Lev Polugaevsky vs Mikhail Tal (1973)

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Lev Polugaevsky vs Mikhail Tal
USSR Championship (1973), Moscow URS, rd 3, Oct-04
English Opening: Adorjan Defense (A10) · 1-0

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Sep-02-07		Calli: After 20...h4, how is White going to defend the e-file? Polugaevsky finds 22.f5!! and its all over but the shouting. This was not an isolated incident, Polugaevsky beat Tal 8-2-25 and seem to have the ability to refute Tal's speculative style.

Mar-02-09		edbermac: Tal amusingly refers to this game in his book The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal. He says that after correctly giving up a pawn he looked at a piece sac (giving up his N at move 12) for 50 minutes, becoming more and more convinced it was an incorrect move. When he finally saw it would not work, he became so angry at himself for wasting 50 minutes on his clock and sacrificed it anyway! Polugaevsky repulsed the attack and won the game easily.

Mar-02-09		An Englishman: Good Evening: Perhaps Polu won the game easily by GM standards, but I'm very impressed with his defense anyway. Look at how he arranges his King Rook, Knight and Queen so that they are in the right places at the right times. That isn't so easy for us mere patzers.

Dec-26-10		Fusilli: Polugaevsky deserves a prize for his nerves of steel. This game could be called "the thrashing that was not". <edbermac> Thanks for posting that. Who hasn't been in the same situation? Or a similar one... Spending a lot of time on a move, concluding it doesn't work, and then thinking for five seconds and playing a move we just came up with, with not even the most basic analysis. That has cost me many a game!

Nov-03-13		pilobolus: Multiple times I thought white is in serious trouble. I serious trouble against Tal! But in every case he finds not only defense, but great contra attack!!! Really amazing game!

Feb-22-14		peristilo: Interesting to notice that Polugaevsky himself is an agressive tactictian, as crazy as Tal, and yet he defends like Karpov or Capablanca in this game.

Feb-22-14		AylerKupp: <<Fusilli> Spending a lot of time on a move, concluding it doesn't work, and then thinking for five seconds and playing a move we just came up with, with not even the most basic analysis.> I think that this "approach" to chess playing was first highlighted in Alexander Kotov's "Think Like a Grandmaster" to the point that it is sometimes referred to as the Kotov Syndrome. And, yeah, that approach had also cost me a game or two (or three or ...)

Feb-05-18		ColdSong: Poluganervessteel.

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