Restoring the Balance....

greenpawn34

Only Chess

27 Mar 15

greenpawn34

e4

Joined: 06 May 08
Moves: 43363

27 Mar 15

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Showed 'Blunder of the Year' from the Women's FIDE World Championship.
Here is a game showing some good play to exploit a back rank weakness.

M. Muzychuk -K. Humpy
White to play

***Spoiler Alert*** Move played next post.

greenpawn34

e4

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Moves: 43363

27 Mar 15

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Data Fly

Joined: 18 Feb 10
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27 Mar 15

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My favourite backrank finish came from a game between two women (Judit Polgar vs Pavlina Chilingirova):

White to play and win:

byedidia

Mister Why

San Carlos, CA

Joined: 21 Feb 12
Moves: 6039

27 Mar 15

Originally posted by Data Fly
My favourite backrank finish came from a game between two women (Judit Polgar vs Pavlina Chilingirova):

White to play and win:
[fen]r1b2rk1/pp1p1p1p/2n3pQ/5qB1/8/2P5/P4PPP/4RRK1 w - - 0 17[/fen]

Yeah, I love that game. It's one of the few games I have committed to memory.

ketchuplover

Isolated Pawn

Wisconsin USA

Joined: 09 Dec 01
Moves: 71666

27 Mar 15

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Originally posted by Data Fly
My favourite backrank finish came from a game between two women (Judit Polgar vs Pavlina Chilingirova):

White to play and win:
[fen]r1b2rk1/pp1p1p1p/2n3pQ/5qB1/8/2P5/P4PPP/4RRK1 w - - 0 17[/fen]

I like Re4

Data Fly

Joined: 18 Feb 10
Moves: 0

27 Mar 15

Yes, that is the obvious try. Unfortunately Black can just about survive and keep the extra piece:

White's win is forced and Polgar must have seen it from about 11, otherwise her subsequent play doesn't make sense!

DeepThought

Losing the Thread

Quarantined World

Joined: 27 Oct 04
Moves: 87415

28 Mar 15

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For those who don't want to work out datafly's problem or look at a database:

FEN	r1b2rk1/pp1p1p1p/2n3pQ/5qB1/8/2P5/P4PPP/4RRK1 w - - 0 1
SETUP	1