Lev Polougaïevsky

Lev Abramovitch Polougaïevski , born the November 20th 1934 with Moguilev (RSS of Bielorussia, the USSR) and dead the August 30th 1995 with Paris, is a international Large-Master with the failures. Several times champion of the USSR, it also was on several occasions claiming with the championship of the world of failures, but without never managing to gain the title.

Regarded as one of the strongest players of the world in the years 1960 and 1970, Polougaïevsky is also known for its many contributions to the theory of the openings. Its work in the sicilian Défense remains important. It thus created an alternative of the Sicilienne Najdorf which bears its name: very sharp, the “Polougaïevsky alternative” however is very discussed also. In the Secrecies of a large Master , a single book in its kind, he tells the birth of “his” alternative and reveals the mysteries of his preparations,

At the beginning of the year 1977, it develops a brilliant theoretical innovation after several days of analysis studied the alternative up to 25 blows of depth, even more. The innovation will be finally played 4 years later with the tournament of Moscow and will involve the disappearance of one of the principal lines of the complex Botvinnik system in semi-Slavic defense.

Part of anthology

Polougaïevsky - Torre, Moscow, 1981, semi-Slavic Defense D44

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Cf3 Cf6 4.Cc3 e6 5.Fg5 dc4 6.e4 b5 7.e5 h6 8.Fh4 g5 9.Cxg5 hg5 10.Fxg5 Cbd7 11.ef6 Fb7 12.g3 c5 13.d5 Cb6 14.de6! Dxd1+ 15.Txd1 Fxh1 16.e7! a6 17.h4!! Fh6 18.f4!! b4 19.Td6 Tb8 20.Cd1 Fxg5 21.fg5 Cd5 22.Fxc4 Cxe7 23.fe7 Rxe7 24.Tf6 Thf8 25.Ce3 Fe4 26.Txa6 Tbd8 27.Tf6 Td6 28.Tf4 Td4 29.h5 Fd3 30.Cd5+ Rd6 31.Txd4 cd4 32.Fb3 Fc2 33.Fxc2 Rxd5 34.Fb3+? (h7!) Re5 35.g4 Rf4 36.g6 Re3 37.g7 Tc8 38.Rf1 d3 39.Rg2 Rf4 40.h6 1-0

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