Georgy Borisenko
Notable Games

Georgy Borisenko

16 celebrated games · 146 in the full archive
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Notable Games

  • 1949 Borisenko, Georgy Konstantinov vsFurman, Semen Abramovich 1-0 Semi-Slav Defense: Anti-Moscow Gambit 24 moves Leningrad-ch23 Leningrad championship 1949 — the earliest game in an archive that runs to 1998, against Semen Furman, later Anatoly Karpov's trainer and a study player here. Twenty-four moves of Anti-Moscow Gambit: 16.e5 Bxe5 17.Be2 Ke7 18.Bg4 chases the king into the open, and 22.Qh7+ Kf6 23.Qxh6+ Ke7 24.Qxg5+ ends it.
  • 1950 Korchnoi, Viktor Lvovich vsBorisenko, Georgy Konstantinov 0-1 King's Gambit Accepted: King's Knight's Gambit 38 moves URS-ch18 Semifinal USSR Championship semifinal 1950 with Black — a nineteen-year-old Viktor Korchnoi, twenty-eight years from his first World Championship match, playing the King's Gambit. Borisenko returns the pawn, trades into a rook ending, and the extra pawns tell: 32...Rxc3 33.Ne5 Rxd4 34.Rxh5 Nxb4 35.Kh2 Rxc5.
  • 1950.11.22 Borisenko, Georgy Konstantinov vsSmyslov, Vasily V 1-0 Nimzo-Indian Defense: St. Petersburg Variation 43 moves URS-ch18 Final USSR Championship final 1950 against Vasily Smyslov, seven years from the world title — the first of three World Champions Borisenko beats in this archive. Smyslov takes pawns on a4 and e4 while the kingside is prised open with g4 and h5; the queens come off at 36.Bxe4 Bxh3 37.Nxh4, and 40.Bxd6 and 41.Nf5 leave the d-pawn unstoppable.
  • 1950.11.24 Borisenko, Georgy Konstantinov vsGeller, Efim P 1-0 King's Indian Defense: Fianchetto Variation, Classical Variation 43 moves URS-ch18 Final Two days later in the same championship, Efim Geller, later a six-time Candidate. A fianchetto King's Indian in which the black rooks reach the second rank and it does not matter: 29.Nd5 Rxf2 30.Ne7+ Kh8 31.Kxf2 forks the queen and the c8 bishop, and 32.Nxc8 collects.
  • 1955.03.05 Geller, Efim P vsBorisenko, Georgy Konstantinov 0-1 Nimzo-Indian Defense: Rubinstein System 64 moves URS-ch22 Final USSR Championship final 1955, Geller again and now with Black. Sixty-four moves: 47.Qxf5 Nxf5 takes the queens off, 53.d5 Ne4+ 54.Kf4 Nxd6 removes the last passed pawn, and 59.Rxf8+ Kxf8 leaves a knight against a bishop that cannot stop the h-pawn falling.
  • 1955.03.11 Borisenko, Georgy Konstantinov vsSpassky, Boris Vasilievich 1-0 Nimzo-Indian Defense: St. Petersburg Variation 42 moves URS-ch22 Final Six days later, an eighteen-year-old Boris Spassky, in the year he became the world's youngest grandmaster. Borisenko simply takes the h-pawn with 27.Bxh6 Qf6 28.Be3 and lets the black queen roam; the rooks swing across at 32.Rf4 and 36.Rh4, and 37.Qh7+ Kf7 40.Qg6+ Kf8 41.Rh4 finishes.
  • 1955.11.19 Borisenko, Georgy Konstantinov vsTal, Mikhail 1-0 Benoni Defense 41 moves URS-ch23 Semifinal USSR Championship semifinal 1955 against a nineteen-year-old Mikhail Tal, five years from the world title. A Benoni where the e-pawn walks the length of the board: 30.e5 Rb7 31.e6 Nh6, the rooks come off at 33.Rxb7 Rxb7 34.Bc4, and 39.e7 Kf7 40.Bh4 Qd4 41.e8=Q+ promotes with check.
  • 1956.01.15 Borisenko, Georgy Konstantinov vsPolugaevsky, Lev 1-0 Benoni Defense 41 moves URS-ch23 Final USSR Championship final 1956 against Lev Polugaevsky, later three times a Candidate. Another Benoni: 29.Rb7 and 30.Be6+ Kh8 lock the black king in the corner, Polugaevsky gives a knight for the attack with 32...Nxf4 33.gxf4 Qxf4, and 38.Qxe4 Rf1+ 39.Kg2 Rxe1 40.Qxd3 ends it a piece up.
