Notable Games
Vasily Panov
13 celebrated games · 125 in the full archive
◈The games that made the legend
Panov – Poliak · 1934 · 1–0
Moscow 1934. A model Alekhine–Chatard Attack against the French: Panov castles long, storms the kingside, and finishes with a mating breakthrough on e6 — one of the attacking wins singled out from his own game collection.
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Panov – Yudovich · 1934 · 1–0
USSR Championship Final, Leningrad 1934. Panov meets a Caro-Kann with a direct kingside build-up, sacrifices on f5 and f7, and mates the exposed king in 31 moves.
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Panov – Kotov · 1935 · 1–0
Moscow Championship 1935. An Alekhine–Chatard Attack ground out over 50 moves against the young Alexander Kotov, later a grandmaster and USSR champion.
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Panov – Rubtsova · 1936 · 1–0
Trade Unions Championship 1936. A clean Richter-Rauzer Sicilian win over Olga Rubtsova, who would become the fourth Women's World Champion in 1956.
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Panov – Ragozin · 1937 · 1–0
USSR Championship Final, Tbilisi 1937. A crisp 31-move win against Viacheslav Ragozin in the French Winawer during Panov's strong run in the event.
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Panov – Makogonov · 1937 · 1–0
USSR Championship Final, Tbilisi 1937. A g-pawn storm in the Scheveningen Sicilian and a finishing combination that commentators called 'one for the anthologies.'
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Panov – Gothilf · 1938 · 1–0
Trade Unions Championship 1938. A 19-move Ruy Lopez miniature: Panov breaks open the kingside with a knight sacrifice and wins the queen.
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Panov – Lilienthal · 1938 · 1–0
Trade Unions Championship 1938. A Four Knights win over grandmaster Andor Lilienthal, from the year of Panov's greatest tournament triumph at Kiev.
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Panov – Boleslavsky · 1942 · 1–0
Moscow Championship 1942. A hard-fought 58-move Sicilian battle in which Panov outplays Isaac Boleslavsky, soon to be one of the world's leading grandmasters.
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Panov – Lilienthal · 1944 · 1–0
USSR Championship semifinal 1944. An open Ruy Lopez against Lilienthal that ends in a sacrificial king-hunt and a mating attack after 27 moves.
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Panov – Tolush · 1948 · 1–0
USSR Championship Final 1948. Panov handles the French Winawer positionally to defeat the sharp attacking grandmaster Alexander Tolush.
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Panov – Levenfish · 1948 · 1–0
USSR Championship Final 1948. A Ruy Lopez win over Grigory Levenfish, twice USSR champion and one of the Soviet school's senior masters.
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Panov – Sorokin · 1953 · 1–0
USSR Team Championship 1953. A late-career Najdorf Sicilian win, listed among Panov's notable games, finishing with a knight sacrifice on e6 and a pawn breakthrough to f6.
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