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===Averbakh vs. Purdy=== {{Chess diagram | tright |Averbakh vs. Purdy, 1960 |rd| | | |kd|bd| |rd |pd| | | | | |pd|pd | | |pd| |bd|pd| | | | | | |pd| | | | | |pl| | | | | | | |pl| | | | | |pl| | |nl|pl|pl| |pl | |rl|bl| |kl| | |rl | Black to move castled queenside, with the rook traversing the attacked b8-square. }} In the game [[Yuri Averbakh]]β[[Cecil Purdy]], [[Adelaide]] 1960,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1329062 |title=Averbakh vs. Purdy, Adelaide 1960 |website=[[Chessgames.com]] }}</ref> when Purdy castled queenside, Averbakh queried the move, pointing out that the rook had passed over an attacked square. Purdy indicated e8 and c8 and said, "The king", in an attempt to explain that this was forbidden only for the king. Averbakh replied, "Only the king? Not the rook?" Averbakh's colleague [[Vladimir Bagirov]] then explained the castling rules to him in Russian, and the game continued.<ref>[[Cecil Purdy]], [https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter137.html#9621._Purdy_on_teaching_ "Doesn't Know the Moves!"], ''Chess World'', October 1960, p, 198, reproduced by [[Edward Winter (chess historian)|Edward Winter]], ''Chess Notes'' 9622</ref><ref>{{harvcol|Evans|1970|pp=38β39}}</ref><ref>{{harvcol|Lombardy|Daniels|1975|p=188}}</ref> {{clear}}
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