drukenknight: Drunk's brew of the day. Here's another interesting exercise in pawn counting that's very simlar to the Anti Meran game (Denker/Botwinnik) we are discussing. This variation of Sicilian (9...g5) is known as Goteborg and it is based on three games played on the same day in 1955, this is one of them. The other two were Keres/Najdorf and Panno/Geller. The argentines came up with a new move to spring but they all lost anyhow on this day.
It seems to me that when white captures the pawn he is up by 1 pt. Then he immediately sacks the N; 11 Nxe6 which causes him to be behind by one pt. But no matter, he is down by one pt. but he has opened an attack on the K. Makes sense: drop material go on attack. So it seems that Spassky and friends were simply playing on general principles on this day when they refuted this opening.
It seems to me that when black retreats the N, he cuts off the B from the pawn. Allowing white to drop material and go on the attack. What if 10...Nh6? which if white then takes Nxe6 he can recapture with the B and remain down 1 pt. Perhaps then he will have better attacking chances?
Sneaky what do you say? You have different ideas about value of pawns, obviously.
sac: 11.Nxe6
