After reading this brief bit:

<And Wee Willykins kissed and huggled the hoppity pot and promised....never to be an old grumpy-wumpkins again.>

followed by JKR's ccmment:
<Mrs. Bloxam's tale has met the same response from generations of Wizarding chldren: uncontrollable retching, followed by an immediate demand to have the book taken from them and mashed into pulp.>

1. D Byrne vs Fischer, 1956 Starting with this game is almost inevitable...…the first big highlight of Fischer's career. It might be a bit exaggerated to call it "The Game of the Century", but it's certainly sensational for a 13 year-old and a wonderful game by any standard. An early example of Fischer's mastery in handling KID/Grunfeld setups, as he refutes with amazing efficiency Byrne's dubious 11.Bg5 (11...Na4!! 13...Nxe4! 14...Qb6! 15...Nxc3! 17...Be6!!).

2. Fischer vs J Sherwin, 1957 From Fischer's first US Championship (which he won, like all the other seven US Championships in which he participated), featuring a stunningly beautiful winning combination (31.Qf1!!).

3. Fischer vs Larsen, 1958 From the Portoroz Interzonal, where the 15 year-old finished 5-6th, qualifying for the Candidates' Tournament. Featuring Fischer the Dragon Slayer - <Now I felt the game was in the bag if I didn't botch it. I'd won dozens of skittles games in analogous positions and had it down to a science: pry open the h-file, sac, sac ... mate!> (For another demonstration of this science, see Fischer vs Gligoric, 1959).

4. Fischer vs Geller, 1961 Fischer had a poor overall score against Geller, but this first encounter between them was an absolute crush. As someone who played a relatively narrow and predictable opening repertoire during most of his career, Fischer had to face over-the-board many opening innovations prepared by his opponents beforehand, and here he completely refutes Geller's 7...Qf6?! and wins in 22 moves.

5. Fischer vs Portisch, 1962 From the Stockholm Interzonal, the first big international triumph of Fischer's career. An example of his endgame mastery - one of the most instructive rook endgames ever played.

6. Fischer vs Julio Bolbochan, 1962 Another game from the Interzonal - which won the first brilliancy prize. This is one of several games where Fischer, on the White side of an Open Sicilian, manages to achieve a good knight (on d5) vs. bad bishop (on e7) middlegame, and he wins it in style.

7. Fischer vs Keres, 1962 Nearly all the games played between those two are great, and this is perhaps the most impressive of Fischer's 4 wins - a Ruy Lopez classic.

8. Fischer vs Najdorf, 1962 Like no. 6, a demolition of the opponent with the Najdorf's "deferred Keres attack" (6.h3), and this time of Najdorf himself... A Morphy-style attack against the black king, with the <Fischop> on c4 controlling the board.

9. R Byrne vs Fischer, 1963 Another splendid Grunfeld game against another Byrne... from the US championship which Fischer won with an 11-0 score. Byrne didn't see what was coming until very near the end, and according to the story neither did the GM commentator - who said that Fischer was lost, and thought at first that it was he who resigned.

10. Portisch vs Fischer, 1966 Once again, Portisch finds himself at the receiving end of a strategic masterpiece by Fischer. <Portisch, like Fischer, was always very well-prepared in his openings, but wasn't as good at improvisation. That cost him, as the non-standard position that arose from Fischer's Nimzo-Indian led to a situation where Portisch followed the "rules" and got into trouble> (Dennis Monokroussos); <It is staggering to what extent Fischer surpassed one of the world's leading grandmasters in depth of evaluation of a non-standard position> (Kasparov).

11. Fischer vs Myagmarsuren, 1967 When faced with e6 or c6 in response to his 1.e4, Fischer occasionally employed the King's Indian Attack setup, with good results - especially against relatively weak opponents with strange names.

12. Fischer vs Stein, 1967 Fischer wins an incredibly hard-fought and complex game against one of the world's best (and most luckless) players at the time; the last game in "My 60 Memorable Games", and a fitting coda to that collection.

14. Fischer vs Unzicker, 1970 A game combining strategic foresight with terrific technique (note the smooth transition from middlegame to endgame), and like nos. 4, 7 &12 demonstrates Fischer's mastery of the Ruy Lopez. It belongs to a series of games in which Fischer revived the supposedly harmless exchange variation (4.Bxc6 - see also Fischer vs Portisch, 1966 and Fischer vs Gligoric, 1966), and here he revives the f5 idea from Lasker vs Capablanca, 1914 as well.

15. Fischer vs Ulf Andersson, 1970 During 1970, Fischer experimented several times with 1.b3. In this exhibition game against the rising 19 year-old Swedish talent, he plays a Hedgehog with colors reversed, before that system really existed, and pretty much invents an attacking idea that's now considered a typical plan (13.Kh1[!!] followed by Rg1, g4, Ne4, g5 etc. - see, for example, Taimanov vs Yusupov, 1982).

16. Fischer vs Taimanov, 1971 (4th game of the match) All the games from the 6-0 rout are great, but this one seems the most perfect - where Fischer's play is perhaps most reminiscent of Capablanca's "simple" style at its best. An exemplary Bishop vs. Knight endgame.

17. Fischer vs Larsen, 1971 (1st game of the match) A great fight, with Fischer winning against the supposedly-most-problematic-for-him Winawer, after which the remaining five games in the second 6-0 rout were much easier.

[Larsen vs Fischer, 1971, the 4th game of the match, is also great - a classic KID attack conducted by Fischer - but much more one-sided]

18. Fischer vs Petrosian, 1971 (7th game of the match) <My God, he plays so simply!> (Suetin).

19. Fischer vs Spassky, 1972 (6th game of the match) Possibly the most beautiful game of the WC match. Like nos. 16 & 18, Fischer gains an advantage out of the opening and turns it into a win with what seems like effortless ease, not allowing his opponent any shred of counterplay. Also notable is the flexibility with which he switches the focus of attention - starting operations on the queenside, turning to the center, and finishing on the kingside. To top it all, this was Fischer's first game in his career on the White side of a Queen's Gambit, while Spassky employed the Tartakower regularly as a favorite defense.

20. Spassky vs Fischer, 1972 (13th game of the match) Not such a flawless game by Fischer as the previous one, but a terrific - and highly resourceful - struggle which demonstrates his uncompromising will to win if he saw any conceivable chance for it, even as Black.

<"Tal played well," said Bobby

"If I had lost," Tal retorted, "Bobby would have said I played brilliantly..."

[...]

The Olympiad had ended. At the closing ceremony Tal and Fischer were again the centre of attention. Bobby and I were sitting at the same table; he was very cheerful and, turning to me, he said: "Did you hear me sing in Bled? If I hadn't become a grandmaster, I would probably have been a singer. Smyslov himself found me talented as a singer, and he understands something about it. But I know something else," Bobby went on, "wait till I call Tal."

When Tal came up to our table, