Svetozar Gligoric vs Robert James Fischer (1970)

Svetozar Gligoric vs Robert James Fischer
Siegen ol final 1970 · King's Indian Defense: Orthodox Variation. Positional Defense Closed Line (E94) · 0-1

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Given 15 times; par: 126 [what's this?]

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Aug-16-03		Marnoff Mirlony: 43...Rxh5! I love that move.

Nov-17-05		GBKnight: Great game by Fischer. Reminiscent of Topalov at San Luis this year.

Jul-10-09		OneArmedScissor: <...was played by Fischer and is obviously a very critical variation. However, it is rarely seen as most Black players deem it to be unnecessarily risky. It is already unclear where White should put his king.>

Feb-02-10		zev22407: 17)K-h1 was a mistake better was K-h2 and white is better.

Jan-27-11		Pygeum Lycopene: is this one of his memorable 60 games?

Jan-27-11		Agent Bouncy: Yes, but it's not in his book.

Jan-27-11		Pygeum Lycopene: It Looks to me the critical error was 41.Ng3 allowing ...c4 which opened the b-file and unleashed fischer's razor sharp dynamics. Its easy to see what white was thinking also, Ng3 unpins the h1 rook.

Jan-28-11		zev22407: To Pygeum Lycopene Gligoric gave ? to his move 41)Ng3 . He suggested 41)R-h2! with the idea N-g3. He also gave 43)N-f1? allowing Rxh5!

Jan-28-11		HeMateMe: Stellar endgame play. Fischer had said that he thinks about 15 moves ahead, when studying candidate moves. I guess he had the exchange sac worked out to a won endgame.

May-08-11		perfidious: This game may well have gone differently, had Gligoric repeated his 17th move he played at the beginning of the year: Gligoric vs K Langeweg, 1970. Gligo avoided this through fear of an improvement, and was shocked to learn that Fischer had not seen the game above!

Oct-15-12		drunknite: 52 Re8 would offer a lot more resistance but it still difficult to save. Does anyone have experience with R/B vs R/R w/ pawns? I am trying to get some insights into this sort of endgame. The crap pc comes up with this line so far but not sure if this holds.... 52. Re8 g4 53. Re1 Rxc4 54. Rf1+ Ke5 55. Ra8 Rc2 56. Rg8 f5 57. Re8+ Kd6 58. Rg8 Ke5 59. Re8+ Kd6 60. Rd8+ Ke6 61. Re1+ Kf7 62. Rde8 Rxa2 63. R1e6 Bf6 64. Re1 f4

Oct-15-12		Oldisgold: Had Bobby played only 5 more years after being world champion, chess world would have been blessed...

Oct-16-12		drunknite: Seeing "blessed" and "Bobby Fischer" in the same sentence is a bit odd.

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