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Peter Svidler - Judit Polgar in the Najdorf Opocensky

  • NM GreenLaser
  • | Jun 28, 2010
  • | 4062 views
  • | 22 comments

Peter Svidler was born June 17, 1976 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg again). He won the Russian Championship five times from 1994 to 2008. In 1994, he became a grandmaster. Svidler was the Chess960 World Champion three times in 2003, 2004, and 2005.

Judit Polgar was born about five weeks after Svidler and became a grandmaster three years earlier than he did. The game shown is their meeting at Dos Hermanas 1999. They finished at the bottom along with Viswanathan Anand scoring 3.5/9. Anand, the present World Champion had no wins. Svidler won a single game. Polgar won two games. One was against Anand (shown last week) and one against Svidler (this game). Both games won by Polgar were Sicilian adventures. Polgar played the white side against Anand and used 6.Be3. Svidler was the player of the white pieces here, and chose 6.Be2. With 6...e6, Black could play Scheveningen style. 6...e5 keeps the variation a Najdorf and is the Opocensky line. Some writers call it either the Classical Variation or the Karpov Variation.

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  • 3 years ago

    NM GreenLaser

    shahirildi, to get a PGN copy: click on [PGN], click on the PGN game (it should be highlighted in blue), keyboard Ctrl-C, go to a word processor, and keyboard Ctrl-V. Then you can print the game. You can also save the game with a .pgn extension. A program that plays pgn games should be able to play it.

  • 3 years ago

    Helipacter

    GL - thanks for the game and the annotations. I enjoy going through your posts to see the tactical shots that a patzer like me would ordinarily miss. (For example, when Svidler resigned, I had a "huh?!?" moment - obviously this early in the morning I missed Polgar's tactical shot to win the rook and bishop; but thanks to your notes I can now see why he resigned.)

    I know that your articles are for opening theory, but I tend to read them for the tactics that occur after the opening.

  • 3 years ago

    shahirildi

    plz put the direct link of PGN for download , I can not use office for editing. Sealed

  • 3 years ago

    NM GreenLaser

    Adamperfection, the two moves you mentioned after Nc7 are the ones I expected. 12...Nc6 has been played a few times. I did not find GM draws. The closest was one 2488 FM - 2674 IM draw. One 2419 WGM - 2351 WGM blitz game was 1-0.

  • 3 years ago

    NM GreenLaser

    The 10...Ne4 line with an exchange sacrifice should favor White. I do not know what numerical evaluation Adamperfection found. I guess it was something like .50 to .65 or so favoring White. The other choices for Black probably have a similar evaluation, but without a sacrifice, so Black has more leeway. It is interesting how Polgar got play without the sacrifice and still played the knight to e4 (move 13).

  • 3 years ago

    SanMigLight

    @adamperfection

    computers tend to salivate in material gains, unlike humans who are far more creative and gifted with intuition, we can't blame our race for seeing the beauty of the game from the passion of every moves within it, instead of the result.

    That is why human games never bores me.

  • 3 years ago

    NM GreenLaser

    dominicbody2, I believe in making an effort to take questions and statements at face value and see critiques as constructive. Some comments by readers are critical in different and even opposite ways such as asking for more or for less. However, that is OK. The article is under "Opening Theory." A specific opening line is exemplified with a game between two top players. There is analysis and game references, some with notes added. Readers responses are welcome. They can be answered best if they are specific. For those who think the analysis is limited to the note field, the lines of analysis are playable on the board by using the mouse on the moves. The prompts below the board, such as > do not play the notes. The prompts do play notes only after the first move of the note has been played by the mouse.

  • 3 years ago

    col_gonzo

    Thanks for sharing GreenLaser.  And thanks, also, for your analogy of chess articles and college courses.  Chess articles are food for thought, the reader can take as much or as little as he/she wants from them, just as the college student can study or skate. 

  • 3 years ago

    dominicbody2

    @GM Greenlaser

    Please don't take offense but your article could be summed up as "Here is a chess game that has happened".

    What did you want the reader to get from this article? 

  • 3 years ago

    zdigyigy

    I once heard that GM Nick Defirmian gained about 400 rating points from just studying the Najdorf Sicilian!    

  • 3 years ago

    Graveworm

    woow! fantastic lady

  • 3 years ago

    tarikhk

    People write whole books of analysis.

  • 3 years ago

    NM GreenLaser

    Perhaps, Woodwright makes a point that the article is written "for master level." However, masters might not agree what level the article is on. Any player can simply play through the moves played, without playing through the notes. That "reduces" the level by the self-selection of the reader. A good exercise for any reader after playing through the moves, is to find a move that resulted in White losing and then try to find a better move. That is a simple way to read an article. Playing through the notes adds more to the "level" of study on the reader's part. Reading an article is like going to college. A student can get a degree and graduate without learning or can study and learn while avoiding fake courses. You might say that this article is adjustable to the level of the reader. Necessary for the best utilization of an article is the reader's curiousity, effort, and critical thinking. A reader must ask questions that are not answered in an article and try to answer them. For example, after the note field says, "White resigns," there is an explanatory line. Were that line absent, the reader should search for the reason.

  • 3 years ago

    pdela

    Why "Dos Hermanas" stopped taking place?

  • 3 years ago

    dominicbody2

    I thought that too but analysis like "!" probably wouldn't be in-depth enough for masters?

    Not that it does someone my strength any good either.

  • 3 years ago

    Woodwright

    written for master level I suppose

  • 3 years ago

    dominicbody2

    What's the point of showing this game?

    What, if anything, are you trying to show/teach us?

    Your title, introductory paragraphs and notes tell us very little about why you think this is an interesting game or what you think we should take from it.

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