Judith Polgar

Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don't have this when you play a computer. I can't confuse it.

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[Event "Hunguest Hotels Super Chess Tournament"]
[Site "Budapest HUN"]
[Date "2003.04.18"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Judit Polgar"]
[Black "Ferenc Berkes"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Annotator "David Hayes"]
[BlackElo "2578"]
[ECO "C13"]
[TimeControl "0"]
[WhiteElo "2715"]

{ In 1991, at the age of 15 and 4 months, Ms. Judit Polgar rocketed to the
title of Grandmaster at a younger age than any other human being overturning
the record set by Mr. Bobby Fischer 33 years before. A record she held until
1994.|Her list of accomplishments is impressive by any standard. In August
1998, Judit became the first woman to win the U.S. Open. At the age of 12,
she was the youngest ever player to break into the FIDE Top 100 players
rating list where she ranked 55 in 1989. She is the only woman to qualify for
a World Championship tournament. With a career peak rating of 2735, she was
the first woman to have surpassed 2700 Elo. In 2005 she ranked eighth in the
world. She was the highest rated woman in the world from January 1989 until
the March 2015 rating list when she retired from competitive chess.|She
has won or shared first in the chess tournaments of Hastings 1993, Madrid
1994, Leon 1996, U.S. Open 1998, Hoogeveen 1999, Sigeman & Co 2000, Japfa
2000, and the Najdorf Memorial 2000.|She is the only woman to have won a
game against a reigning world number one player, and has defeated eleven
current or former world champions in either rapid or classical chess: Magnus
Carlsen, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik, Boris Spassky,
Vasily Smyslov, Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Ruslan Ponomariov,
Alexander Khalifman, and Rustam Kasimdzhanov. } 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 dxe4 5. Nxe4 Be7 6. Bxf6 Bxf6 7. Nf3 O-O 8. Qd2 Nd7 { Black is now
ready to advance e5 to open the center and develop its white-squared bishop. } 9. O-O-O { White stops black's e5 move due to the pin on the d7 knight. } 9... Be7 { Black chooses to keep his bishop pair. } 10. Bd3 b6 11. Neg5 { White makes a
threatening move with the hope of creating a pawn weakness. } 11... h6 12. Bh7+ { A
surprising move that real force. } 12... Kh8 13. Be4 hxg5 { Black sets a trap. } 14. g4 { To prevent black's g4, and fix the target on g5. } ( { Black has the
advantage after: } 14. Bxa8 g4 15. Ne5 Bg5 { The point. } 16. Nxg4 Bxd2+ 17. Rxd2 Nf6 18. Ne3 { Black wins with a large material advantage. } ) 14... Rb8 15. h4 { White will open the h-file on black's king. } 15... g6 ( { No better is: } 15... gxh4 16. g5 f5 17. Qf4 fxe4 18. Qxh4+ Kg8 19. Qh8+ Kf7 20. Qh5+ Kg8 21. g6 Bg5+ 22. Nxg5 Qxg5+ 23. Qxg5 Re8 24. Rh3 Nf6 25. Rdh1 Kf8 26. Rh7 e5 27. Rxg7 Kxg7 28. Qh6+ Kg8 29. Qh8# ) 16. hxg5+ Kg7 17. Qf4 { Planning to bring the
queen around to the h-file. } 17... Bb7 18. Rh7+ { This sacrifice allow white to
bring its queen to the h-file with check. } ( { The immediate Qh2 bites on
steel. } 18. Qh2 Rh8 ) 18... Kxh7 19. Qh2+ Kg8 20. Rh1 Bxg5+ 21. Nxg5 Qxg5+ 22. f4 Qxf4+ { A necessary series of sacrifices to stop mate. } 23. Qxf4 Bxe4 24. Qxe4 { Black resigns here despite having roughly equal material. White if far more
developed and active. White will soon gain even more material. } ( 24. Qh6 Bxh1 25. Qxh1 ) 24... Rbc8 25. g5 Kg7 26. Qc6 Nb8 27. Qc3 Nd7 28. Rf1 Rh8 29. d5+ Kg8 30. dxe6 fxe6 31. Qc6 Nf8 32. Qb7 Re8 33. Qxa7 Rh7 34. a4 e5 35. Qb7 e4 36. b4 Re6 37. a5 bxa5 38. bxa5 e3 39. Qf3 Re8 40. Qd5+ Kh8 41. a6 Rg7 42. a7 e2 43. Re1 c6 44. Qxc6 Rge7 45. a8=Q Rxa8 46. Qxa8 Kg8 47. Qc6 Kf7 48. Qc4+ Kg7 49. Rxe2 Rxe2 50. Qxe2 1-0