Sample Games: The Gambit takes Shape!
My older and close friend Oleg Kruglov was a Russian chess expert, my second of that time and great promoter of the royal game in general. Chess was his beloved hobby, for he had a solid industrial profession. Later, when Gorby, Perestroika and Russian reforms arrived, Oleg became a prominent politician in Borovichi, the town of my childhood. This was the first official game where Nikolayev gambit was played.
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