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George Duke wrote on Tue, Apr 9, 2013 04:22 PM UTC:
[Added 10.April.2013.  Right after the indicated brilliancy below, but not the first try  '23 Bxd5...', isn't there a blockbuster White has, enough of an improvement to reverse the outcome?] 

Reti versus Alekhine 1925, where does White go wrong?  Here like Botvinnik's personal best ever last game, just shy of that Alekhine says this is one of his two best tournament games ever.  So let's enable White to win instead.  Black can capture
Rook at c1, after 31 K-h2... And, unusually, the very next turn Black also
declines to capture the other Rook at d2 -- not capturing either Rook only one even guarded by Knight.

Http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1012326.  

But we need to help loser White-Reti to reverse the outcome.  By rules of post mortem parfait, permissible analysis may begin after 22 ...h4. On Move 22 Black puts the edge Pawn in jeopardy; though White himself declines that Pawn, as Black does later with those Rooks, it's the CV-definitional ''brilliancy'' to begin post-play analysis, well clear of likely-memorized insipid opening theory. What about 23 Bxd5?

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