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| Aug-04-03 | | PVS: Fischer's lone loss in this interzonal. |
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| Aug-23-03 | | Marnoff Mirlony: Isn't it obvious? Fischer lost this one to a mouse slip. |
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| Aug-24-03 | | Sylvester: Maybe this is one of those "irrational" positions that Geller that used get Fischer in. |
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| Sep-16-03 | | mymt: it was bad enough back in the 50s&60s when the RUSSIANS were all analysing his games .NOW the WHOLE WORLD knew what he was going to play.[LUCKLY there were no pc s] he had to try something a little different against STRONG opposition.This could be his last shot at the TITLE. |
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| Sep-16-03 | | ughaibu: "This could be his last shot at the TITLE" Why?? |
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| Sep-16-03 | | tud: Impeccable game from Larsen. 20...g5! is strong. White's attack just fusses. Later on Fischer starts playing calm openings, being surprised too often in risky variants of Sicilian, and waits the endgame, like Capablanca. |
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| Nov-14-04 | | kostich in time: tuds comment is interesting; its also wrong...Fischer used the Sozin very sucessfully against this same Bent larsen in Denver in 1971.
Fischers opening play is little passive for this variation...Velimirovic even called it "criminal"..But Larsens counter-attack is superb.
It won a best game prizefrom the Informant...largely because Fischers play in 1970 was SO good, that ANY victory over him was a'masterpiece".In fact, I would say that Fischer in 1970 and 1971 equaled Alekhine in 1930 and 1931, which Fine (in 1945) called the "best chess seen to date" |
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Jun-27-05
 | | keypusher: When Fischer played the Sozin against Larsen in 1971 he didn't castle queenside. Presumably that is what <tud> meant. |
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| Nov-28-05 | | Koster: When Fischer castled Kside in '71 it was Larsen who went wrong and soon dropped material. Spassky was prepared for that line in 1972 and probably should have won game 4. Fischer played another surprise in game 6, the queen's gambit. |
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| Nov-28-05 | | RookFile: This game shows Larsen's fearsome precision in the endgame around this time. Against a lesser player, Fischer may have escaped with a draw. |
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Nov-28-05
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| Feb-25-06 | | Zaius: 24...a4 sets up a beautiful combination. How can someone find that over the board? Amazing. |
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| Apr-06-06 | | zev22407: If 24)..e5? 25)N-e6 Q-c8 26)R:d6 R-a6
27)Q:g7+! R:g7 28)R:g7+ K-h8 29)R(g):d7 R:d6 30)R:d6 and black is lost! if 30)..Qb7 31)R-d8+ K-h7 32)R-d7+! and N-f8+ forking the king and queen ,but Larsen played first 24)..a4! and now he has the c4 point for the queen. |
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| Jul-19-06 | | greenrook: The move 24 ...a4 was very clever, but also Fischer's planning must be at fault.
To leave the Queen on g4 where it can easily be attacked by the bishop on d7 seems like a bluff that didn't come off.
Larsen probably couldn't believe his luck, but still had to fight hard to convert the endgame. |
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| Oct-15-06 | | MyriadChoices: Fischer played an opening he has never played before. It's a type of Velimirovic attack but the king is on E2 not D2. Fischer never played this before and he never did again. What was his score in the tournament so far? Maybe he felt like he could play something not in his main line for fun/hide deeper weapons. |
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| Oct-16-06 | | RookFile: I'm sure he was in first place at the time of this game. This was a reminder of how strong Larsen was in those days, especially in the endgame. |
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| Jan-01-07 | | whatthefat: This 9th round game was Fischer's only loss of the tournament. Interestingly, his play was also very indifferent in the 7th, 8th and 10th rounds, where he was lucky to emerge with 3 patchy draws. It's interesting to think that even in Fischer's greatest tournament performance, there was a sequence in the middle where he was out of form. See Game Collection: Road to the Championship - Bobby Fischer for all the rounds. |
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| Feb-15-07 | | Brown: Larsen plays solidly, for once, against Fischer. Good equalizing play, and pouncing on his opponents mistake. |
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| Dec-01-07 | | HOTDOG: Velimirovic suggested 12.Nf5!!;see Velimirovic vs V Bukal Sr, 1971 |
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| Jan-02-08 | | Eyal: Fischer didn't do very well with the Velimirovic Attack during his whole career - 3 losses out of 4 games, including one to an obscure player in a simul... (Fischer vs J Rubinstein, 1971) |
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| Jan-02-08 | | Petrosianic: It's very problematic including simul games in such evaluations. For one thing, simul records are extremely incomplete. Who knows how many Velimirovic wins in simuls Fischer might have scored that are in no database? Also, suppose Fischer was 100-5 against the Velimirovic: 100-0 in simuls, and 0-5 against GM's. Would you say then that he did well against it, or that he did badly? Clearly the games against GM's would then count a lot more than the others. |
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| Jan-02-08 | | Eyal: I know all that - I wasn't being THAT serious when I mentioned the simul included in this database. Still, I find there's something suggestive about it because I'm sure Fischer lost very few simul games, as well as because of some similarities between that game and the present one. |
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| Jan-02-08 | | Eyal: Speaking of the present game, 11...Nd7 was a novelty by Larsen at the time - without waiting to be chased away, Black's knight is immediately redeployed to c5. Fischer, in his turn, didn't respond so well - 12.h4 may be inaccurate, and 14.f3 to defend e4 is definitely too slow in this type of position (White needn't be afraid of 14.h5 b4 15.Na4 Nxe4 16.Qc4 Nc5 17.Nxc6 Qxc6 18.Nxc5 dxc5 19.g6). Larsen's defensive idea of 20...g5 followed by 22...h6 was brilliant, and as several people already noted above, he played very accurately throughout. After 38.e5 Black's win seems pretty much forced - perhaps 38.Rh1 would have still given Fischer some chances to fight for a draw. |
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| Jun-28-08 | | TheKingOfSpades: Fischer losing with the Sicilian Sozin! This loss should not be attributed to his weaknesses but to Larsen's solid counterattacking. Fun to watch. |
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| Mar-31-09 | | Thickasabrick31: Why didn't Fischer play 26. Nf5 ? |
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