The Sicilian Defense Trap That Even Grandmasters Miss

Tao plays with white pieces. Alexander with black. White starts with e4. Black replies back with c5. White plays knight f3. Black moves pawn to d6. White pushes the d-pawn to d4. Black captures with c5 pawn. White takes back with knight d4. Black moves his knight to f6, attacking to undefended pawn on e4. White protect with queens. Knight to c3. Black move pawn to a6. White plays improving move, black bishop to g5. Black moves pawn to e6. White moves pawn to f4, which protects bishop. Black moves dark square bishop to e7. Queen to f3, and black replies with queen c7. White castles. Black moves knight to d7. White's light square bishop move to e2, allowing to connect the rooks. Black attacks bishop on g5 square. Bishop treats back to h4. Black move pawn to b5. White plays strong move, pawn to e5, attacking to knight. Black ignores the threat and move the light square bishop to b7, attacking to white's queen. In this position, Mikhail Tao sacrifices his queen by capturing knight on f6 square. Black takes queen. White takes light square bishop, attacking to the rook. Black responds with pawn to d5, blocking the eye of the white's bishop. In this position, Tao sacrifices another piece, the knight. Knight captures e6 pawn, attacking to the queen. Black accepts white's knight. Bishop to h5 check. Black blocks with pawn g6. White captures. Black king moves to f8. Pawn takes dark square bishop, e7 check, protected by bishop. Black move the king to g7, attacking white's light square bishop. Tao move dark square bishop to g3. It looks like a mouse slip, but the game was played on board. The reason, if king captures bishop, it's discovered. Attack pawn to f5 check and wins the black queen. That's why black moves the knight to f6, ignoring the free bishop. Rook slides to e1. Black moves pawn to b4, attacking to knight. White captures pawn on e3, ignoring the threat of the black. Black captures the knight. White plays pawn to f5. Black moves queen to b7, threatening mate in one. White simple moves pawn to one square. Black moves queen to d7. White moves dark square bishop to e5, pinning the knight to king. Black sacks the queen by capturing the rook. White takes back. Black king takes bishop in g6. Rook attacks the knight. Knight treats back to h7. White captures the rook on h8. Black captures back. Tao moves rook to f8, strong move. If black captures it with knight, white pawn promotes to queen with check. So black captures with rook. White takes back by promoting to queen. Black obviously takes with knight, and pawn to e7, attacking to the knight, and threatens promoting to a queen. Black should not allow this, so he moves to king to f7. White captures the knight. Black takes back. After white king captures the pawn on c3, black resigns.