| Polgar - Xie Women's World Championship Match (1996) |
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"After a couple of fairly short draws, the organizer Luís Rentero - the man behind the famous Linares tournaments - intervened in a way that made the players extremely upset: He accused them of having gone to Jaén just for tourism and announced that he intended to deduct $25,000 from the prize money (a total of $200,000, approximately 1.3 million kronor)! - I have never been so insulted in my entire life, said Zsuzsa, and in a furious response she pointed out to Rentero that it was actually an official FIDE affair and not a private event. Jun Xie seemed to have been most affected by the incident - in any case, the world champion mishandled a promising position in the fourth game and lost the fifth game too, just by chance. The initiative then passed to the challenger, who also won games 7 and 8 to decide the match." (Tidskrift för Schack, transl.) Castle of Santa Catalina, Jaén, Spain, 30.1 - 20.2 1996 Age Elo* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3
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1 GM Polgar 26 2550 0 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 0 1 8½
2 GM Xie 25 2530 1 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 1 0 4½
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Xie was World champion in October 1991 and had defended her title in 1993. Polgar had earned the right to challenge her, by winning the Polgar - Chiburdanidze Candidates Final (1995). The match was best of 16 games, or the first to get 8½ points. Polgar was seconded by Judit Polgar and Lev Psakhis, and accompanied by her family. Xie was accompanied by the Secretary General of the Chinese Chess Federation, a foreign affairs official, a parapsychologist and others. Main sponsor and technical director: Luis Rentero Suarez. After 13 games, Polgar became the new women'a world champion.Sources
Wikipedia article: Castle of Santa Catalina (Jaén)
TWIC 69 (https://theweekinchess.com/html/twi...)
TWIC 70 (https://theweekinchess.com/html/twi...)
TWIC 71 (https://theweekinchess.com/html/twi...)
TWIC 72 (https://theweekinchess.com/html/twi...)
Olimpbase (https://olimpbase.org/ind-wwcc/wwc1...)
Mark Weeks (https://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/96...)
Tasc ChessSystem (https://web.archive.org/web/1999020...)
*FIDE rating list January 1996 (https://web.archive.org/web/2022112...)
Chess Life, 5/1996, pp. 52-59, 80 (https://uscf1-nyc1.aodhosting.com/C...)
Tidskrift för Schack, 3/1996, pp. 148-156 (https://tfsarkiv.schack.se/pdf/1996...)
Jaque 421, March 1996, pp. 25-26 (https://www.olimpbase.org/leagueES/...)
Sakkélet, 2-3/1996, pp. 34-54 (https://adt.arcanum.com/en/view/Sak...)
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