Since I used to admire Spassky’s old trainer Tolusch, who has a game in Cafferty’s book on the Soviet Championships, where he drops almost everything on the queenside and has to walk his king up the board in the opening before resigning, I try to avoid doing it myself. Without extensive opening preparation, something club and county players like myself are rather shy of, I could not play the move below, and would assume Kd1 is the safer bet. The alternative is so committal, you would have to be very sure it works to play it.
As mentioned, without extensive opening preparation, how could you play that? Personally, I prefer the king to stay on the back rank if possible. The game is rather interesting though, showing capitalising on an out of play queen can be decisive. ‘Sax and violence’ they call that in the link below -good title.
For concrete analysis, it can be found in one of the many publications I have purchased over the years and also forgotten all about, that being ‘The Mammoth Book of The World’s Greatest Chess Games’ by Burgess, Nunn, and Emms.
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