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| Jul-15-06 |
| Gouki: hmmm, I see.
thanks for the info rookfile. |
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| Jul-15-06 |
| harcee sarmiento: good game. morhpy style. |
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| Jul-15-06 |
| RookFile: Well, Morphy didn't play 1. b3, etc.
but with the black pieces, a typical Morphy sequence was indeed ... Kh8, ....Rg8, and ....g5. |
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| Apr-08-08 |
| jovack: white hedgehog! hehe |
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| Apr-27-08 |
| ruelas007: can anyone explain the pun? |
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| Apr-27-08 |
| Peter Nemenyi: <Shadow812: it is almost hard to believe that Fischer in 1970 and approaching the height of his powers missed this line of play.> Not really. Fischer became less prone to sacrifice as his career advanced, and in his prime he looked for straightforward technical means of concluding won games, not flashy tactics. Clearly his Soviet opponents thought this made him more formidable; Kasparov's book on Bobby is full of quotes to the effect that defending an even slightly inferior technical position against him was hopeless--"he plays like a machine", and so forth. |
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| Apr-27-08 |
| yell0wd0g: <Phoenix: I've always liked this game. If you haven't seen it before, I suggest you play it up to 12...Be6 and try to guess White's move.> I remember having studied this game as an example of the power of the rook on a closed file, but I still couldn't remember the move. Does anybody out there play this opening anymore? What caused R. J. Fischer to play what looks like an exotic opening? |
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| Apr-27-08 |
| kozo: <yell0wd0g>if i remember correctly, yusupov used the Rg1 g4 strategy as black (this is a reversed stonewall), and cited this game as his inspiration in one of his books with dvoretzky. |
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Apr-27-08
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| whiteshark: <ruelas007: can anyone explain the pun?> check this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They'l... |
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| Apr-27-08 |
| Tomlinsky: <yell0wd0g: Does anybody out there play this opening anymore? What caused R. J. Fischer to play what looks like an exotic opening?> Most players seem to prefer entering via 1.Nf4, the Nimzo method to prevent an immediate e5, which differentiates it from Larsen's 1.b3. There are arguments for actually allowing Black to get e5 in if he wants . Generally, the setup isn't that exotic really and transposes into English with b3 (A12) systems. Anyone studying the English needs to incorporate these as well as Reti ideas. The English is a transpositional delight. |
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Apr-27-08
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| Strongest Force: We were just discussing the hedgehog sicilian for white in the Nakamura forum. Nakamura plays the off-shoot hippo, exclusively when he plays one-minute games. The hippo/hedgehog system might not be good for slow classical chess but it is perfect for the fastest blitz time-controls. |
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| Apr-27-08 |
| xKinGKooLx: I've never seen Fischer play like this. Didn't he start with 1. e4 most of the time? Anyway, it's a good game. |
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| Apr-27-08 |
| xrt999: wow, everyone is so enamored with Fischer dispensing with a 19 year old IM. How shocking. |
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Apr-27-08
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| Albertan: Just a note to clarify the event that this game was held at. According to chessbase this game was played at the 1970 Siegun Olympiad. Interesting information concerning this Olympiad can be read at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_C.... Bobby Fischer was edged out of top prize for board one by Boris Spassky (79.17%) to Fischer's performance of 76.9%. Fischer's only loss in this Olympiad was his famous game with Spassky:Spassky vs Fischer, 1970 |
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Apr-27-08
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| whiteshark: Quote from a review by John Donaldson on 'My Great Predecessors Part 4': "Bobby gets the lion’s share of the book, close to 300 pages. It’s hard to come up with major new evaluations of Fischer’s games after they have been so carefully examined, especially by Mark Dvoretsky and Robert Huebner who are quoted extensively. Much is made of Fischer’s love of the old-timers, but curiously in game 83, <the exhibition game Fischer-Andersson, Siegen 1970>, the idea of Kh1, Rg1, g4 is praised (G.K – Fischer’s rare independent opening/middlegame invention!) while an earlier Fischer game versus Soruco (Havana 1966) is given as the origin for the idea. Andrew Soltis, writing in the introduction to MORPHY CHESS MASTERPIECES (Macmillian 1974) points out Bobby almost certainly was influenced by the game Paulsen-Morphy, New York 1857, where Black played ...Kh8, ...Rg8 and ...g5. The pawn structure is different but the similarity is there. Incidentally Morphy and Paulsen were playing each other blindfold and Morphy was playing other blindfold games at the same time. Who says the old-timers didn’t know a thing or two about positional chess! " http://www.jeremysilman.com/book_re... |
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Apr-27-08
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| Ron: The Paulsen-Morphy game mentioned by <whiteshark> is probably this: Paulsen vs Morphy, 1857
Fischer (and Kasparov) were interested in the chess ideas of others; perhaps that is one of the reasons why they were world champions. |
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Apr-28-08
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| whiteshark: Thanks <Ron>! Once you realized such a strong pattern you will always watch out for more examples. :D |
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Apr-28-08
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| kevin86: No wonder black resigned-Fischer was up the exchange and a pawn! |
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| May-05-08 |
| ruelas007: <whiteshark> Oh rofl! |
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| Aug-26-08 |
| Slurpeeman: I found another manuscript of Fischer - Andersson on Mychess.com (tactics 1 = > #7). Which one is right? http://www.mychess.com/tactics/tact... |
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| Sep-23-08 |
| Tripler: Fischer flicked out 1.b3 against three young players: Andersson, Tukmakov and Mecking. The Mecking game transposed to a Bird's. He won them all. Maybe he just felt like a day off from mainline theory; more likely he just wanted to get these young players out of the book so they had to think for themselves. |
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| Jan-26-09 |
| UnsoundHero: ,There are a couple of reasons why Fischer played 34 Be5 rather than the flashy 34 Rxf5 & Rg7 and then sacrificing the queen: * There's always the possibility of a mis-calculation. Fischer would be down a queen for a piece if black had a miracle defense. It's true that this would be extremely rare in Fischer's case, but he reasoned, correctly, that he didn't have to take this chance. *Fischer himself admitted that he liked to "see his opponents squirm". It's almost as if he wanted to win the game as slowly as possible. I wonder if Anderrson actually squirmed after 34 Be5. Here he was, down one exchange, being threatened with another. Fischer knew that he would eventually win after 34 Be5 without risk. |
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Aug-05-09
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| birthtimes: 34. Rxf5 gxf5 35. Rg7 Rd1+ 36. Kg2 Nf4+ 37. Qxf4 Qd5+ 38. Kh3 Rd4 39. Bxd4 Qe6 40. f7 Qxf7 41. Rxf7+ Kg8 42. Qxf5 a4 43. Rf8# |
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Aug-05-09
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| birthtimes: 34. Rxf5 gxf5 35. Qb5 Rd8 36. Qxf5 Re8 holds out longer than 36...Nf8 (much more than 7 moves). |
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| Aug-05-09 |
| shalgo: <if i remember correctly, yusupov used the Rg1 g4 strategy as black> Here is the game, analyzed (as you mention) in Dvoretsky and Yusupov's "Positional Play." Taimanov vs Yusupov, 1982 |
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