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| Nov-29-09 | | MaxxLange: what a beautiful win
it reminds us of old-style Judit Polgar chess: brilliant tactical blows flowing from the position, one after another, logical ideas , beautiful, clear, and not defensible |
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| Nov-29-09 | | zatara: It seems she still got it!It would be great to see her back at the top events again. |
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| Nov-29-09 | | Red October: <zanshin> in the diagram in your post, its striking that Black does not have 1 but 2 minor pieces out of play... |
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| Nov-29-09 | | MaxxLange: <zanshin> I wondered what kind of horrible threats forced the desperate exchange sac with 29...Rf7 |
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| Nov-29-09 | | MaxxLange: suppose that Black plays, say, 29...Rae8. What does white have that is so crushing? Just 30 Rg5 and doubling rooks? |
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| Nov-29-09 | | MaxxLange: 29..Rae8 30 Qh6 maybe is crushing |
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| Nov-29-09 | | VishyAnandFan: molinov you didnt get the point. first of all there is nothing strange to like tal's or polgar's style more than say botvinnik's style (romanticism-materialsim). i know better than you that all tactics have to be superb, if you play on that level. but look at some comments like: "gelfand lost because of 29.Rf7" they dont say polgar's chess is wonderful, they reduce an excellent piece of art to a single move. of course i pay great attention to tactics, but you have to pay tribute for the entire game or the player, not for a single move. many of tal's games were unsound, so tell me why so many loved him, even the compatriots of his opponents wanted him to win. |
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| Nov-29-09 | | VishyAnandFan: i was misunderstood, i am in favor of discussing all tactics, thats clear. and of course polgar won because of tactics. if you read my comment carefully it says: "this attitude leads to a POSSIBLE win" (tactics decide but het bravery made it possible). my english skills are weak, so i cant express my point of view properly, indeed my only and main point of view is, i love her arts |
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| Nov-29-09 | | whiteshark: <21.Rxf7!!> would have been a romantic style piece sacrifice, a sight for sore eyes. 
click for larger view The main idea can be seen in the line <21...Qd8 22.Rxh7! Bxg5 23.Nxg6!> 
click for larger viewwhen - aside of Rh8+ threat - the Nh5 is now en prise. |
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| Nov-29-09 | | VishyAnandFan: fantastic line!! ...the first rapid between them played, gelfand succeded with ugly chess, grabbing pawn b2, grabbing pawn a2, no imagination, and winning, thats disgusting |
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| Nov-29-09 | | siggemannen: Don't understand why it's disgusting to win like that? If your opponent sac unsoundly you must defend somehow. It takes a lot of imagination to defend well. |
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| Nov-29-09 | | VishyAnandFan: you can love it , you are free to do so. i dont. i love chess like polgar played in third rapid |
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| Nov-29-09 | | zanshin: <Red October: <zanshin> in the diagram in your post, its striking that Black does not have 1 but 2 minor pieces out of play...> <RO> Yes, and how White's pieces are about to have a meeting with Black's King ;-) |
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| Nov-29-09 | | zanshin: <MaxxLange: <zanshin> I wondered what kind of horrible threats forced the desperate exchange sac with 29...Rf7> <MaxxLange> I think <Eyal> explains it well enough. The key threat is Bf6+. I won't try to rehash his explanation because I might get it wrong. Needless to say, Rf7 was not an outright blunder - just a move of desperation. I take back my earlier comment that Gelfand blundered this game away. Judit won it through excellent play. |
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| Nov-29-09 | | Eyal: Position after 27.Qf4:
click for larger viewIt's interesting that the decisive mistake, 27...f5, might seem at a first glance to be "holding" Black's position - defending both e- and f-pawns. However, it also opens the h4-d8 diagonal for White's bishop, so that Bf6 becomes a fatal threat in a few moves (and the e4 pawn doesn't really need protection in this position, because Qxe4? would be answered by Qg7+ and Bb7, where Black is suddenly the one who's attacking). |
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| Nov-29-09 | | Eyal: As Shipov notes in his commentary (http://www.ugra-chess.ru/eng/commen...), starting from 16.f4 there are several motifs which are typical of King's Gambit games. |
