Lhamsuren Myagmarsuren

    The Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia only lists about two dozen Mongolian players, but the first internationally known player was Lhamsuren Myagmarsuren (born February 17, 1938). 

    He was awarded the International Master title in 1966 and his peak rating was 2380 which he achieved in 971. He qualified for the the Interzonal tournament in Sousse, Tunisia 1967 where he finished with a 6.5-14.5 score and tied for 19th place (out of 22) with IM Miguel Cuellar of Columbia. 

     Myagmarsuren was the Mongolian champion in 1965, 1980, 1981 and 1982 and played for Mongolia in the Chess Olympiads from 1960 to1982 where at Leipzig in 1960 he won an individual gold medal at fourth board with a +14 –1 =5 score.  

    His opponent on the following game was Julio Garcia Spticco (1930-2020) of Bolivia. An educator of some reputation. If you read Spanish there is a nice tribute to him HERE. It’s interesting to compare the N’s. White’s N maneuvers accomplish something whereas black’s do not. 

 

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Lhamsuren Myagmarsuren–Julio Garcia Soruco1–0B90Leipzig Olympiad Qualifier7Leipzig GDR23.10.1960Stockfish 17

B80: Sicilian 1.e4 c5 2.f3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.xd4 f6 5.c3 a6 6.f3 e6 7.e3 e7 8.d2 d7 9.e2 9.g4 Tis aggressive move serves white better. b5 10.0-0-0 c6 11.g5 h5 12.ce2 a5 13.xa5 xa5 14.g3 xg3 15.hxg3 White is slightly better. Caprio,G (2299)-Shytaj,L (2475) Spoleto 2011 9...b5 10.a4 b4 11.a2 a5 12.b5 0-0 13.g4 e8 Black begins losing a lot of time with his Ns, but tjere does not seem to be any effective plans available. On the other hand his position has no real weaknesses. 14.0-0-0 a6 15.b3 Preferable was 15...Nc5 c6 16.b1 This makes room to reposition his N. d7 17.c1 ac7 18.d4 b7 19.h4 Black has not accomplished anything in the way of Q-side counterplay whereas whits no begins his K-sdie attack. It's hard to believe, but blacks position will collapse in just a handful of moves. a6 20.g5 f5 21.d3 fxe4 22.fxe4 b7 23.f2 a6 A tactical error that loses quickly. His best try, 23...e5, would not be sufficient to equalize, but at least it would have avoided immediate disaster. 24.xe6 ...and wins. xf2 24...xe6 25.c4 d5 26.exd5 d6 27.e4 and white has a winning position. 25.xf2 xe4 26.c4 h8 27.he1 f5 28.xa6 28.f4 was also very strong. xe6 29.xe6 c7 30.d4 d8 31.d5 c8 32.f7 and black cannot avoid mate. 28...xe6 29.b5 c8 30.xe8 Bkacj resigned 30.xe8 xe8 31.xe6 and black is short a R. 1–0

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