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| Oct-23-12 | | planetsportydotcom: white has to exchange with 28.Bd4  |
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| Oct-23-12 | | LovingFischer: I've never played Sicilian Dragon, but it's so charming.. |
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| Oct-23-12 | | newzild: <planetsportydotcom> 28. Bd4 Rxb3 looks winning for Black, eg: a) 29. cxb3 Qxd4 and Black has a bishop and four pawns for a rook in the endgame. b) 29. Bxg7 Rb8+ 30. Ke2 Kxg7 with a four pawn advantage. |
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Oct-23-12
 | | HeMateMe: Nice game. The pun RULES. This was 24 years ago--has Judit been an elite GM that long? Guess so. That sometimes weak c3 square in the Sicilian sure took a beating here. |
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| Oct-23-12 | | Once: <HeMateMe> This was played when Judit was 12 years old. She became a GM three years later in 1991. |
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Oct-23-12
| | HeMateMe: Age 12? Well, heck, I coulda beat her... |
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| Oct-23-12 | | JimmyRockHound: That was the fastest pawn West of The Pecos. |
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| Oct-23-12 | | Castleinthesky: A fire breathing Dragon? |
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| Oct-23-12 | | kevin86: Move 36...the black pawn is on a7
Five moves later,the pawn decides the game. |
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| Oct-23-12 | | Lambda: g4 is not recommended in this line if white is also investing two moves in getting his bishop to b3. It's too slow. |
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| Oct-23-12 | | Marmot PFL: Thankfully the game was shorter than the book. |
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Oct-23-12
| | HeMateMe: The movies were somewhat overhyped. I thought the one with Daniel craig was ok, Rooney Mara played the goth girl. She was nominated for best supporting actress. The other one was horrible. |
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Oct-23-12
 | | scormus: <Lambda ... Bb3> And a 3rd move to exchange it off. Whenever I look at Yugoslav games, I wonder how W gets the attack through quickly enough. f3, g4, h4, h5 is so plodding and hand-showing. If its played like this I feel you have to skip g4. |
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| Oct-23-12 | | colorvis: 17... Bxg4 interesting move |
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| Oct-23-12 | | David2009: T Pfeifer vs Judit Polgar, 1988
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16.Nb3 is so plausible but led to disaster after 16...Qa6 17.h5? (16.h5 immediately seems to be OK). Instead Herr Fritz recommends sacrificing a Pawn with 17.e5!?, one continuation being 17...Ne8 18. h5 Bxe5 19. Bd4 Bxd4 20.Nxd4 Nf6 21. hxg6 fxg6 22. Qh6 Rxd4 23. Rxd4 Rxc3 24. bxc3 Be6 25. a4 Bf7 26.f4 and White has come out on top since 26...Nxg4? allows 27. Qxh7 1-0. Compare Karpov vs Korchnoi, 1974 (WCHM game 2), 1-0, where Karpov sacrifices the h Pawn early (before playing g4) to open the h file, and then snuffs out Black counterplay with Nde2! at the right moment. Here, with the h file closed, 16. Nde2 seems too slow (16...b5). |
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Oct-24-12
| | scormus: <David2009: .... Karpov vs Korchnoi, 1974>
At around that time I thought W had a guaranteed win with this line and couldn't wait to play it. But it doesn't always work. Maybe it does if you are Karpov ;) |
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| Mar-12-13 | | khanmustafi: could somebody please annotate the game...I think that 11 : Bb3 was the start of downfall for white are there other stronger moves? |
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| Jul-20-13 | | Dr Lados Mangrov: Dragon well played here, kudos Judit! |
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| Apr-29-24 | | Gaito: 
click for larger viewBLACK TO MOVE
In this position Black played 12...Nc4 which leads to a level game (according to the evaluation of Komodo 13).
Worthy of consideration was 12...b5!, taking advantage of the fact that the White Knight on d4 is overloaded, as it has to protect the f3 Pawn and also the b5 square.
For example:
12...b5! 13.Ndxb5 (or else 13.a3 a5!) Nxf3 14.Qg2 Bxg4 and Black has a very good position (Evaluation by Komodo 13 is -1.25) |
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| Apr-29-24 | | Gaito: 
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This position is typical of the Sicilian Dragon. White has to act quicky without any loss of time (the same might be said of Black).
White chose the prophylactic move 15.Kb1, a reasonable move to be sure. But maybe 15.h5!? would have been a good alternative, undertaking the K-side attack without loss of time. The main question in the Dragon Sicilian is whose attack gets first, or as they say: "first come first served". |
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| Apr-29-24 | | Gaito: 
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BLACK TO MOVE
17...Bxg4! was a good move, typical of young Judit's enterprising style. The engine (Komodo 13), however, considers that it would have been even better to play the thematic exchange sacrifice on c3 before capturing on g4. For example: 17...Rxc3! 18.bxc3 Bxg4!, and now White must play 19.e5!, a very difficult move to find for a human being; otherwise, if 19.fxg4 Nxe4 20.Qd3 Nxc3+ 21.Kc1 Nxa2+ 22.Kd2 Qc6 23.Rdg1 Nb4 and White is busted (diagram)
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Further, if 24.Nd4 (best) Bxd4 25.Qxd4 Qxc2+ 26.Ke1 Rc4 27.Qd2 Qb3 28.hxg6 fxg6 29.Rf1 Rc2 is curtains (Analysis by Komodo 13. Computer evaluation: -8.46) |
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| Apr-29-24 | | Gaito: 21...Nxa2+! would have enabled Black to finish off the game much more quickly. Of course, it is easy to say that because we can use an engine. According to Komodo 13, after 21...Qa3+? the position is about equal (evaluation -0.38), whereas after 21...Nxa2+! the evaluation is -2.76.
That means that White made another mistake later on. |
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| Apr-29-24 | | Gaito: Apparently, ever since she was a young girl Judit Polgar loved tactical complications, and that was the kind of play she excelled at. Moreover, it seems that she somehow forced her opponents to plunge into a forest of complicated tactical variations not easy into handle.
In this particular game Tamas Pfeifer (rated 2121) was not up to the task. He failed to find the best defensive moves several times. 27.Qd2? was a mistake (27.Qe2! was in order), and again 28.Qf2?? was a very unfortunate defensive move (28.Qe2! was the correct move).
It is usually much more difficult to defend well than to attack well. This game was a case in point.
When you are attacking, a small mistake might be unimportant. But if you are defending, a small mistake is usually fatal. |
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Apr-29-24
 | | perfidious: The year before this game, Judit and I played the under 2400 section of the New York Open, and her play was indeed tactically oriented from the first. |
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Apr-29-24
 | | Clement Fraud: <Gaito> <Perfidious> Many thanks to both of you for highlighting this game: I myself have come unstuck - more times than enough - against the Dragon variation ; and, as a result of this, I have taken a lot of interest in the Yugoslav Attack (over time). In this encounter, I believe that White missed his chance to play the (all important) fortifying move N4-e2 ; and I reckon that move fourteen was the time for White to do this (instead of the careless 14.h4?). |
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