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| May-10-03 | | Shadout Mapes: Aww, did poor black lose a pawn or two?
(I know, I guess 19...Rg8 20.Qc6+ is pretty decisive, but I hate it when someone resigns in a position which is still rather unclear) |
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| May-10-03 | | Calli: white picks up a whole rook,i.e., 19...Rg8 20.Qe5+ and Qxb8 |
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| Jun-22-03 | | r3sp3ct: 19. ... Bg7 only loses a bishop and a pawn |
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| Jun-22-03 | | drukenknight: at the begininng, white is up by a pawn so he goes for exchanges and black does not really respond w/ an attack. See that desperado stuff w/ 16...Nc5? he could have started that desperado stuff earlier with 13...Ng4. That comes w/ a check, does that work? |
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| Jun-22-03 | | Benjamin Lau: On a random note, the King's Indian Attack used to be Fischer's favorite opening. Later on, he felt that while it was a useful enough weapon, he needed an opening that gave white more winning chances. Although the opening thus soon fell out of favor for Fischer as he upped his level of play, we see him use the system on a whim occasionally against various black setups because the KIA is so flexible. |
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| Oct-21-03 | | MoeskoIsland: Benjamin Lau is right. I think Fischer was (is) a great expert in the KIA, for example his wonderful game against Miagmassuren is legendary. |
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| Oct-21-03 | | Brian Watson: How can something be "pretty decisive" and "rather unclear"? 19..Bg7 loses a bishop and a rook.
I agree 13..Ng4 14.Nf5 Nxf3 15.Nxf3, giving up a doubled pawn, must be superior to 13..g6. Or how about 13..f4? |
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| Oct-21-03 | | Shadout Mapes: Look, i made a stupid mistake and posted a dumb comment, we all do it, don't rub it in my face. |
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| Oct-22-03 | | azi: Fischer's play is mesmerizing. D3 in the KIA is so slow and steady that its hard to anticipate the surgical attack that Fischer creates. Without any exchanges untill move 13 he has the Black Monarch sited and buried in his bunker from the onset. Also I marvel at the way he gains time by ignoring Black's threats on the Queenside as he shuts Black down. Black's rook move that abandons the Black King is a clunker. A great Bobby game. |
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| Oct-22-03 | | Brian Watson: Shadout Mapes: sorry my bad |
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| Aug-09-04 | | xiaolin: wow <shadow mapes> chill he was correct and only saying . you dont have to blow a fuse |
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| Aug-09-04 | | Whitehat1963: Young Fischer plays the opening of the day. |
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| Aug-28-04 | | wall: 14...Rb8 may not be the best. Perhaps 14...bxc4 instead. Instead of the game move 16...Nc5, maybe 16...Qd7. |
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| May-23-06 | | notyetagm: Fischer plays a very nice <DECOY> into a pawn fork with 15 ♘xc6! ♕xc6 16 cxd5. |
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Jun-02-06
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<14...Rb8 may not be the best. Perhaps 14...bxc4 instead.> Maybe a little better, but after 14...bxc4 15. bxc4 Nc5 16. Qc2, etc. it doesn't look like Black can hold together the weakened pawns for much longer. <Instead of the game move 16...Nc5, maybe 16...Qd7.> White has 16...Qd7 17. Qc3, and it looks like White will win the piece back, be at least a pawn ahead, and have a very strong attack on Black's king stranded in the center. |
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| Jul-02-07 | | Yeager: <r3sp3ct> <19. ... Bg7 only loses a bishop and a pawn> wrong <Brian Watson> <19..Bg7 loses a bishop and a rook.> wrong 19..Bg7 loses a bishop, nothing more.
19..Bg7 20.Qxg7 Qf8 21.Qe5+ Kd7
Now he was correct in resigning, but just wanted to point out, he does not have to lose a rook nor a bishop and rook nor a bishop and pawn. |
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| Jan-31-09 | | Travis Bickle: 19 moves! Short work for The Maestro!! |
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| Mar-19-09 | | mrriddler: Wow, Black continuations suck.
19…Bg7 20.Qxg7, Ke7 21.Qe5+,Kd7 22.Rac1, (pretty crushing)Qb6 23.Rc6,Qb7 24.Rd6+ (20… Kd7 21.Qxf7, Qe7 22.Qxg6 Just as bad as black is now down 7 points - bishop+4pawns) |
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| Jul-16-09 | | TheFocus: Opponent's name is Peter. This was the first game of Bobby's to be published, in both Chess Review and in Chess Life. |
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| Sep-29-09 | | jerseybob: 8..b5? is an anti-positional clunker from which black never really recovers (the next pawn over, 8..a5, makes more sense to me), but later on 13..Nd4 might've been better than 13..g6. |
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| Dec-06-10 | | KingG: As <jerseybob> said, 8...b5 was just a ridiculous move that you wouldn't expect to see even in a blitz game among decent players. I wonder how strong Lapiken was? |
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| Dec-06-10 | | TheFocus: In this game, Bobby took only 10 minutes, while Lapiken used an hour and 20 minutes. |
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| Dec-06-10 | | RandomVisitor: Peter Lapiken (1905-1983) by IM John Donaldson
Older Mechanics’ members and those that played in US Opens in the 1950s and 60s will remember Dr. Peter Lapiken, the strongest player ever to live in Montana. Perhaps best known for his performance at the US open in Long Beach in 1955 where he narrowly missed beating Sammy Reshevsky (it ended in a draw) and also drew with the event’s winner GM Nicholas Rossolimo, Lapiken was a many of many talents. Fluent in Russian, Chinese, French and English Lapiken received a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in Russian studies. A master at bridge as well as chess, Lapiken was also a concert level classical violinist who knew an amazing number of scores by heart. Often at social occasions Lapiken was the life of the party having in his memory many poems, witty lyrics, etc
Born in Riga the son of a Russian Orthodox priest, Lapiken’s family moved East around 1916, eventually settling in Harbin. He lived in this refuge for White Russians until 1935 when the Japanese invaded. He then moved to Shanghai before coming to the United States in 1939. Based in Seattle for a short while he managed to find time to play in the Washington State Championship. Soon after he went south to begin his studies at UC Berkeley and finished third in the 1940 Mechanics’ Institute Championship. During the Second World War he served in the US military in intelligence and afterwards taught foreign languages to armed forces personnel. Lapiken returned to California in the early 1950s and finished his PhD. He was on the faculty of USCA for several years before taking a position at the University of Montana which he held until his retirement. The last ten years of his life were spent in San Francisco and he would often drop in at the Mechanics’ Chess Room. |
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| Dec-07-10 | | KingG: <Random Visitor> Thanks for that. He sounds like an interesting guy. It's a bit strange that this is the only game of his in the database. |
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| Apr-16-11 | | andrewjsacks: Puzzle for earlier in the week. |
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sac: 15.Nxc6