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. 

 

[Event "Leipzig Olympiad Qualifier"] [Site "Leipzig GDR"] [Date "1960.10.23"] [Round "7"] [White "Lhamsuren Myagmarsuren"] [Black "Julio Garcia Soruco"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B90"] [Annotator "Stockfish 17"] [PlyCount "59"] [EventDate "1960.10.17"] [Source "Olimpbase"] {B80: Sicilian} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. f3 e6 7. Be3 Be7 8. Qd2 Bd7 9. Be2 (9. g4 {Tis aggressive move serves white better.} b5 10. O-O-O Nc6 11. g5 Nh5 12. Nce2 Qa5 13. Qxa5 Nxa5 14. Ng3 Nxg3 15. hxg3 { White is slightly better. Caprio,G (2299)-Shytaj,L (2475) Spoleto 2011}) 9... b5 {[%mdl 32]} 10. a4 b4 11. Na2 a5 12. Nb5 O-O 13. g4 Ne8 {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. O-O-O Na6 15. b3 {[%mdl 2048] Preferable was 15...Nc5} Bc6 16. Kb1 {This makes room to reposition his N.} Qd7 17. Nc1 Nac7 18. Nd4 Bb7 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.} Ba6 20. g5 f5 21. Nd3 fxe4 22. fxe4 Bb7 23. Nf2 Na6 { 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. Nxe6 {...and wins.} Rxf2 (24... Qxe6 25. Bc4 d5 26. exd5 Qd6 27. Ne4 { and white has a winning position.}) 25. Bxf2 Bxe4 26. Bc4 Kh8 27. Rhe1 Bf5 28. Bxa6 (28. Qf4 {was also very strong.} Bxe6 29. Bxe6 Qc7 30. Bd4 Qd8 31. Bd5 Rc8 32. Qf7 {and black cannot avoid mate.}) 28... Bxe6 29. Bb5 Qc8 30. Bxe8 { Bkacj resigned} (30. Bxe8 Qxe8 31. Rxe6 {and black is short a R.}) 1-0