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Judit Polgar vs Etienne Bacrot
"View from the Bacrot" (game of the day Mar-23-06)
Bastia FRA 1999  ·  Spanish Game: Morphy Defense (C78)  ·  0-1
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Mar-23-06  ChessPieceFace: as someone who sometimes falls into the trap of disrespecting my own pawns, this game is a pretty amazing reminder of why not to do that!

but (and here's where i may get laughed at), why isn't it a draw by repetition between moves 53-57?

Mar-23-06
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  YouRang: <Jim Bartle><What's even more interesting is that they're all in their original files, no doubled pawns.> If I were a nit-picker, I would point out that black's b and c pawns switched files, so they're not really on their original files. Of course, nobody likes a nit-picker. ;-)
Mar-23-06  Eficko: "but (and here's where i may get laughed at), why isn't it a draw by repetition between moves 53-57?"

it wasnt the same pos 3 times, on the third move bacrot moves to ke6.

Cool game btw :).

Mar-23-06
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  YouRang: <Eficko> Actually, if you look again, you'll see that between moves 53-57, there was no position that was thrice repeated.

(And even if there had been, it doesn't automatically result in a draw -- one of the players must claim it.)

Mar-23-06  Eficko: <YouRang>"<Eficko> Actually, if you look again, you'll see that between moves 53-57, there was no position that was thrice repeated. (And even if there had been, it doesn't automatically result in a draw -- one of the players must claim it."

i know..... i was the one telling chesspieceface that so please look again, youll see that.

i also know the rules fine and im pretty sure judit would of claimed it....

Mar-23-06  ChessPieceFace: getting laughed at i expected, starting a fight i did not! haha.

it confused me a bit, i guess it was 2.5 moves repeated.

also i was pretty sure that since no one had previously mentioned it, i was wrong. the chances of me spotting something that none of you all did is pretty remote.

Mar-23-06
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  Phony Benoni: Kavalek's "Immortal Pawn" game was against Gufeld. It's in the database, but I don't know how to do a direct link.
Mar-23-06
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  YouRang: <Eficko> Oops! My apologies -- I clearly didn't read your post carefully.
Mar-23-06
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  Bobwhoosta: Funny, in the final position black has a pawn promotion no matter which way you flip the board.

This type of game is something I need to study more, a pure positional build up off of a piece sacrifice. I would've never seen the sacrifice...

Mar-23-06  GilHamilton: <Phony Benoni> Gufeld vs Kavalek, 1962 ?
Mar-25-06  Eficko: <YouRang> no probs. i didnt quote it properly with his name in the first place.
Oct-06-06
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  kevin86: I think that the chain after move fifty is even more impressive:a6-d3-h7
Jun-12-07
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  notyetagm: Position after 52 ... c3-c2


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Wow. Never anything like this before or since.

Jun-13-07  sanyas: <Bobwhoosta> Not if you flip it sideways...
Nov-27-07
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  FSR: Poor Judit must have felt sick getting rolled by all those pawns. In such circumstances I always think of something IM Julio Kaplan once wrote (I think about a game where Lein had sacked a rook for five pawns and rolled them down the board much as Bacrot did here): "reminds me of a movie I saw once about Brazilian army ants."
Feb-28-08  D.Observer: Eight on three. Can't withstand it.
Dec-17-08  WhiteRook48: Polgar loses to Bacrot???? How did that happen?
Dec-17-08  chessamateur: <WhiteRook48> Bacrot was a young and upcoming star at this time and went on to become an elite GM.
Jan-23-09
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  GrahamClayton: <notyetagm>Never anything like this before or since.

<notyetagm>,
According to Irving Chernev's "Wonders and Curiosities of Chess" (Dover, 1974}, the game du Mont-Gosling, London 1943 reached the following position after 31.e5


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The c7-d6-e5-f4-g3-h2 pawn chain equals the chain in the Polgar v Bacrot game.

Jan-23-09  WhiteRook48: how come Black kept all the pawns for so long?
Jan-30-09  WhiteRook48: and it was a bit funny.
Oct-27-09  WhiteRook48: who won that game?
Aug-12-12
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  Abdel Irada: White was probably already lost by that time, but I think 38. Qc6 was fatal. She had an opportunity to pick off the a-pawn and begin demolishing Black's queenside pawn chain, but instead chose to pursue a doomed attack. This is where my old friend/opponent Kermit Norris would have croaked, "No pawn respect!"
Apr-27-13  Rookiepawn: I think maybe 28. f4 was a poor move since it allows the Black e pawn to get pass and backed. 28.f3 seems to me as more cautious in order to stop the pawn avalanche.
Apr-27-13
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  thegoodanarchist: By move 49 Bacrot's pawn chain looks better than anything I've ever seen on a chess board. He still has all 8 and couldn't be more well placed
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