  • 1956.11 Borisenko, Georgy Konstantinov vsNezhmetdinov, Rashid 1-0 King's Indian Defense: Averbakh Variation, Benoni Defense 41 moves URS-ch24 Semifinal USSR Championship semifinal 1956 against Rashid Nezhmetdinov — the great Soviet attacking player, and a study player here. Borisenko gives back the exchange with 25.f5 Rxe4 26.Bxe4 Nxg5 to keep the pawn on f5, pushes 30.f6 to bury the black king, and wins the queen ending at 39.Qg4+ Qxg4 40.hxg4 and 41.Rxh4.
  • 1957.12.08 Borisenko, Georgy Konstantinov vsSimagin, Vladimir Pavlovich 1-0 Queen's Pawn Game 79 moves URS-ch25 Semifinal USSR Championship semifinal 1957 against Vladimir Simagin, also a study player here — seventy-nine moves, and the last thirty are a queen ending with the white king walking into the checks. 65.Qxc5 gives up the last pawn shelter, and after 75.Qxf7 Qxd1+ Borisenko simply outruns the checks to 79.Qf4.
  • 1958 Spassky, Boris Vasilievich vsBorisenko, Georgy Konstantinov 0-1 Queen's Gambit Declined: Queen's Knight Variation 58 moves URS-ch26 Semifinal USSR Championship semifinal 1958, Spassky again and this time with Black. The knights do everything: 39...Nf2+ 40.Kg1 Nd1+ 41.Kh1 Nxe4, then 42...Ndf2+ 43.Bxf2 Nxf2+ 44.Kg1 Ne4+ 45.Kh1 Nxg3+ 46.hxg3 Qh5+ strips the white king of every pawn in front of it.
  • 1960 Borisenko, Georgy Konstantinov vsDoda, Zbigniew 1-0 King's Indian Defense: Orthodox Variation, Donner Defense 124 moves Baltic Nations Baltic Nations tournament 1960 against the Polish champion Zbigniew Doda — 124 moves, the longest game in the archive. A queen ending for the last fifty in which the white king is checked from a6 to c8 and back again, and Borisenko finally forces the trade himself: 116.Qc6 Qf7+ and 124.Qd6.
  • 1961.01.26 Bronstein, David Ionovich vsBorisenko, Georgy Konstantinov 0-1 Petrov's Defense: Modern Attack 64 moves URS-ch28 Final & Zonal USSR Championship final and Zonal, 1961 — with Black against David Bronstein, who a decade earlier had tied a World Championship match with Botvinnik. Borisenko plays Petrov's Defence and wins a knight race: 49.Nxc6+ Kd7 50.Nxa7 Nxg3+ starts it, and 58.Nb5 h3 59.c7+ Kc8 60.Kd6 Nf5+ 61.Kc6 Ne7+ stops the c-pawn while the h-pawn goes through.
  • 1967.12 Furman, Semen Abramovich vsBorisenko, Georgy Konstantinov 0-1 Old Indian Defense: Tartakower-Indian 28 moves URS-ch35 Final USSR Championship final 1967, Furman again and eighteen years on. Twenty-eight moves with Black: Furman gives up castling with 14.Kf1 and never recovers the initiative, the knights land on d3 and f4, and 21...O-O — castling on move twenty-one, into a won position — says everything about the two kings.
  • 1971.05 Figler, Ilya vsBorisenko, Georgy Konstantinov 0-1 Petrov's Defense: Modern Attack 16 moves URS-ch39 Semifinal USSR Championship semifinal 1971 — sixteen moves, the shortest game in the archive, and Petrov's Defence again. 10...Qh4 11.h3 h5 sets it up, 13...hxg4 14.hxg4 Qxh1+ 15.Bxh1 Rxh1+ wins a whole rook, and Borisenko finishes by castling queenside: 16.Kd2 O-O-O.
  • 1998.11.19 Lim, Kok Ann vsBorisenko, Georgy Konstantinov 0-1 Slav Defense: Quiet Variation, Schallopp Defense 18 moves Wch Seniors 08th World Seniors Championship 1998 — the last game in the archive, forty-nine years after the first, with Borisenko at seventy-six. Eighteen moves, and it ends exactly like the 1971 miniature: 13...Nxg4 14.e4 Nxe5 15.fxe5 Bh4+ 16.Kd1 Bg6 17.Bc2 Bh5+ 18.Ne2 O-O-O, castling queenside with the game already decided.
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