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H6 Mate is inevitable, so Black resigned. " 39 ... £6 8 7 After this win, I felt that nobody could stop me from winning the tournament. 6 5 4 3 2 1 a b e d e f g h My mother was very happy with her birthday present me winning the tournament! Chapter 3 - Dynamic Pawn Play 55 Th e next day was a day o ff and I spent i t with my mom and my friend Rosa de las Nieves. Rosa was a pnotographer working for Jaque; she was present at all my Spanish tournaments and became a big fan of mine. Here is a picture she took on that enj oyable free day: 56 From GM to Top Ten We conclude this chapter with two complete games which have something in common - at the critical moment, when pawn tension had built up in a certain area of the board, I decided to maintain my dynamism and activity at the cost of one or even two pawns, rather than give up the tension and play a slightly inferior position.

Vz-Vz 9 Lev Polugaevsky - Jumt Polgar Roquebrune (blitz) 1 992 During the first Roquebrune rapid tournament, a blitz contest was also organized. Up to the age of 1 2 or 1 3 , this definitely was my favourite form of playing chess, and in 1 992 I still enjoyed it a lot! Actually, that has not changed today. . 44. J�hlt! Now and one move later, the exposed position of the e l -rook comes as an essential complement to the mating net. i;xh I f2t promotes the pawn. 4S .. J3h2t 46. �e3 Strictly speaking, this loses most quickly of all the options, since it allows mate in two, but Polu obviously wanted to avoid the fork .

Paul had only ten minutes left to reach move 40 and spent two of them on this rather docile move. He might have already given up hope of saving the game. 26 . . :B:ac 1 Instead Black could put up resistance with 26 .. f5! freeing the king and stabilizing the knight on h5. 27 ... f4! An important move, forcing the rook to either weaken the back-rank defence or leave the b7-square undefended. d6t The bishop, a true hero of my army over the last few moves, delivers the decisive blow. d2! would be best.