Zaitseva — Zatulovskaya

Yerevan, 1980

• Ludmila Zaitseva (1956)Woman International Master (1982) and Woman Grandmaster (1986), Soviet and Russian chess player. She won the Moscow championship three times (1976, 1979, 1984) and the Russian women's championship twice (1993, 1996), and was a regular finalist at the USSR women's championship.
• Tatiana Zatulovskaya (1935–2017)Woman Grandmaster (1976) and Honored Master of Sport of the USSR (1967), Soviet and later Israeli chess player. She won the USSR women's championship three times (1960, 1962, 1963) and Olympiad gold twice with the Soviet team (1963, 1966); she later won the Women's Seniors World Championship twice (1993, 1997).

Once again, the careless c5-c4 advance turns out to be bad for Black. This confirms, once more, what years of experience have already taught.

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2. This continuation looked quite reasonable, intending to play e7-e5
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9. Black has landed in a difficult position: the queenside pawns lack enough support, and White's bishop on e4 holds an excellent post
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29. Ten moves later, Black resigned