From Rags to Stars

Professor Mauro Berni (Genoa, Italy) shared some pages from an article by Valdo Eynard, “Božo Filipović”, published in Informazione Scacchi, Year VII, No. 2, March/April 1997, pp. 73–76. Among the many illustrious victims of Filipović was International Master Alberto Mario Giustolisi who, as Berni notes, “did very badly at the 7th Italian Team Chess Championship in Monticelli Terme (2 out of 7), but a few months later he won the 27th Italian Chess Championship in Rovigo”.
Here is the game, with my light notes.

Alberto Mario Giustolisi – Božidar Filipović
7th Italian Team Chess Championship; Monticelli Terme, April 1966
King’s Indian Defence E97

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Be2 0-0 6. Nf3 e5 7. 0-0 Nc6 8. Be3 Ng4 9. Bg5 f6 10. Bc1 Nh6 11. dxe5 dxe5 12. Be3 Qxd1 13. Raxd1. If 13. Rfxd1 then 13. ... Be6 14. Nd5 Rf7 15. h3 Bf8 16. g4 g5 17. Rac1 Kg7 18. c5 Nd8 19. Nh2 c6 20. Nc3 Ng8 21. Nf1 Rd7 22. Ng3 Rxd1+ 23. Rxd1 Kf7 24. Nf5 Ke8 25. b3 Nf7 26. Na4 Rd8 27. Rxd8+ Kxd8 28. Nb2 Be7 29. Bc4 ½–½ Wl. Schmidt – Pokojowczyk, 35th Polish Chess Championship, Kraków 1978.
13. ... Be6 14. Nd5 Rac8?! Proper seems 14. ... Rf7 15. b4 Nd8 followed by ... c7-c6.
15. b4! Bxd5 16. cxd5 Nxb4

17. Bc5?! White misses here a consequential opportunity to make his opponent’s defence much more difficult with 17. Rd2! threatening both Be3-c5 and a2-a3.
17. ... Nxa2 18. Rd3. After 18. Bxf8 Nc3 19. Bxg7 Nxe2+ 20. Kh1 Kxg7 Black, with two Pawns for the Exchange and two passed Pawns on the Queenside, should manage to hold his own.
18. ... b6 19. Bxf8 Bxf8 20. Ra1 Nb4 21. Rc3 a5 22. Bb5 Bd6 23. Bd7 Rd8 24. Be6+ Kf8 25. Nd2 Na6 26. Nc4 Bb4 27. Rf3 Kg7 28. g4 Nc5 29. g5 fxg5 30. Nxe5 Nxe6 31. dxe6 Re8 32. Rc1 Bd6

33. Nd3? A sloppy mistake by an out of form Giustolisi, which throws away the game. The critical line was 33. Nd7! Rxe6 34. e5! Rxe5! 35. Nxe5 Bxe5∞ when Black has two Echanges down but four Pawns up.
33. ... Ng4 34. Rf7+ Kg8 35. e5 Nxe5 36. Nxe5 Bxe5 37. Rc6 Bd6 38. Rd7 Rxe6 39. Rdxc7 Re1+ 40. Kg2 Bxc7 41. Rxc7 Re4 0–1.