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Polish Immortal is the name given to a chess game between Glucksberg and Miguel Najdorf played in Warsaw. The game is celebrated because of Black's sacrifice of all four of his minor pieces. Some sources give the date of this game as 1930 or 1935, [1] and give the name of the player of the white pieces as "Glucksberg".
The Najdorf Variation [1] (/ ˈ n aɪ d ɔːr f / NY-dorf) of the Sicilian Defence is one of the most popular, reputable, and deeply studied of all chess openings. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Modern Chess Openings calls it the " Cadillac " or " Rolls-Royce " of chess openings. [ 4 ]
Miguel Najdorf (/ n aɪ d ɔːr f / NY-dorf; born Mojsze Mendel Najdorf; [a] 15 April 1910 – 4 July 1997) was a Polish-Argentine chess grandmaster.Originally from Poland, he was in Argentina when World War II began in 1939, and he stayed and settled there.
The line was most famously played in game 7 [1] and game 11 [2] of the 1972 World Chess Championship match between Fischer and Spassky. In both games Fischer played Black and grabbed the pawn. In the first, he reached a secure position with a comfortable material advantage but only secured a draw.
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Zurich 1953 was a chess tournament won by Vasily Smyslov.It was a Candidates Tournament for the 1954 World Chess Championship, which led to the match between Smyslov and Mikhail Botvinnik.
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1929: Glucksberg vs Miguel Najdorf, Warsaw. In this game, dubbed the 'Polish Immortal', Black sacrifices all four minor pieces for victory. [38] circa 1933: Einstein versus Oppenheimer, recorded game in playbooks, said to have been played between physicists Albert Einstein (or his son Hans Albert Einstein) and J. Robert Oppenheimer. No ...