Chess: How does Black win?

I WAS reading with interest at the Chess Scotland noticeboard of Alex McFarlane's postings on being an arbiter at the candidates' matches in Kazan. One describes visiting a cemetery, just a few hundred meters from the playing hall, and discovering the grave of one of my favourite players - and it's likely many of you have never heard of him.

Rashid Nezhmetdinov (1912-74) was 'only' an International Master but his victims read like a roll-call of all the Soviet greats who became household names, such as Tal, Spassky, Boleslavsky, Bronstein, Flohr, Geller, Kholmov, Lilienthal and Polugayevsky. He was a natural talent at both chess and draughts and he became the only man ever to hold the title of Soviet Master at both games.

Nezhmetdinov's passion though was chess, and his attacking flair was very reminiscent of a bygone romantic era. His games are simply a joy to play through, but they were not widely circulated here in the west, and it's only in the last decade or so with the publication of two (highly recommended) books on him that this unknown warrior was 'rediscovered'.

Despite his extraordinary talent he never attained the grandmaster title. GM Yuri Averbakh elaborated on why when interviewed by Dirk Jan ten Guezendam for his book 'The Day Kasparov Quit': "Nezhmetdinov had the attack, could kill anybody, including Tal. But my score against him was something like 8.5-0.5 because I did not give him any possibility for an active game. In such cases he would immediately start to spoil his position because he was looking for complications."

If only Polugaevsky had followed this sage advice.

L Polugaevsky – R Nezhmetdinov

Sochi, 1958

King's Indian Defence

1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 d6 3 Nc3 e5 4 e4 exd4 5 Qxd4 Nc6 6 Qd2 g6 7 b3 Bg7 8 Bb2 0–0 9 Bd3 Ng4 10 Nge2 Qh4 11 Ng3 Nge5 12 0–0 f5 13 f3 Bh6 14 Qd1 f4 15 Nge2 g5 16 Nd5 g4 17 g3 fxg3 18 hxg3 Qh3 19 f4 Be6 20 Bc2 Rf7 21 Kf2 Qh2+ 22 Ke3 Bxd5 23 cxd5 Nb4 24 Rh1 Rxf4! 25 Rxh2 Rf3+ 26 Kd4 Bg7 27 a4 c5+ 28 dxc6 bxc6 29 Bd3 Nexd3+ 30 Kc4 d5+ 31 exd5 cxd5+ 32 Kb5 Rb8+ 33 Ka5 Nc6+ 0-1