Candidates Tournament
Tigran Petrosian vs. David Bronstein
Amsterdam - 1956
One of the all-time famous blunders. Bronstein is positionally
crushed by Petrosian's maneuvering and in the end, in terrible time
trouble, is reduced to mechanically moving a Knight back and forth
between d4 and c6. Petrosian, with plenty of time, stepped away for
a moment, and returning to the board, assumed that Bronstein had
played Nc6 again, and moved without noticing that Bronstein had
made a different move, attacking the White Queen. Once Bronstein
took the Queen off, Petrosian was so horrified that he resigned
instantly. An interested spectator picked up the clock, hoping to
see if Black could have made the additional 5 moves required to reach
the time control. Bronstein's flag fell almost instantly. A
double blunder!