Keres versus Petrosian Draw by agreement
in 1962 candidates tournament held in curaçao determine challenger mikhail botvinnik in 1963 world championship. there evidence soviet players tigran petrosian, paul keres, , efim geller arranged draw of games between themselves. twelve games played between these 3 players short draws, averaging 19 moves (timman 2005:25ff).
this diagram shows final position shortest 1 – fourteen moves played. in 25th of 28 rounds, , final game between keres , petrosian. bobby fischer charged petrosian accepted draw when winning , jan timman agrees. petrosian went on win tournament , win championship botvinnik (timman 2005:185–86).
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