Nov-14-14 I Zenyuk vs S Foisor, 2013
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| IoftheHungarianTiger: Still enchanted by this game, and I probably always will be! Some statements by Maurice Ashley on this game as he was analyzing it during the championship webstream: "This game was insane."
"It was pure pandemonium on the board."
"The computer thinks you should just ... |
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Nov-14-14 Judit Polgar 
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| IoftheHungarianTiger: Bidding Ms. Judit Polgar a very fond farewell and wishing her all the best in whatever she pursues following her career as an active player. A little sad to see the early retirement of my favorite chess player of all time, but grateful for her remarkable legacy and the ... |
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May-14-13 Iryna Zenyuk
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| IoftheHungarianTiger: Thanks for the link <GreenLantern> ... although I knew she was pursuing a PhD at Carnagie-Mellon (which obviously means she's very intelligent), seeing her accomplishments in detail (at least as much detail as my brain can handle!) is quite impressive! She just ... |
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Mar-16-12 Yifan Hou
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| IoftheHungarianTiger: I know I'm probably in the minority here - among both Polgar and Hou fans - but I'm just as happy not to see a match between the two ... I'm not all that crazy about Judit returning to women's-only events. Judit didn't earn the distinction of world's best female player ... |
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Mar-03-12 J Polgar vs M Muzychuk, 2012
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| IoftheHungarianTiger: I wonder if Polgar saw the sure win after move 47. With a passed pawn on the outside, it's very possible that she could see that the four connected pawns on each side would cannibalize each other, and after that there was no way for Black to stop the b-pawn. If that's ... |
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Feb-24-12 Pillsbury vs Lasker, 1896
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| IoftheHungarianTiger: Regarding my post on Dec-08-11, I found an article by Edward Winter quoting from Marshall's "Chess Masterpieces" which indicates that Lasker did indeed consider this the best game he had ever played (at least up until when that book was written). I found the article at ... |
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Feb-13-12 J Polgar vs A Botsari, 1990
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| IoftheHungarianTiger: OK. I kind of get it now ... obviously, these tactics are over my head, but if: 28. ... Kh8
29. Nd4 ...
Then why not:
29. ... Be3+
30. Kh1 Rc5 (or Rxd4)
and try to chase the queen away from the diagonal?
Wait a minute, never mind. I just went through both ... ... |
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Jan-31-12 Y Hou vs J Polgar, 2012
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| IoftheHungarianTiger: <Blunderdome> That is a good point; they are all simul games. But you can search through the database and find Bobby Fischer losses very easily to weaker players such as Kovacevic, Janosevic, Gheorghiu, Ivkov, Khlmov, etc. in classical games, at times even when ... |
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Jan-27-12 J Polgar vs Anand, 1999
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| IoftheHungarianTiger: In a Q&A session with chess fans ( http://www.crestbook.com/en/node/1668 ), J. Polgar was asked about some of her best games. She said if she had to choose one game that was her best, this was it. This is one of my personal 3 favorites of Judit's (the other two being: ... |
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Jan-27-12 Shirov vs J Polgar, 1994
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| IoftheHungarianTiger: In a Q&A with chess fans ( http://www.crestbook.com/en/node/1668 ), Judit Polgar referred to this game as containing the combination which gave her the most satisfaction. When she was asked to choose the best game of her life, however, this game lost out to Judit Polgar |
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