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| Mar-03-10 | | alexrawlings: This is quite a game! I looked this up after reading about it in Leonard Barden's chess column in tonight's London Evening Standard where he looks at the position with White to make her final move and writes: <Polgar is by far the best female chessplayer ever and has reached the top 20 in the rankings against men, but the Hungarian is now a mother of two so competes less frequently. She returned for the $1m world knock-out and only lost to Israel's top seed Gelfand 1.5-2.5 after a hard fight. Here Polgar (White, to move at move 32) is down on material, rook against knight and three pawns, but her powerful attack up the g1-g8 file more than compensates. White's obvious try is to double rooks, but Gelfand plans to meet 32 Rg5 by 32.. Ne3 33 Rag1 Ng4; 32 Rg3 by 32.. f4; and 32 Rg2 by 32.. e3 33 Rag1 Bb7. Polgar did better, and her choice forced immediate resignation. What was White's winning move?> The answer is 32 Rg6! White plans 33 Bf6+ or Rf6. If 32.. Qxg6 33 Qxf8+ Qg8 34 Bf6# Could be a nice Wednesday puzzle IMO. |
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| Oct-31-10 | | vonKrolock: Selected as the <Best Game from Informant 107> Milan Bjelajac: <"In her comments, Polgar demonstrates that dynamic tactical elements dominated the game. There were a few mistakes; Black was already in time-trouble at the twentieth move! However, this takes nothing away from Polgar's creative masterpiece. Judit crowned her attack with the beautiful 27.Qf4!!, a move that will surely find its place in chess anthologies."> http://www.chesscafe.com/informant/... |
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| Oct-05-12 | | Jim Bartle: Judit's comments on this game:
"The 2009 World Cup proved to be a decisive moment in the birth of my book. In the third round I played Boris Gelfand, a very strong opponent who eventually went on to win the event. I lost the first match game with Black, and during my preparations for the second one, I found myself with no clue about how to break down his favourite Petroff Defence. "I decided to improvise with the Bishop's Opening, and in the early middlegame started a sacrificial attack in the best spirit of the King's Gambit, my favourite opening as a kid. This turned out to be Gelfand's only defeat in a classical game in the whole tournament. I eventually lost the play-off, but this did not spoil the magic: it felt like for a moment the Judit from 1988, who many (including myself) had forgotten, had come back to deliver her trademark brilliancies." http://www.chesscafe.com/skittles/C... |
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| Aug-31-20 | | Octavia: more from Judit in her book: "...my opponent was going to have a ... choice of ... equivalent alternatives, which was likely to prove tiring, stressful and ... time consuming" in other words he was old & she was young! In chess agism is ripe but I'd like to remind yous is that Gelfand won the cup |
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| Aug-31-20 | | SChesshevsky: < Judit's comments on this game: "I decided to improvise with the Bishop's Opening, and in the early middlegame started a sacrificial attack in the best spirit of the King's Gambit, my favourite opening as a kid..." > Great game by Polgar. What an attack! But I never got a real King's Gambit type feeling. 16. f4 was nice though and felt maybe more as an attempt to eventually open lines to the king. Possibly more in the spirit of a Ruy Lopez attack when Black gets overly fixated on the queen side. Themes also seen with some Fischer King's Indian Attack or Spassky Closed Sicilian. King's Gambit ideas or not, does seem Polgar has a history of being very alert to Ruy Lopez possibilities toward the king when opponent is maybe overly occupied on the queen side or center. Judit Polgar vs Korchnoi, 1994 Judit Polgar vs Ivanchuk, 1996 |
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Feb-11-22
 | | FSR: Judit was an amazing player. A shame that she left the game. |
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| Feb-11-22 | | LoveThatJoker: A pun so bad, it's good.
Outkast's "Hey Ya" comes to mind:
Shake it, shake it, shake it, shake it, shake it
Shake it, shake it, shake it, shake it
Shake it like a Polgaroid picture! Hey ya!
Shake it, shake it, shake it, shake it, shake it
Shake it, shake it, shake it, suga!
Shake it like a Polgaroid picture!
Now all the Beyonce's, and Lucy Liu's, and baby dolls
Get on tha floor get on tha floor!
Shake it like a Polgaroid picture!
LTJ |
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| Feb-11-22 | | spingo: <FSR: Judit was an amazing player. A shame that she left the game.> She should have left the game before Gelfand played 32...Qxg6. |
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| Feb-11-22 | | Brenin: <spingo>, I don't understand your comment: Gelfand didn't play 32 ... Qxg6, he resigned since it is answered by 33 Qxf8+ Qg8 34 Bf6 mate. Other moves by Black allow 33 Bf6+ winning significant material. |
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