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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.

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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:

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

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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

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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!

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

17. Qxf8+ Kxf8 18. Bh6+ Kg8 19. Re8#