After I Fork Your Rooks, You Can Fork Back…

After I Fork Your Rooks, You Can Fork Back…
This is a fascinating chess game played between Serbian and American chess players at World Championship Under 26!
In one of the sharpest variations of the Sicilian defense things are getting out of the hand very quickly and it’s there when the sacrifices are appearing on the board! The queen sacrifice followed by an epic underpromotion to a knight are moves which can be never forgotten!
James Tarjan vs Ljubomir Ljubojevic
WchT U26 fin-A 16th (1969), Dresden GDR, rd 5, Aug-01
Sicilian Defense: Classical Variation. General (B56)
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Nf6 6.Bc4 Bd7
7.Bb3 e6 8.Be3 Qa5 9.O-O Nxd4 10.Bxd4 Bc6 11.Bxf6 gxf6 12.f4
f5 13.Qh5 Qc5+ 14.Kh1 fxe4 15.f5 O-O-O 16.Qxf7 d5 17.fxe6 Be7
18.h3 Rhg8 19.Rad1 e3 20.Nxd5 e2 21.Nxe7+ Qxe7 22.Rxd8+ Qxd8
23.e7 Bxg2+ 24.Kh2 exf1=N+ 25.Kg1 Qd4+ 26.Qf2 Bd5+ 27.Kxf1
Qd1+
0-1
Video Thumbnail Credits: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AVRO-schaaktoernooi,_Ljubojevic,_Bestanddeelnr_926-4852.jpg

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