Taimanov’s Triple Queen Sacrifice

January 11, 2021 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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GM Mark Taimanov surprises strong theoretician GM Lev Polugaevsky with his home preparation and quickly prevails! 3 times he sacrifices his Queen (not accepted) and finally with an exchange sacrifice (accepted) starts a king hunt! In the end of the video as usual you can solve the daily puzzle!
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Mark Taimanov vs Lev Polugaevsky
USSR Championship (1960), Leningrad URS, rd 13, Feb-14
Queen’s Gambit Accepted: Mannheim Variation (D23)
1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Qa4+ Nbd7 5. Nc3 e6 6. e4 c5
7. d5 exd5 8. e5 d4 9. Bxc4 dxc3 10. exf6 Qxf6 11. Bg5 Qc6
12. O-O-O cxb2+ 13. Kxb2 Be7 14. Rhe1 f6 15. Bb5 Qb6 16. Kc1
fxg5 17. Bxd7+ Kf8 18. Rxe7 Kxe7 19. Qe4+ Kd8 20. Bf5+ Kc7
21. Qe5+ Kc6 22. Rd6+ Kb5 23. Qb2+
1-0
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