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Donald Byrne vs Robert James Fischer
"The Game of the Century" (game of the day Oct-17-06)
Rosenwald Memorial 1956  ·  Gruenfeld Defense: Three Knights Variation. Hungarian Attack (D92)  ·  0-1


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May-29-09   gerry espiritu: i love your web since its very useful and informative about chess, its need a little improvement in the screen.
Jun-12-09   Whitehat1963: Player of the Day's most significant contribution to chess history.
Jul-25-09   PhilomathBret: To Augalv and dumbgai. There is nothing wrong with considering the players when calling it "Game of the Century". How well it's played is a matter of opinion anyways and there are so many amazing games, it's difficult to choose the best. So if we have 1000 amazing briliancies, why not pick the one that gave recognition to somebody who was later considered the greatest player of all time, when he was still only a child?
Oct-05-09   pinoyofqatar: i cannot view and play it>??? ouch
Oct-05-09   pinoyofqatar: can someone help me to view it... or give any site to view it.. thanks
Nov-03-09   dannygjk: Why is no mention made of 16...Nb5? We can't objectively reject it just because of what we know with hindsight. Maybe 16...Nb5 is considered elsewhere?
Nov-07-09   improperchess: if he's not a chess genius, no one is, capablanca and fischer don't need comments undermining their skills, face it, when your old you need study, the kind they didn't need as younger players, it's sad to see how players these days are rated so highly undeservingly while legends like tal have 26-- ratings :(
Nov-07-09   improperchess: people like habu don't become legends man, capablanca like guys do.
Dec-05-09   udayb: I have always admired this game that I first saw many years ago. It even appeared in Time and Newsweek magazines in 1972 in the lead up to Fischer-Spassky Match 1972.

Yesterday, just out of curiosity, I was checking the 'accuracy' of Fischer's moves in this game with Fritz 11. To my utter surprise, Fischer, who was just 13 then, had played Fritz's first choice all the way from Move 11 to Move 36, taking just one more move than was absolutely required to mate white on Move 41.

Had Fischer been playing half a century later against a Topalov or a Mamedyarov, he would have been accused of cheating!!!

Dec-10-09
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  zanshin: <something revealing happens when you ask them to demonstrate where Byrne could have done better, and why. It's then that it is revealed how little is understood about this game.>

<AnalyzeThis> How far back are we allowed to go?


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<11.Be2> is probably better than <11.Bg5>.

Dec-17-09   Oliphaunt: Great game no doubt but 11.Bg5 doesn't make much sense to me; it has no threat and loses a tempo.

These days the computers find 11...Na4 17...Be6 instantly...

Dec-28-09
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  waustad: <pino>You may be having a problem due to some to the syntax of the comments. Using an older machine, I couldn't read this one but with my 2006 machine (mac) there is no problem. I often have trouble viewing things with my ubunto netbook.
Jan-21-10   skipwallace555: I just received my copy of Bobby's 60 memorable games and I was surprised this was not one of them.
Jan-21-10
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  TheFocus: <skipwallace555> This game appeared in Bobby's first book <Bobby Fischer's Chess Games>. He did not want to repeat it in <My 60 Memorable Games>.
Jan-22-10
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  pawn to QB4: <I just received my copy of Bobby's 60 memorable games> takes me back to what's one of the great moments for any chess fan. Hope you enjoy the book as much as I did.
Feb-05-10   EngineeringProfessor: Anyone see a BIG move for Fisher after 32. Qb8 ?
He actually played b5 ...

Or am I missing something ?

Feb-05-10
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  kellmano: <EngineeringProfessor: Anyone see a BIG move for Fisher after 32. Qb8 ? He actually played b5 ...

Or am I missing something ?
>

I suspect you are missing that black cannot move his bishop due to a discovered check.

Feb-06-10
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  poolbath1: How many games played in the 20th century that are on chessgames.com have more pages of comments? Not sure how to check that stat. That alone might make it the undisputed game of the century.
Feb-06-10   Petrosianic: Probably not. In this case the identity of the winner is probably responsible for more comments than the game itself. I don't think this one is even Fischer's best game much less the game of the century. But it's probably the best game played by a 13 year old.
Feb-06-10   falso contacto: a question: who is the strongest fischer's rival, other than spassky?
Feb-06-10
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  Open Defence: < falso contacto: a question: who is the strongest fischer's rival, other than spassky?> rivals he played ?

Petrosyan, Geller, Tal

rivals he didnt play or didnt play too often

Korchnoi, Karpov....

Feb-06-10   Petrosianic: On the domestic front, Fischer's strongest rivals would be Robert Byrne and Reshevsky.
Feb-06-10   Peter Nemenyi: Korchnoi faced Fischer eight times in formal play, so I wouldn't put him in the category of opponents Bobby didn't play very often--some of those would be Averbakh, Bronstein, Botvinnik, and Polugaevsky, with one draw each against RJF. The Fischer-Korchnoi games just weren't very good, with three of the four decisive contests decided by blunders, so they aren't well remembered by Fischer standards.
Feb-06-10   falso contacto: sure, OD, rivals he played.
I might think that this game is not a challenge for Fischer, or doesn't require top form. Much more this kind of game:
Carlsen vs S Ernst, 2004
That this kind:
Kasparov vs Kramnik, 1994
thank you,
i'll check "inter pares" games.
Feb-06-10   falso contacto: Let me explain myself.
I'm a 1600 player right now. The best in history. So full respect for every GM. But I think I'm not a challenge for a 2400 player. That player shouldn't be concerned about me.
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