[Event "Voronezh op-A 18th"] [Site "Voronezh"] [Date "2014.06.18"] [Round "6"] [White "Pogosian, Georgy"] [Black "Shuvalova, Polina"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "2243"] [BlackElo "2070"] [Annotator "USER"] [Variant "From Position"] [ECO "?"] [Opening "?"] [FEN "7k/1pp4p/3p3b/pQ1Pp3/P1P1N3/5P1R/KP6/2q3r1 b - - 0 31"] [SetUp "1"] [Source "https://lichess.org/study/tXaenEL9/m44XekYh"] [Orientation "black"] [ChapterMode "gamebook"] { From a very young age, Polina was playing a lot of chess, participating both in the open tournaments in Russia, as well as in the world youth competitions. At the age of 13, she was already knocking at the door of the 2100 club and won quite some nice games. --- For this video/.pgn, I have decided to cover the following game, played at the Voronezh Open in 2014. Her opponent was Pogosian Georgy, rated at 2243 ELO. We join the game on move 31. It is clear that the game has gone Polina's way, with the king being exposed on a2 and the queen and rook on the back rank. However, Black's king is also not very safe and the deadly Qe8 is threatened. Can you find the move Polina played here? } 31... c6 { A fabulous interference, preventing the queen from going to e8 and also trying to force her away from the c4 pawn. } (31... Qa1+ 32. Kb3 Qd1+ { Only leads to the repetition. } (32... Rg2 { As after } 33. Qe8+ { Black has to go back with } 33... Rg8 { And the game is completely unclear. })) 32. dxc6 { Now the queen is unable to get to the last rank and give any checks, so Black has a lot of time to create threats against the White king. } (32. Qxb7 Qxc4+ 33. Qb3 Ra1+ { And Black wins. }) 32... Qa1+ (32... Qb1+ { This move is also sufficient, but it leads to the same position one move later. } 33. Ka3 Qa1+ { we get the same position by tranposition - but one move later. }) 33. Kb3 Rg2 { White has no checks and there is nothing White can do to deal with the threat. } 34. c5 { Desperately trying to open the escape path for the king, but in vain. } 34... Qxb2+ { And Polina went on to win with ease here. } (34... Rxb2+ { Is also sufficient, but lichess doesn't allow me to give multiple solutions, sorry. }) (34... d5 { Is also sufficient, but lichess doesn't allow me to give multiple solutions, sorry. }) 0-1