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Gyula Sax vs Jan Timman
Phillips & Drew Kings (1980), London ENG, rd 8, Apr-18
Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation (B90)  ·  1-0

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Nov-30-11  qqdos: This is a landmark game for the Sozin (B88) - not (B90) as indicated above - when Sax found an improvement on Fischer's opening in Fischer vs Spassky, 1972, which seemed to leave Black with the upper hand. Golubev in his 2001 book The Sicilian Sozin, p.17 says: "Instead of the sluggish 12.a3, White should go in for the forcing variation" - i.e. 12.e5! - thus the position after 16.exd6 in this game "is <maybe was> of paramount importance for the entire Classical Sozin."
Nov-30-11  Retireborn: <qqdos> I'm no theoretician, but I believe 16.exd6 Qg5 is still supposed to be OK for Black - Short & Kasparov had a hard-fought draw with it in one of their 1993 match games.

As to this game, Timman only lost because his sealed move 42...Kf8 was weak; instead 42...Rc7 would have kept reasonable drawing chances.

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