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Analysis by Fritz 11: depth 24/42 time 3min 30

1. (2.45): 88...Nc5-d7 89.Rf7-h7 Kc8xc7 90.Bd5-c6 h2-h1Q 91.Bc6xh1 Kc7-d8 92.Kb5-c6 Bd6-e7 93.Bh1-g2 Nd7-e5+ 94.Kc6-d5 Ne5-d7 95.Rh7-h8+ Kd8-c7 96.Rh8-h6 Be7-g5 97.Rh6-h7 Kc7-d8 98.Kd5-d6 Bg5-f4+ 99.Kd6-c6 Nd7-f6 100.Rh7-f7 Bf4-e5 101.Bg2-h3 Nf6-e4 102.Bh3-f5 Ne4-d6 103.Rf7-d7+ 2. (6.56): 88...Bd6xc7 89.Kb5xc5 Kc8-d8 90.Bd5-h1 Bc7-g3 91.Kc5-d5 Bg3-h4 92.Kd5-e6 Kd8-c8 93.Rf7-h7 Bh4-g3 94.Rh7-h3 Bg3-e1 95.Rh3xh2 Kc8-c7 96.Rh2-e2 Be1-b4 97.Re2-b2 Bb4-a5 98.Rb2-b7+ Kc7-d8 99.Rb7-h7 Kd8-c8 100.Bh1-b7+ Kc8-b8 101.Bb7-e4 Ba5-c3 102.Rh7-d7 Kb8-c8 103.Be4-b7+

You probably know that there is a law of physics which states that all of Fischer's wins were brilliancies, all of his losses were near wins, and all of his opponents that drew had winning opportunities. Kind of like 'All matter is neither created nor destroyed, it only changes form', but in chess.

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Who, you ask, is this von Smoluchowski Kac refers to? He was an absolutely brilliant physicist who lived at the beginning of 20th century, but unfortunately, everything he found interesting, Albert Einstein also worked on.

I don't know if Fischer is the greatest player ever, but I do know no one who faced him match play was able to prove otherwise. I also know that each of the World Champions previous to him had been beaten in succession by the previous champion, meaning Spassky beat Petrosian (also Tal), who beat Botvinnik, Who beat Tal, Smyslov and Euwe, who beat Alekhine, who beat Capablanca, who beat Lasker. In short, when Fischer arrived on the scene he was clearly the strongest champion ever.

Could he have beaten Karpov, Kasparov, Kramnik, Topalov or Anand in his prime? I don't know. However, I do know that no one before or since Fischer has dominated the game more in their rise to the World Championship than did Fischer from 1970 to 1972. See http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/707... for this incredible performance record, including two six wins to nothing victories against Taimanov and Larsen in semifinal and quarterfinal candidates matches and a 5 wins to 1 against Petrosian in nine games of the candidates final. No one before or since has so dominated leading up to a Championship match. Spassky did well to keep it as close as he could in 1972.

The result tables for the championship matches are visually striking evidence of Fischer's prowess relative to his competition. I believe you make your point.

Fisher plays a typical positional plan of this line of Alekhine's defence: 1) <fixing a weakness> 11...d5 2)<removing a defender> 13...Bxf3 3)<replacing a knight to an excellent position Nb6-c8-e7-f5>

In his book "Alekhine's defence",Bagirov comments that 13.h3 is inaccurate (since black plans to take on f3 it is a loss of time - 13.b4 is better) and 16.Nb5 is a mistake - but he stops the line after 16...Nf5,saying "Black is better"

In fact when you take a look at the position after 18...axb5 ,you see that white has pawn weaknesses (d4 and a2)and his bishop pair has not clear prospects,since the position is closed.On the other hand,black's pieces are extremely well placed to attack these weak pawns.His only problem is the b5-pawn

So Fisher had an advantage and he went wrong afterwards.But where?

I thought first about 19...b4,but white has to play indeed 20.a4 (if not 20...Ra3 is paralysing)sacrifying a pawn,but getting some counterplay by pushing his b-pawn.

Then I looked at 20...Qh4 (instead of 20...f5?!) and it seemed very promising to me (well I am analyzing without a program and this should be checked)The d4-pawn is attacked.If white plays 21.Rfd1,we double the rooks on the a-file 21...Rfa8.If now 22.Bb3,we could take many times on d4 and answer Rxd4 with ...Rxb3 getting a won ending.And if 22.Bb1 white's pieces are bad placed and we have the possibility to play ...R8a4 at a given moment,winning the b4-pawn

After the last 10 days, its refreshing to see great players who truly love the game still involved. (almost 40 years after the above game was played)

At the time this game was played in April of 1970, Browne is listed as an IM in the chessmaster database. CG says he acheived GM status in 1970, so it must have been later in the year after this game was played.

So, the 21 year old IM from Australia draws Fischer in 100 moves in 1970.