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Evans On Chess. June 10, 1994. Copyright by GM Larry Evans.
THREE SISTERS
"This may sound ungallant, but I think chess is really a game for the
masculine imagination," said Harry Golombek, the late dean of British
chess. "We must bow to you wonderful men!" curtsied a lady player.
Women never mounted a successful assault on the male bastion of chess
until a weird experiment in Hungary in the 1970s. Three sisters named
Polgar who had no special knack for chess -- Susan, Sofia, and Judith --
were taught the game before age five and moulded into chess champions by
remarkable parents bent on proving that "it takes work from early
childhood to achieve great results."
They hired grandmaster coaches. They fought the Communist regime by
insisting their daughters compete only in mixed events, not just those
restricted to females. The girls, who range from 17 to 25, are fluent in
many languages and well-rounded. Yet some male rivals who received
extensive chess training from the state--and subsidies to boot--mocked
them as freaks and "trained dogs."
The parents are both educators who taught the girls at a tender age that
winning is the best revenge. Judith, the youngest, already is ranked
among the world's top 25. In 1993, before turning 17, she won a match
against ex-world champ Boris Spassky. Recently she achieved the best
result of her career by running away with a strong event in Madrid at 7-2
(5 wins, 4 draws) two points ahead of America's Gata Kamsky.
But she posted a mediocre even score in her next tournament at Las
Palmas. In the last two rounds she lost to FIDE titleholder Anatoly
Karpov, 43, and drew with Kamsky, 20, who took first at 6.5 - 2.5.
"Judith Polgar proved a woman can do well against the best men," noted
former Chess Life editor Larry Parr. "But there is a possible perverse
outcome. If the phenomenal talent she displayed at 12 doesn't take her
much further, then people may say hormones did her in and that chess is a
man's game after all."
How far Judith can go or whether she will ever be able to launch a
credible challenge for the crown is a tantalizing question. Here she
unleashes a fierce attack against Latvia's Alexey Shirov, 21, ranked
number three in the world.
Instead of the prudent 13...Bd7 Black gambled on b5. After White
sacrificed a Knight, the defense 21...Rf8 fails owing to 22 Qe6 Kd8 23
Qxe5; and so does 21...Kf6 22 Qe6 Kxg5 23 h4 Kh5 24 g4 mate. Shirov
perished when forced to give up his Queen to stave off disaster.
White: JUDITH POLGAR Black: ALEXEY SHIROV Sicilian Defense 1994 1 e4 c5 2
Nf3 d6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Qxd4 Nc6 5 Bb5 Bd7 6 Bxc6 Bxc6 7 Nc3 Nf6 8 Bg5 e6 9
O-O-O Be7 10 Qd3 O-O 11 Nd4 Qa5 12 f4 Rfc8 13 f5 b5? 14 fxe6 fxe6 15 Nxe6
b4 16 Bxf6 Bxf6 17 Nd5 Be5 18 Kb1 Bb5 19 Ne7 Kf7 20 Qd5 Kxe7 21 Ng5 Re8
22 Rhf1! Bxf1 23 Qxa5 Be2 24 Rd2 Bg4 25 h3 Rf8 26 a4 Rf1 27 Ka2 Bd7 28
Rd5 Kf6 29 Nxh7 Kg6 30 Rxe5 dxe5 31 Qa6 Kxh7 32 Qxf1 Bxa4 33 Qf5 Kh8 34
Qh5 Kg8 35 Qxe5 Black Resigns