“Tal-like” Attack By The First Woman Grandmaster Nona Gaprindashvili

May 29, 2019 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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Georgian chess player Nona Gaprindashvili is the first woman to be awarded the FIDE title Grandmaster. She is the sixth women’s world chess champion (1962–1978) and is the strongest female player of her generation. In this video I am covering her game played against Yugoslav chess Grandmaster Juraj Nikolac where in the main line of Caro-Kann defense Gaprindashvili goes for two minor piece sacrifices and by launching a king hunt forces her opponent to resign!
A spectacular attack in the style of the Magician from Riga Mikhail Tal! In the end of the video as usual you can solve the daily puzzle!
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Nona Gaprindashvili vs Juraj Nikolac
Hoogovens (1979), Wijk aan Zee NED, rd 1, Jan-19
Caro-Kann Defense: Classical Variation. Main lines (B18)
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bf5 5.Ng3 Bg6 6.h4 h6 7.h5
Bh7 8.Nf3 Nd7 9.Bd3 Bxd3 10.Qxd3 e6 11.Bf4 Qa5+ 12.c3 Ngf6
13.a4 c5 14.O-O Rc8 15.Rfe1 c4 16.Qc2 Be7 17.Ne5 O-O 18.Nf5
Rfe8 19.Nxg7 Kxg7 20.Bxh6+ Kxh6 21.Nxf7+ Kxh5 22.g4+ Kh4 23.f3 Nxg4 24.Re4
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