinnik, Mikhail (0)
1 inaccuracy
0 mistakes
0 blunders
9Average centipawn loss
**96%**Accuracy
Donner, Jan Hein (0)
2 inaccuracies
1 mistake
0 blunders
22Average centipawn loss
**90%**Accuracy

In my game I was about to thoughtlessly play Rac1 here, but then I thought of the Botvinnik game, and started to be interested in square c6. Far from flawless but I liked the sentiment and memory.

https://lichess.org/Ch1iXjp2/white#20

achja
0 inaccuracies
2 mistakes
0 blunders
26Average centipawn loss
**87%**Accuracy
XXXX1308
4 inaccuracies
1 mistake
1 blunder
49Average centipawn loss
**75%**Accuracy