Judit Polgar Pulls Through

5 September 2011, Kuala Lumpur – Judit Polgar manages a draw against top seed Sergey Karjakin in the second game of the third round FIDE World Cup 2011. With this draw, Judit Polgar pulls through to the next round and Sergey Karjakin eliminated. Others that got through included Vugar Gashimov, Alexander Grischuk, Teimour Radjabov, Dmitry Jakovenko and Bu Xiangzhi.

[Event "FIDE World Cup 2011"]
[Site "Khanty-Mansiysk RUS"]
[Date "2011.09.04"]
[Round "3.2"]
[White "Karjakin, Sergey"]
[Black "Polgar, Judit"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C80"]
[WhiteElo "2788"]
[BlackElo "2699"]
[PlyCount "88"]
[EventDate "2011.09.04"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Nxe4 6. d4 b5 7. Bb3 d5 8. dxe5 Be6 9. Nbd2 Be7 10. c3 O-O 11. Bc2 f5 12. Nb3 Qd7 13. Nbd4 Nxd4 14. Nxd4 c5 15. Nxe6 Qxe6 16. f3 Ng5 17. a4 Rad8 18. axb5 axb5 19. Ra7 Rd7 20. Rxd7 Qxd7 21. f4 Ne4 22. Bxe4 fxe4 23. f5 d4 24. f6 gxf6 25. Bh6 Rf7 26. cxd4 fxe5 27. Rxf7 Kxf7 28. Qh5+ Kg8 29. dxe5 c4 30. e6 Qa7+ 31. Kf1 Qa1+ 32. Kf2 Qxb2+ 33. Kg3 Qf6 34. Qe8+ Bf8 35. Bxf8 Qg5+ 36. Kh3 Qf5+ 37. Kh4 Qf4+ 38. Kh3 Qf5+ 39. g4 Qxf8 40. Qd7 Qf3+ 41. Kh4 Qf6+ 42. g5 Qf4+ 43. Kh5 Qf3+ 44. Kh4 Qf4+ 1/2-1/2

 

 

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(picture courtesy of The Week In Chess by Mark Crowther)