#12 · The Polish Immortal

Casual game · 1930 · vs Glücksberg
You are Miguel Najdorf.
1910–1997 · El Viejo · Meet the Legend

Warsaw, around 1930. You are young Miguel Najdorf, playing Black in a quiet Dutch Defence that is about to become anything but quiet: all four of your minor pieces are going into the fire, one after another, and the final blow is delivered by a pawn stepping to h5. Najdorf spent the rest of his life calling this his Polish Immortal.

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