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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 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 ]
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 . In the second, Spassky surprised Fischer with a theoretical novelty and won the game after Fischer defended poorly, allowing Spassky to trap Fischer's queen and handing Fischer his ...
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".
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.
Najdorf may refer to: Miguel Najdorf, Polish-born Argentine chess grandmaster; Sicilian Defence, Najdorf Variation, chess opening used by Miguel Najdorf
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Following the Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires 1939, he stayed in Argentina until 1948, where he won many tournaments, some of them in competition with Miguel Najdorf: Mar del Plata 1941 (ahead of Najdorf and Erich Eliskases), Buenos Aires 1941 (tied with Najdorf), Buenos Aires 1947 (ahead of Najdorf, Eliskases and Max Euwe).