Vadim Ruban - Judit Polgar, PCA Qualifiers 1993

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Analysis by Fritz 12 (30.? White to move):

After all, 24. Nf1 challenges for control of the open file and brings a piece to defense of the King side. What could possibly go wrong? A brilliant move by Judit Polgar, that even the computers initially have trouble seeing, is what goes wrong for White.

Instead of 24. Nf1 ??, Fritz 12 at 20/50 depth assesses 24. Re2 = as level:

Vadim Ruban - Judit Polgar, PCA Qualifiers 1993

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Analysis by Fritz 12 (24.?) White to move:

1. = (0.00): 24.Re2 Bc8 25.Qa4 Rf6 26.Qxa7 Rh6 27.Kf1 Rd4 28.Qc5 Qh1+ 29.Kf2 Qh4+

2. (-0.30): 24.fxg4 Rxd2 25.Re2 Rxd1+ 26.Qxd1 Rd8 27.Rd2 Rxd2 28.Qxd2 Qxg4 29.a3 Bf6 30.Qd6 Kg7 31.Kf1 Kg6 32.Qb8 f3 33.Qg8+ Kh5

Oh well, as a bit of interest, Polgar noted the following in Informator 59/605.

24. fxg4 Rxd2 25. Re2 Rxd1 26. Qxd1 Qxg4" "

24. Re2!? Be6 25. Qxb7 Re6 with the ideas Rg8 and Rh6 and attack.

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27 ... Rd2
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29. Rg1 Rxg1+
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When the sisters were just getting known CHESS did a 4 page spread on them.

I fired off a letter saying something like 'big deal three girls can play chess, we will probably never hear of them again. Was it worth dropping four pages of games for this article?' (or words to that effect.)

Thank Heavens B.H.Wood, the then editor, never published the letter.

hi chrisowen,

"....or donkey up in light walks the walk it worm a fine gain to be had good in cupboard it ardent in as checkers..."

True. So yes, I messed it up. Thanks.

Nice thought for a Monday:

I often listen to post-match interviews with the top players of a given sport.

Maybe that endgame isn't so clear after all because 27...Qxd1 28. Nxd1 allows the Knight to go to the better square d3 via f2. I would presume Judit would have kept Queens.

Checking with Fritz 12, and letting it run for 10 minutes, it actually prefers a rook move, other than 26...Rd8 (line 2 in your earlier post), to Judit's suggested 26...Qxg4. So, it seems she need not have been in a hurry to recapture the g4-pawn, thus keeping pieces and pressure.

Incidentally, this unpromising course is just what chess programs such as Stockfish recommend for Black, even today.

At the same time, other engine suggestions are quite interesting, such as 18.b4 refusing to open the h-file for black and just getting on with his own plans as outlined above [After 18...h4 Black would still have chances on the kingside], and especially 17...exf4, which eyes a wholly different type of compensation for the pawn in the form of piece play ( ...Ne5 etc.)and gets much better computer evaluations than 17...gxf4.