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After Keres’ rather lucky victory over Andreas Dückstein in the 5th round, he managed to score a win over Kestler that can certainly be called a “one-way affair”:
Beat the Queen's Indian: The modern Fianchetto Line
This DVD is packed full of new, exciting and novel ideas; based on a repertoire starting with the moves 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 e6 3 Nf3 with g3! to follow.
Television coverage from the Bamberg tournament
After getting four wins and two draws, Keres remains the sole leader of the standings table, closely followed by World Champion Petrosian and Borislav Ivkov. In round 6, Petrosian defeated Roman Toran, while Ivkov got the better of Andreas Dückstein.
Jan Hein Donner had joined the chasing group in the 5th round, but the Dutch grandmaster lost that status immediately. Donner was defeated by the young German International Champion Helmut Pfleger, who grew up in Bamberg and wisely used his pair of bishops to get the full point:
A Black Repertoire against Offbeat Openings
Many club players have their favourite pet opening variations which aren’t necessarily main lines. It’s important to know how to handle these variations as your opponent will likely know his systems well. In this DVD, GM Nicholas Pert provides a detailed Black repertoire against many of these Offbeat Opening choices.
The playing hall
Even at this level we see players blundering early on in their games. Heikki Westerinen needed no more than 14 moves to defeat Juergen Teufel:
| 1 | Tigran V Petrosian | 1 - 0 | Roman Toran Albero |
| 2 | Hans Guenter Kestler | 0 - 1 | Paul Keres |
| 3 | Laszlo Szabo | 1 - 0 | Klaus Klundt |
| 4 | Lothar Schmid | ½ - ½ | Wolfgang Unzicker |
| 5 | Helmut Pfleger | 1 - 0 | Jan Hein Donner |
| 6 | Milko Georgiev Bobotsov | 1 - 0 | Rudolf Teschner |
| 7 | Andreas Dueckstein | 0 - 1 | Borislav Ivkov |
| 8 | Juergen Teufel | 0 - 1 | Heikki MJ Westerinen |
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