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Sep-20-07
 | | WannaBe: As a side info, for this simul, GM Polgar varied between 1. d4 and 1. e4 every other board, and just my luck, I got 1. d4... =( |
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| Sep-27-07 | | realbrob: I looked at the game for a while trying to understand why you lost.. First of all, it often happens that when you play against 1.d4 as Black without a very good theoretical knowledge (which none of us has I'm afraid if compared to a GM) you get desperately cramped and after 20 moves there's nothing you can do anymore.
I also think Black is a bit too passive here, another thing which happens when you're playing a stronger opponent. Psychologically, you don't "dare" try to attack the opponent but only try to defend yourself, and that's a mistake.
Maybe you should have challenged her advanced pawns (playing, for example, something like 14..c6 instead of 14..Rb8). You could also take the f pawn (14..gxf6 15.Qxf6 Ng6, your king doesn't look so bad and now you have the option of 16..e6). 21..Rc8 pins your d7 N to the rook, if you hadn't played it, after 22.Be6 you could have played 22..Nf8, attacking the powerful LSB.
On the whole, it seems you played a lot of very quiet, positional moves (14..Rb8, 17..Qc8, 19..Qd8, 21..Rc8) as though you were dealing with a hyper-closed position, while White had big attacking possibilities going on on the kingside. You lost some tempi and Polgar, who of course is a GM, took advantage of that. Of course there's the possibility that everything I've been saying is rubbish and, apart from that, nobody can blame you because you lost a game with a GM. |
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Sep-27-07
| | WannaBe: <realbrob: I looked at the game for a while trying to understand why you lost..> A simple 'YOU SUCK' would have saved you a lot of typing. =) Thanks for going over the game. I'll look at what your suggestions once today's Mexico City games are over. |
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| Sep-27-07 | | chessamateur: I was flipping through the game real quick and as soon as I saw him play 18... fxg6? was like no you have to take it with the other way. Now that's going to be cause of all your misery. Needless to say, even I didn't expect it to end so quick and directly. |
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| Oct-10-07 | | FICSwoodpusher: Indeed, as a rule of thumb a pawn capture towards the center is usually better. Here the f pawn also stops a white piece from using e6 as an outpost. |
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| Oct-12-07 | | chessamateur: Wow when I posted earlier, I didn't realize this was the great User: WannaBe. Must of been cool to play a GM, let alone a famous one. I hope to do so one day. |
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| Oct-12-07 | | whiteshark: Aren't Yu forgetting something? |
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| Oct-12-07 | | ColonelCrockett: 7. ... e5 is the better move in theory. This move blunts any fancy ideas White might have of puting his (or her) pawns on light squares and contesting the long diagonal (as in the game). In fact e5 is the point of playing Nc6 (otherwise the move can be omitted and Black usual plays for d5 with c6, also preventing a White Bishop from monopolizing the long diagonal). as for 7. ... Bg4 the only problem with it is that a Black center hasn't been established and to paraphrase IM Jermey Silman "Never make a pin if you don't intend to capture. The Bishop is worth more in the position than the knight on f3 ... you don't want to trade. I like Susan's pawn capture on move 9 ... eyeing the e-pawn (and she proceeds to make the pawn stationary with f4). Susan's choice of b3 instead of f4 is interesting (if f4 the c4 pawn falls but White's advantage seems intact, objectively Susan played the obviously correct move with f4 being 'interesting'). Black's Rb8 illustrates the point ... he has nothing to do ... White has completely bottled him up ... it's a terrible position (it was after d5 but seeing this resulting position brings the point home). 17.a4 Susan sees that she's got an iron grip on the game andstops for a moment to bottle you even more. 18. ... hxg6 doesn't help Black ... even then he's completely lost. The final combination is built by a single move I think ... Ne4 was a staple (and a thematic idea for about four moves, Susan prepared it and only played it when its sting would be the worst. As an aside 6. ... Nc6 is a recognized variation but it's just an interesting sideline (it is seen in master play, but it isn't exactly a tournament winner) c6, Re8, c5, or even the interesting Na6 are all alternatives. I played Nc6 for awhile (so I know it personally) and When White decides to play the d5 line after some preparation Black gets cramped and can't really get free. This game is a good lesson in King's Indian ideas as White (there are at least three major opening ideas Susan implores ... can you guess them?). I like this game very much. It's ashame that Jimmy lost but the game is in a database and won't be lost on the people who find it. |
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| Oct-13-07 | | midknightblue: congrats for getting a game on Jimmy. This is Jimmy Wu winner of the famed largest upset award in Vegas. you should get that game put on here too to even your record to 1-1. Enjoy Chesspalace. Later. |
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| Mar-13-08 | | ahmadov: Do you not have a picture from this game, Jimmy? |
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Mar-17-08
| | WannaBe: <ahmadov> Not during the game, but I did catch up with her for a photo a day later... http://mysite.verizon.net/jyu1/Beau...
