Susan Polgar: 24

brilliancies from
her games
edited by Bill Harvey

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The reader is presented with 24 diagrams from the games

of Zsusza Polgar and invited to discover the move that
results in a mate or outright win. The disk on the diagram
indicates who moves first and who plays from the bottom
of the board. Solutions are provided at the end of the
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1) Zsuzsa Polgar
vs Circakov
Targoviste, 1981

4) Zsuzsa Polgar vs
Krastjo Dimitrov
Targoviste, 1984

White mates in 7.
2) Branimir Vujic
vs Zsuzsa Polgar
Panonija, 1981

5) Zsuzsa Polgar
vs Ian Rogers
Amsterdam, 1985

White mates in 2.
3) Smirnov vs
Zsuzsa Polgar
Televen, 1981

6) Zsuzsa Polgar vs
Peter Hardicsay
Hungary, 1985

Black mates in 5.

White mates in 2.

7) Zsuzsa Polgar vs
Nikola Spiridonov
Albena, 1986

10) Zsuzsa Polgar

vs Jay Whitehead
New York, 1987

White mates in 4.
8) Zsuzsa Polgar vs
Peter Jamieson
Adelaide, 1987

11) Zsuzsa Polgar

vs Nick De Firmian
New York, 1989

White mates in 4.
9) Zsuzsa Polgar vs
Fernando Costa
Brocco, 1987

12) Zsuzsa Polgar

vs David Norwood
London, 1989

White mates in 3.

White mates in 4.

13) Marcelino Sion Castro

vs Zsuzsa Polgar
Salamanca, 1989

16) Lajos Portisch

vs Zsuzsa Polgar
Budapest, 1991

Black mates in 4.

Black mates in 6.

14) Zsuzsa Polgar vs

Vasilios Kotronias
Corfu, 1990

17) Zsuzsa Polgar

vs Leonid Yudasin
Munich, 1991

White mates in 5.
15) Zsuzsa Polgar vs
Miodrag Todorcevic
Pamplona, 1991

18) Zsuzsa Polgar

vs Efim Geller
Aruba, 1992

19) Zsuzsa Polgar vs

Wolfgang Uhlmann
Aruba, 1992

22) Yadira Hernandez-Guerrero

vs Zsuzsa Polgar
Moscow, 1994

20) Zsuzsa Polgar vs

Cristina Adela Foisor
Tilburg, 1994

23) Zsuzsa Polgar

vs Anatoly Karpov
Monte Carlo, 1994

21) Alisa Maric

vs Zsuzsa Polgar
Tilburg, 1994

24) Zsuzsa Polgar

vs Jorma Kekki
Tampere, 1996

Black mates in 8.

White mates in 4.

Solutions

13) 1...Qe7+ 2.Kd5 Qd7+ 3.Kc4 Qc6+

14) 1.Bxf5+ Rxf5 2.Re7+ Rf7 3.Rxf7+ Kg6 4.Rg7+
w/5.Ne3+

1) 1.Bg5 if 1...Nf6 2.Qd4

2) 1...R8d2+ if 2.Nxd2 Qxg3+ mates;
if 2.Ke3 Qh6+ mates; if 2.Kg1 Nxg3
3) 1...Qh2+ 2.Kxh2 Rxh3+ 3.Kg1 Rbh8

15)1.Qxf5 Bxe6 (if 1...Rxf5 2.Re8+ Rf8 3.Bxf8

Bxg4 4.Bc5+ Bf8 5.Bxa7) 2.Qxe6 Qf2 3.Bxf8 Qxf8
4.Rxc4
16) 1...Qxf1+ 2.Bxf1 Nf2+ 3.Kg1 Nf3+ 4.Kg2
Ng4+

4) 1.Qxg6+ Rg7 2.Rxh7 Nf6 3.Bxf6 Qxf6 4.Qxe8+

17) 1.Nf6+ Kh8 2.Ne8
5) 1.Ra5
6) 1.Ne4
7) 1.Nxf6 if 1...gxf6 2.Bh6+ or if 1...Qe6 2.Nh7+

18) 1.Nd4
19) 1.Bf5+ Kxf7 2.Bxd7+ Kg7 3.Bb5
20) 1.Nf6 if 1...Bxf6 2.Qxh6+ wins the rook

8) 1.Bc6+ if 1...Kxa7 2.Qa4+

21) 1...Nf3+ 2.Kh1 Rh4 3.h3 Qd6
9) 1.Qg5
10)1.Qc1 if 1...Rxg3 or 1...Nf6 2.Rd1
11) 1.Bb2 w/2.Ra1
12) 1.Qe7

22) 1...Qxg3 2.hxg3 Nf3+ 3.Rh2 Nxd2

23) 1.Be4 if 1...Rd8 2.Bxb7 Qxb7 3.Nd6
24) 1.e6 if 1...Rxf6 or 1...Qd7 2.Ba3+