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Miguel Najdorf vs Nicolaas Cortlever
Buenos Aires Olympiad Final-A (1939), Buenos Aires ARG, rd 6, Sep-07
Gruenfeld Defense: Russian Variation (D96)  ·  0-1

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Feb-06-04  Whitehat1963: What's the finish?
Jan-31-07  sharkbenjamin: whitehat1963 I believe there is no punch out blow . I believe that Nadorf was discouraged about his deficit position and did see any good swindle chances.
Jan-31-07  bpdoc: 28...Nc4 wins the pawn, giving Black a decicive 2-pawn advantage. If white tries 28.Rc1, then black takes the a-pawn and has 3 connected passed pawns on the queenside.
Oct-11-13  Perec: The 1939 Olympiad began on September 1, the day that Germany invaded Poland, and this game was played on September 7.

Tadeusz Walsza, in his 'Najdorf: From Warsaw to Buenos Aires" writes 'In one of the final rounds, the Polish delegation struggled with Holland. Najdorf was playing Cortlever [on the second board] and after the opening had obtained a promising position. At that moment, the clearly unnerved Polish Ambassador to Argentina, Zdislaw Kurnikowski, entered the playing hall and informed the Polish chess players that the German army was attacking Warsaw. Najdorf later recalled that he was not in a state to continue playing: “I advanced a pawn and lost.”'

The Polish team remained in contention for the Gold Medal almost to the end of the Olympiad, before losing to Germany by half a point (36-35.5).

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