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| Jaymthegenius: Didnt this girl defeat Boris Spassky very badly? Too bad she wasnt born earlier, she could have been world champion. |
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Apr-16-05
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| meloncio: Thanks <chessgames.com> for the pun. We Beatlemaniacs do appreciate this kind of little hommages. |
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| Apr-16-05 |
| bronx27: Nice way of opening up the H-File. |
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| Apr-16-05 |
| JohnTal: A great game from Judit - in my best style. However, I would have played 24 Qh6 ending all resistance with mate threats at h7 and h8. Both attempts to protect h7 fail against h8 - and moving the f pawn allows mate at h7.Furthermore, any move by the f rook still allows mate at h8. As it is, Berkes concluded that Resistance is Futile - and didn't want to pursue a long difficult ending with a R, Kt and P against Judit's Q. A great game - am I missing something?
Mischa |
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Apr-16-05
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| PivotalAnorak: 24 Qh6 Bxh1 |
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| Apr-16-05 |
| ThomYorke: Hi people. What about 17) ... Rh8 |
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| Apr-16-05 |
| Shams: <Thom Yorke> this is probably hugely flawed but after a brief look I think 17...Rh8
18.Ne5 Nxe5
19.Qxe5+ f6
20.gxf6+ Bxf6
21.Rxh8!
wins for white, the key line being 21...Kxh8 22.Qh2+ and 23.Rh1 or something like that |
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| Apr-16-05 |
| soberknight: 21 Kb1 Kg7! 22 Qh7+ Kf6 23 Nxg5 Bxe4! 24 Nxe4+ Ke7 leaves Black a rook ahead with a safe king. |
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| Apr-18-05 |
| JohnTal: A horrific goof on my part - I knew/suspected the Judit had a better reason to take the Bishop, but I missed the obvious. Many thanks Pivotal - serves me right for being hasty. |
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| May-21-05 |
| schnarre: The Burn Variation of the French seems okay at first, but White shouldn't have any real difficulty beating it! |
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| Oct-08-05 |
| ConfusedPatzer: I can't believe how ignorant and just plain retarded Fischer and Kasparov are when it comes to anything other than chess! They should put up their pictures next to the dictionary definition of idiot savant. |
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Oct-12-05
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| Karpova: @ConfusedPatzer
What does Kasparov's and Fischer's ignorance have to do with this game? |
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| Nov-18-05 |
| catfriend: I'd guess he means their opinions about women playing chess. |
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| Jan-13-06 |
| schnarre: <catfriend> Perhaps!? |
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| Mar-16-06 |
| Whitehat1963: One of my favorite games from the Player of the Day. |
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| Jun-23-06 |
| vizir: 14. g4 ! exellent move I'll remember it |
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| Jun-23-06 |
| RookFile: Yeah, I remember Karpov made a move like this once. |
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| Jun-23-06 |
| mack: <I can't believe how ignorant and just plain retarded Fischer and Kasparov are when it comes to anything other than chess!> Fischer may turn into a babbling anti-semite the moment the topic veers away from chess - and half the time, when it's on chess too - but so far as Kaspy's concerned, that's bollocks mate. I've heard him speak extremely eloquently on all manner of things - football, politics, history, Shrek 2. |
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Jun-23-06
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| notyetagm: <vizir: 14. g4 ! exellent move I'll remember it> Yes, this pawn move 14 g4! is the whole point of the knight sacrifice. Now that the pawn structure on the kingside is White g4-pawn versus Black g5-pawn, White -cannot- be stopped from opening the h-file after an eventual h2-h4. Note that Black is unable to keep the h-file closed after h2-h4 by playing ... g5-g4 precisely because the Black g5-pawn is blockaded by the White g4-pawn. What is the proper terminlogy for this pawn formation, White g4-pawn versus Black g5-pawn, followed by h2-h4 and the opening of the h-file for White by either h4xg5 or ... g5xh4? I believe this pawn structure is called a "pawn lever" but I am not sure. |
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Jun-23-06
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| notyetagm: <Sneaky: HOLY MOLY!! What an idea! For a long time I've been a big fan of dangling pieces on the kingside, en prise, with the idea that the opening of the h-file in these opposite-side-castling games is worth a whole piece. It's the perfect passive sacrifice: Black has two choices ... (a) take my piece and let me open your king to viscious attack, or (b) don't take my piece, in which case it will participate in a viscious attack. But I would never have the gall to do it in the way that Judit did here. She gives up the piece and THEN begins to slowly work on prying the file open. Wow! I think I'm going to look for this motif in the future.> Very well said. That's why this game won a Chess Informant Best Game Prize. The whole concept is tremendous. It's not the typical  f3-g5 h6xg5 h4xg5 piece sacrifice which opens the h-file immediately. She sacrifices a whole piece just to get the White g4-pawn versus Black g5-pawn pawn structure, so she can open the h-file later! And she had to see that Black would have no adequate defense in the resulting position. Brilliant. |
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Oct-15-07
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| notyetagm: Position after 13 ... h6xg5?! 14 g2-g4!:
click for larger viewPolgar has just sacrificed a whole piece(!) (a ) on g5 in order to form the <PAWN LEVER> of Black g5-pawn versus White g4-pawn, with the goal of eventually opening the h-file with h2-h4. I read at the time of this game that this idea (a piece sacrifice to create a <PAWN LEVER>) was first played in a game by the great Adolf Anderssen. Does anyone know which Anderseen game this is? Thanks
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| Feb-07-08 |
| soberknight: I'm astounded by the depth of the Informator analysis provided by Benjamin Lau (though, for Informator, it's up to their standard). It's been a long time since I analyzed a tactical game in such depth. I teach a chess class once a week, and I've been doing a "Game of the week" with the classic favorites: Anderssen's Immortal and Evergreen games, Fischer's Game of the Century, Morphy's Opera House Game, and Rubinstein's Immortal (not in that order). One of my students asked for a game in this century, and I decided to teach this game next Monday. I hope he will not be disappointed. I certainly think the quality of play is on par, or better, than some of the old classic favorites. |
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Jun-03-08
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| arsen387: Fascinating attack by Polgar, as usual. As much as my chess knowledge lets me to judge, 14.Bxa8? drops the Q quickly after 14..g4 and as the N moves then 15..Bg5. That means Judit planned that sac before she played 12.Bh7+. Also the opening of the h file is unavoidable. If black instead of 15..g6 tries 15..gxh4 then 16.Nxh4 Bxh4 17.g5! followed by 18.Rxh4+ again opens the h file with check and with better attack than the text. Great done by Judit! Blacks got 'Burned' in this Burn variation of French. |
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| Oct-03-09 |
| WhiteRook48: Polgar is a genius! |
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| Oct-03-09 |
| chillowack: <notyetagm: Polgar has just sacrificed a whole piece(!) (a N) on g5 in order to form the <PAWN LEVER> of Black g5-pawn versus White g4-pawn, with the goal of eventually opening the h-file with h2-h4.> This terminology, "the pawn lever of g5 vs. g4," is not correct: the "pawn lever" exists only after h2-h4, which creates the possibility of "prying" open the h-file with hxg. With just g4 facing g5, that's not yet a pawn lever. That's just two pawns facing each other: there's no leverage there. For a very helpful discussion of pawn levers (and all other pawn-related stuff), I recommend Hans Kmoch's classic *Pawn Power in Chess*, which Anand once cited as one of his favorite books. |
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