Feb-16-04 | | Tigran Petrosian: 25.Rd7!! is a beautiful deflection. |
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Feb-16-04 | | drukenknight: gee what is wrong w/ 58...Qxa3+? Great endgame though, once whites K gets in front of the pawns he is home free. |
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Jun-06-04 | | Tigran Petrosian: Then 60.Qe6+. |
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Oct-15-06 | | aw1988: 12. Nxg7!  |
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Oct-15-06 | | Madinina Killer: Home prep
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Oct-15-06 | | aw1988: I think it really makes Korchnoi's opening system dubious. After Nxg7 White has the superior game. |
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Apr-24-07 | | Maatalkko: This is an awesome game. I can't wait to study it more and see how accurate it is. |
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Jun-17-14 | | offramp: Game 12 of this Candidates' Semifinal. The last game of normal time and Polugaevsky was losing 2-1. Previous games with Kortschnoi as black had included Queen's Indians where this position had arisen after 6.0-0:
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...with a standard follow-up 7.d5 exd5 8.Nd4, exploiting the pin between the ♗g2 through the ♙ to the ♗b7. The trouble with the move is that soon a black knight arrives on c6 and there are exchanges. In this must-win game Polugaevsky invents a new gambit! 8.Nh4!
 click for larger view(He may have known of the game Alekhine vs Capablanca, 1927 which reached this position after 7.Nh4:)
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25.Rd7!!
Kortschnoi eventually loses his queen. But he only needs a draw so he plays on until the bitter end; but Polugaevsky has everything under control. He even lets Kortschnoi promote first.
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56.Qxf5!
Polugaevsky must have been delighted when his gambit was repeated at the very highest level in Kasparov vs Karpov, 1984, game 2 of their first match. |
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Aug-01-17
 | | thegoodanarchist: Clearly this is the best game of chess ever played. I doubt anyone can improve on even two moves of White. |
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Jun-14-18 | | ndg2: Lev "alpha0" Polugaevsky |
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Nov-18-18
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: The earliest appearance of the d5 gambit in the database comes in A Sandrin vs G K Fielding, 1954, although both players soon muffed the ensuing play. Incidentally, Sandrin was blind. Would seem appropriate to label 8.Nh4! as the Polugaevsky Continuation of the Sandrin Gambit. |
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Nov-18-18 | | Ilkka Salonen: Nice game. "Anarkismi on tosiasioiden tinkimätöntä tarkastelua." |
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Nov-18-18 | | singate: No dull moments in this one. Usually games with this many moves have a lot of waiting moves behind a wall of pawns. Hard to believe there aren’t pages of kibitzing on this gem. |
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Nov-18-18 | | cunctatorg: I don't know what is more remarkable in this beautiful game: Polugaevsky's crushing and imaginative attack ... or Korchnoi's defensive struggle!!... |
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Nov-18-18
 | | whiteshark: <An Englishman: <The earliest appearance of the d5 gambit...>> Earliest game w/ <7.d5> in Megabase is
<Guimard vs Pilnik>, La Plata Jockey Club, 1944 |
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Nov-18-18 | | Ironmanth: Holy crap, what a game!! Thanks as always, chessgames. A wondrous, safe, and sane holiday to all; play hard, play on, everyone! What a blessing to have our royal game! |
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Nov-18-18 | | Muthuraja2: What happens after 29..Be6 instead of 29..Qe6 ? |
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Nov-18-18
 | | perfidious: After 29....Be6, 30.f5 would be a strong retort. |
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Nov-19-18 | | Howard: Regarding the August 1, 2017 comment about lack of "improvements" for White, Polu did miss a quicker win at one point...but I don't recall where. Inside Chess pointed it out in a write-up on Polu right after he died, in 1995. Remind me to check the Informant when I get home. |
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Nov-20-18 | | Howard: According to Informant 30...
27. Re1 !
33. Qh7!
34. Qg7 !
...would all have won quicker.
Offhand, I think it was 27.Re1! that Inside Chess pointed out. |
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Jul-13-19
 | | thegoodanarchist: <When Korchnoi had achieved a winning position, he took off his coat, rolled up his sleeves and stared aggressively at his opponent. The audience responded with a knowing laughter. It seemed he was mocking the similar action by Polugaevsky after he had gained the decisive edge in Game 12.> I propose a different GOTD title:
"Glaring Error" |
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