How WGM Natalia Pogonina defeated IM/WGM Natasha Bojkovic at the 2010 Chess Olympiad

Analysis by Chess Tutor NM William Stewart

Until this post we had yet to cover a chess game by Natalia Pogonina so we

started looking through the archives on ChessGames.com to see if we could

find an interesting and exciting game she recently played. We found a

fantastic game that she played at the 2010 Olympiad against Natasha

Bojkovic. It shows a great example of Natalia's aggressive playing style.

Pogonina played a fine attacking game by answering Bojkovic's Ruy Lopez with

the aggressive Archangel Variation. Bojkovic overestimated her position with

20. Ra6, refusing to trade and attempting to strengthen her position.  Pogonina was quickly able to whip up a fierce attack on the queenside, especially as White’s bishop on b3 was out of the game.  After some excellent re-grouping, Black was able to exploit the misplaced White's pieces on the kingside and achieve an attack to win a decisive amount of material. This earned Natalia a well-deserved attacking positional victory.

Watch the chess video: Pogonina vs. Bojkovic:

Thanks for reading.

P.S. (from Pogonina.com) Here's another fresh video about a game by Natalia by an unknown (to us) author. Thanks to him for making it:

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