Judit a shining example of women’s competitiveness in chess world
A few women players like Vera Menchik, the Polgar sisters, Maia Chiburdanidze, and more recently Koneru Humpy and Hou Yifan are the ones who have made their own place in Open Chess tournaments and defeated top Grandmasters and World Champions alike. Judith Polgar is the highest ever woman rated player in the World and just a day before the International Women’s Day, it is befitting to go through one of her games.
In the game which follows, Judith is pitted against one of the toughest World Champions Anatoly Karpov, who in his hey days was considered one of the players most difficult to win.
White: Judit Polgar (2670) – Black: Anatoly Karpov (2735)
Budapest, 1998
Caro-Kan Defence
1.e4 c6
The Caro Kann Defence
2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7 5.Ng5 Ngf6 6.Bd3 e6 7.N1f3 Bd6 8.Qe2 h6 9.Ne4 Nxe4 10.Qxe4 Qc7 11.Qg4
Prodding for weakness?
11. ..Kf8
Black could also have played 11…g5 or 11. ..Rg8
12.Be3
If 12.0–0 c5 13.c3 b6 14.Re1 Bb7 15.h4 c4
12…c5
This decision by Black to open up on the queen side is a bit surprising. If 12…b6 13.Nd2 (13.0–0–0 Bb7 14.Rhe1 Rc8 15.Kb1 Nf6 16.Qh3 c5 17.dxc5 bxc5 18.c4 Bxf3 19.Qxf3 Ke7) 13…Nf6 14.Qe2 Nd5 15.Nc4 Ba6 16.Nxd6 Bxd3 17.Qxd3 Qxd6 18.0–0 Rd8 19.Rad1 b5 20.a4 interestingly was played in a previous game between these same players and resulted in a draw
13.dxc5 Bxc5
If 13…Nxc5 14.0–0–0 e5 (14…Nxd3+ 15.Rxd3 e5 16.Qe4 Be6 17.Rhd1) 15.Bf5 Ne6 16.Nh4! Qe7 17.Bxe6 Bxe6 18.Nf5 Bxf5 19.Qxf5 b6 20.Rd5 with White enjoying advantage
14.0–0–0
A surprising and an interesting decision to castle long!
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She killed Karpov.
Judit Polgar finally put aside the old prejudice that women were not good enough for top class chess.
Are men good enough to balance the pressure of concentration on the sixty-four chess squares against a family life? Please discuss!
That R&P ending posted here recently (Judit Polgar vs Nigel Short) was cool. JP played it superb. She must have been still a teenager at the time.
I wonder, why there is such a big gap between Judit and the other leading female chess players. No other women have even come near to her peak performance (2735, Oct 2005), although they have much better training opportunities than Judit had. They can use internet, rybka and all databases for training, like men and boys do, nevertheless women seem to be basically unable to overcome the ELO-barrier of 2600. Hou Yifan’s rating seems to even decrease.
What is the difference between Judit and the other girls ? What does Susan think about that ?
“Judit Polgar finally put aside the old prejudice that women were not good enough for top class chess.
Are men good enough to balance the pressure of concentration on the sixty-four chess squares against a family life? Please discuss!”
I would love to see a man pass a baby through his private parts and stay competitive in anything!