25/10. It was live on the net in a few places, including a vid from the official site, which is always a nice touch.

He seems to say some variation of this just about every time he loses.

<Fischer was able to think 16 moves in advance. Kasparov 10 moves.>

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Agree on point one. I'm a big Naka fan but I wish sometimes he'd just lose without 'playing rubbish'. Think all chess players know the feeling though - hard to credit an opponent at any level.

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Was she hot! Did your moves work?

After Bobby won the title he was interviewed on the Dick Cavett Show. Dick asked Bobby how many moves in advance could he see. Bobby just shrugged his shoulders and grinned, but he didn't say anything.

Dick pressed him for a answer, Bobby thought for a moment then said, sometimes I had to think 16 moves ahead. I think Bobby was conservative with his answer.

When a Grand Master sacrifices his Queen and leaves his opponent's Queen on the board, he has seen the line to victory. Bobby played a game where he sacrificed his Queen, he didn't exchange Queens, he left his opponent's Queen on the board.

And that game is called The Game of the Century against Donald Byrne back in 1956. And when you play that game back and count the moves after Bobby sacrifices his Queen it totals 24 moves!!!! So in that game he was able to see 24 moves ahead!!! Incredible! No one has even come close to that.

But I have to wonder did he really see that far ahead or did he miscalculate and pick it up along the way. It's hard to tell, but he did leave Byrne's Queen on the board and as I said before if you do that then you at least think you can see the line, and his line was successful.

I agree with you, sometimes Bobby miscalculated in his games so that means he wasn't always able to properly see his calculation. The proof is that he lost some games. He won more than he lost, but he still lost.

It's hard to believe that Bobby could see 24 moves ahead. I wish he was still alive and I had the opportunity to ask him. I bet someone or more asked him, but who? That intrigues me, the more I think about it the more intrigued I get. Somebody knows. Find that man or men! Maybe jessicafischerqueen knows who, I need to ask her. There's still a lot of things we don't know about Bobby. And the people that know aren't getting any younger.

Count the moves after Bobby lets his Queen get sacked, maybe even before.

Yes I also heard that. I also heard that Carlsen said 20 moves but not with complete certainty. At what point does it get fuzzy for Carlsen? In other words how many moves can he see with complete confidence, or full ply. Also I heard he was talking about pawns and the end game.

Half ply doesn't count that's why it gets fuzzy for Carlsen. You have to think of all the possible variables with each move that you see in advance. As in if I move here what are all of my opponent possible moves.

It took Morphy 20 minutes to think about 14 moves ahead with all the possible variables his opponents could make. His 2 opponents took an hour before they took his Queen sacrifice. Evidently they thought it was safe to take Morphy's Queen. They got a big shock.