| VictorVonDoom: This game was played between Duda who was about 18 years old at the time and Wojtaszek who was a top 20 player, who had recently won at the famous Dortmund tournament. My analysis-
The game starts off with the Sicilian Najdorf. They go into a variation called the English attack. The game runs pretty smoothly until 24. ...Qh5. Now Qh5 is an inaccuracy by Wojtaszek. It leaves an open file for the H rook to use to attack the kingside. After this, a series of great moves are played by Duda, He plays 27. Ng3 attacking the queen, the queen moves back and is preparing a discovered attack on white's queen. Duda stops it by playing the one good move Rdf1. After g6, weakening Black's kingside, white pushes the h pawn so that the H rook can get into action and the kingside can be destroyed slowly. 
click for larger viewIn this position, black doesn't look very good, he has got an isolated pawn on b4, all his pieces, especially his queen are cramped on the kingside, unable to join the attack, the white bishop is occupying a really strong square. So overall, the position is pretty good for Duda. So assuming he keeps playing good moves, he can turn the advantage into a win. But he doesn't do that. He ruins his advantage with 33. Qe1. Maybe he was trying to save his queen from the discovered attack. But then the discovered attack was of no danger as the queen could just move after the knight moves and after the exchange of rooks, all would be well. But Duda moves the queen straight away, an unnecessary move and loses his stronghold, equalizing the position. But then, Duda gets another opportunity when Wojtszek completely blunders a pawn and a white pawn he could have captured by playing 35. ...Rc5?? This blunder allows Duda to win material and his position looks really good. At move 40. Be6, the position looks like this- 
click for larger viewIn this position, the bishop is attacking the queen, if the queen captures, I'm sure the checkmate is easy for anyone to see. The queen has to stay on the same diagonal to avoid checkmate, but if the queen moves away from the current square, then the rook is lost. Therefore, the one good move here is Rc1+, rook captures, rook captures, rook captures and queen captures bishop. Now Duda is in an exchange up position and can easily win. Seeing no other alternative, Wojtaszek resigns. Overall a great game and it shows us the importance of pieces being in the game, actively participating and not cramped in some corner like how Wojtaszek did here. I enjoyed analysing it a lot. Great game. | 
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