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Please rate Keres has sacrificed a Knight and a Queen!

Paul Keres has placed a trap in the opening chess Scotch game and sacrificed a Knight and a Queen and checkmated the opponent by the knight and a bishop! Video 4 min. youtu.be/bvCzXjQtFDw
Very nice!
Keres was probably one of the strongest players never to have become WC.
Rumour was, that the Estonian Paul Keres was not allowed by the Soviet Union to become World Champion and that he had to throw games in the candidates tournament to his Russian compatriots like Vassily Smyslov.

Rumour was too, that the Jewish David Bronstein - another contender for strongest player never to have become WC - and with the same surname as Trotsky, was not allowed by the Soviet Union to become World Champion either and had to lose his match to Mikhail Botwinnik.
@C_chess_T The Communists from the country Korchnoi, but he became the champion did not help. Only then in the Soviet Union was a good place to play chess while on full state support.
I am reading were P Keres was maybe the greatest opening inventor ever, he is considered better then kasparov in that which is no small statment.
Keres was very strong, a little bit, and he would become a champion ...

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