| Apr-21-04 | | Jim Bartle: I love how black gives up both exchanges to move the two bishops into position to dominate the white rooks and the big diagonals aiming straight at h1 and h2. |
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| Mar-20-06 | | zev22407: The power of the pin. |
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| Feb-13-07 | | ToTheDeath: Awesome breakthrough! |
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| Apr-12-10 | | Jim Bartle: How would black respond to 26...Nd5, not taking the rook on f3? |
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| Apr-13-10 | | diceman: <Jim Bartle: How would black respond to 26...Nd5, not taking the rook on f3?> A much better move.
Offhand it looks like:
26.Nd5 g3 27.fxg3 Rxg3 28.Nf4 Bxg2+ 29.Rxg2 Rxg2
30.Nxg2 Rxe2 31.Qxe2 Bxd4 is best.
Whites better.
The question is how much will exposed
kings matter? |
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| Apr-13-10 | | Jim Bartle: Your line is what my computer program told me. But I'd be surprised if Polgar started the sacrifices without seeing a win in all lines. |
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| Sep-24-10 | | sevenseaman: ..25. Rxf7 is interesting! |
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Jul-05-11
 | | FSR: This must have been a psychologically interesting game. Granda-Zuniga was the boyfriend of Susan Polgar. In her book "Queen of the Kings [sic] Game" she writes about how G-Z acted strangely toward her during her 1992 Candidates Final against Ioselani and the deleterious effect that had on her play. (Polgar led multiple times, but kept losing, allowing Ioselani to catch up, and Polgar ended up losing on a coin toss or some such, even though Ioselani had never at any time been ahead in the match.) She eventually discovered that G-Z had a wife and multiple children back in Peru! I don't know if this game occurred while G-Z was still Susan's boyfriend or after their breakup. |
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Jul-05-11
 | | perfidious: <FSR> In the summer of '92, I played a couple of events with Granda and the Polgar sisters, and while hardly an insider, somehow picked up on the scuttlebutt that these two were a couple. Till now, though, I'd never heard the rest of that charming little story. |
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| Aug-24-15 | | FairyPromotion: Hmmmm... So the greatest female player of all times, who is also an extremely aggressive tactician, faces the guy who cheated on her sister? Hell Hath No Fury |
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Aug-08-24
| | FSR: I guess it must have been later in the year that the match between Susan Polgar and Ioselani, and the concurrent discovery by Susan of her boyfriend's perfidy, took place. S Polgar vs N Ioseliani, 1992 was in November. |
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| Sep-28-24 | | Atking: I don't understand why such positional player like Granda Zuniga didn't play simply 14.Nd5 ... 15...NxN+ 16.BxN Qxb2 17.Nxc7 Rad8 (17...QxR 18.Qd5+ or 17...Rac8 18.Nb5) 18.g4! Bc8 19.Bd5+ Kh8 20.Rb1 xb7 Black King is more exposed than White... Maybe FSR 's psychological explanation should be taken in consideration. |
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Sep-28-24
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Today's magnificent pun refers to the Biblical story of Judith and Holofernes <sp?>. Excellent game, too. |
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| Sep-28-24 | | SeanAzarin: The pin is mightier than the sword. White has no good way to prevent 29... Q x P mate. |
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| Sep-28-24 | | goodevans: White’s acceptance of the two exchange sacs was just baffling. What did he think was going to happen? An act so stupid it would embarrass a rank amateur let alone a strong GM. |
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| Sep-28-24 | | areknames: Really nice game, spectacular KID. |
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| Sep-28-24 | | Allderdice83: < diceman: <Jim Bartle: How would black respond to 26...Nd5, not taking the rook on f3?>
A much better move.
Offhand it looks like:
26.Nd5 g3 27.fxg3 Rxg3 28.Nf4 Bxg2+ 29.Rxg2 Rxg2
30.Nxg2 Rxe2 31.Qxe2 Bxd4 is best.
Whites better.
The question is how much will exposed
kings matter?>
This is about even according to Stockfish/Chess.com (+0.1). However, White could have improved earlier with 25. Bf1 instead of 25. Rcg1. Then comes 25 ... Rd3 26. Qf4 Rxd4 27. Nxe8 Bxg2+ 28. Bxg2 Qxg2+ 29. Kxg2 Rxf4 30. Nxd6 (+0.7). Polgar erred with 22 ... Nf3? Instead, 22 ... Rf3!! is crushing. 23. gxf3 Nxf3 24. Bxf3 Bxf3+ 25. Rg2 Qh3 transposes to the game line after 26. Rg1 Re5! 27. Bxe5 Bxe5 28. Qd5+ Kh8. White has better than 23. gxf3?, but every move loses. Eg. 23. Rc3 g3 and
24. h3 gxf2 25. Bxf3 Bxf3 26. Rxf3 fxg1=Q+ 27. Kxg1 Nxf3+ 28. gxf3 Bxd4+ 29. Qxd4 Re2 (-4.0), or
24. fxg3 Ng4 25. h3 Qxh3+! 26. gxh3 Rd3+ 27. Bf3 Bxf3+ 28. Rg2 Rxd2 29. Rxf3 Re1+ 30. Bg1 Rxg1+ 31 Kxg1 Rd1+ 32. Rf1 Bd4+ 33. Rf2 Bxf2+ 34. Kg2 Ne3+ 35. Kxf2 Nxf1 (-4.2) So the moral is, White can't go pawn hunting with 22. Nxc7?? Instead, 22. Nc3 keeps White in the game (now the bishop is attacked so Black doesn't have Rf3) On 22 ... Bf5, White can repeat with 23. Nd5. Of course, White made some mistakes earlier. This was back in the old glory days of the KID, before engines started showing that the old kingside attacking style of Najdorf, Fischer, and Kasparov doesn't really work if White plays accurately. |
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Sep-28-24
 | | MissScarlett: Granda Zuniga lost to all three sisters in this event. <Their number is usually left indeterminate. Virgil, probably working from an Alexandrian source, recognized three: Alecto or Alekto ("endless anger"), Megaera ("jealous rage"), and Tisiphone or Tilphousia ("vengeful destruction"), all of whom appear in the Aeneid.> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erinyes |
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Kibitzing
sac: 22...Nf3