@Smyslov_Fan: The position of Wolpert vs. Zatulovskaya was reprinted in "Das 1x1 des Endspiels" by HH Staudte and M. Milescu, wrongly giving Shakhmaty v SSSR 1960 as source (while it is 02/1961, p.45).

I am sure I've seen the Simagin-Bronstein position before, and I think it was in one of the Dvoretsky books. 

The other also looks vaguely familiar, but that's going to be harder to place. 

I'll look around and see if there's any reference to those positions in my books.

Can anyone provide the full notation for these games?


Larissa Wolpert vs Tatyana Zatulovskaya
USSR team championship 1960

The game continued 1...e4 2.fxe4 g4 3.Kxf7 g3 4.f6 g2 5.Ke8 g1Q 6.f7 and white won later. No other moves from this game have unearthed to me so far.

The interesting point is that black could have drawn the position, as found by Bondarevsky 1960, and I have used this in a study.


Vladimir Simagin vs. David Bronstein, Moscow championship 1947

Black played 1...h4 and lost: 2.Qxd6 Qg2+ 3.Kb3 h3 4.Qd7+ Kg8 5.f5 h2 6.Bg5!! h1Q 7.Qe8+ Kg7 8.Qg6+ Kf8 9.Qxf6+ Kg8 10.Qd8+ Kg7 11.Qe8+ Kg7 12.Qe7+ and black resigned.

see Winter 5746, http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter50.html

I think the game was played in the playoffs. Does anyone know the time regulations for the Moscow championship 1947 playoffs? Simagin drew with Bronstein and Rivinsky at 9/14 points but won the playoff matches (according to Wikipedia).


Sadly, a while back the Moscow Central Chess Club archivar Elisabeta Bykowa has died (March 1989 to be precise), leaving me without a connection to that club where the full notation may rest.