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Ivanchuk's amazing queen sac in the najdorf

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Cymantex
Dec 20, 2009
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I remember Ivanchuk playing this amazing queen sac last year and later i heard it also got the best novelty of the year prise as well.
Does anyone know the current evaluation of the sac?
Is it playable or completely refuted?

Here's the line for those of you who haven't seen it:

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contrapunctus
Dec 20, 2009
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#2

Well the current mainline is:

 

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tryst
Dec 20, 2009
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#3

Wow! Who was he playing against?

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Cymantex
Dec 20, 2009
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#4

Sergey karjakin.

Here's the whole game:

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tryst
Dec 20, 2009
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#5

Great game! Thanks, CymantexSmile

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Cymantex
Dec 20, 2009
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#6
contrapunctus wrote:

Well the current mainline is:

 

So they havn't refuted the variation yet?! Sweet!
Thank you so much for posting! Smile

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Chef-KOdAwAri
Apr 22, 2020
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#7

11 years later....

https://www.chess.com/a/32iFeiMrvipgn

And black has a slight lead.. Ran on Stockfish11 to a depth of 35 per move..

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Chef-KOdAwAri
Apr 22, 2020
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#8