1/9/2024 – Almost 30 years ago, at the 1995 edition of the Hoogovens Tournament in Wijk aan Zee, Roberto Cifuentes and Vadim Zvjaginsev played an astounding game. Known as the ‘Pearl of Wijk aan Zee’, the encounter features a number of sacrifices, including a successful queen sacrifice. Zvjaginsev went all-in for the attack once Cifuentes made an innocent-looking move. Unmissable!
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Cifuentes v. Zvjaginsev
With a 2585 rating, Russian GM Vadim Zvjaginsev was among the top 100 players in the world in January 1995. His opponent in this memorable game, Chilean-born Roberto Cifuentes, had a 2535 rating at the time.
The fireworks came to be after the innocent-looking 24.Bg2
Cifuentes v. Zvjaginsev
Zvjaginsev found 24...Nxf2, which is justified by 25.Kxf2 Rxe3, decisively opening up the white king’s position.
The winning continuations are not obvious at all, though. But Zvjaginsev, both a graduate in Economics and a fan of Vladimir Nabokov, was evidently inspired, and later found the beautiful 31...Qe3+
Not even after playing this remarkable sacrifice was Black winning trivially, as Zvjaginsev found a couple more nice touches before Cifuentes resigned the game four moves later.
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