And a year later, I caught her with Mrs. Korchnoi at the same tournament: http://mysite.verizon.net/jyu1/Susa... |
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| Mar-17-08 | | ahmadov: Thanks, nice pictures... |
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| Feb-28-09 | | WhiteRook48: wait, is Jimmy Yu <WannaBe>? |
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Feb-28-09
| | WannaBe: <WhiteRook48: wait, is Jimmy Yu <WannaBe>?> Lies, Odd Lies!! |
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| Mar-01-09 | | WhiteRook48: oh, I just heard that on a random page, and... it's an Odd Lie ? |
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| Mar-01-09 | | WhiteRook48: 29. Bxf6. |
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| Feb-03-11 | | Travis Bickle: <WannaBe> Hey Bugs did you ask Susan for her autograph? ; P |
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Feb-04-11
| | WannaBe: <Travis Bickle> Yes, she signed the score sheet, after the last move, and I have pictures of her, (I removed them from the March 17th 2008 post, and have now put them back...) The links, are:
http://mysite.verizon.net/jyu1/Beau... (Susan and I) http://mysite.verizon.net/jyu1/Susa... (Susan with Mrs. Korchnoi) Hope you get to enjoy them, before I take them off again... FBIs, you know... And the CIA, MI5/6, NSA, NSC, KGB, GRU, Mossad, NASA, FCC, Boy Scouts of America, Girl Scouts of America, DAR, National Guards, ex-wives... |
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| Mar-05-11 | | Caissanist: Your style might be more suited to the QGD or the Slav than the King's Indian. With the KID you usually get one or two chances to make a decisive break to get equality, otherwise you get strangled. The other defenses are more suited to patient maneuvering. |
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Mar-09-11
 | | Richard Taylor: Here 7. ... e5 is probably better, I don't think you need to exchange your B. or you could have tried 6. ... Nbd7 followed by eventually or soon c5 or e5. I think your Bg4 and Bxf3 is not necessary here. But good to see you have a go! I actually got a draw with Susan Polgar in a 2 minute game once on WCN (Internet). But she was playing about 15 "challengers" (not at once) but one after another. Next game I played her on that I lost. |
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Mar-09-11
| | Richard Taylor: Here is a good way to play against the k-side fianchetto by White T Banusz vs D Kokarev, 2010 |
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| Apr-19-16 | | catlover: <WannaBe> Thanks for commenting on your game. What an honor to play Susan Polgar! By the way, I love the photo of you with Wile E. Coyote on your bio page. I grew up with Looney Tunes. |
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Apr-19-16
| | WannaBe: <catlover> How did you find this game?! (Just curious, you know...) Next time someone posts here, 2021. =) |
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| Jan-27-19 | | jith1207: I guess I came too early.
Not the first time it has happened. |
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| Jan-27-19 | | jith1207: If the answer is being sought out still.... I found this game by this Game Collection: Chessgames.com members in action |
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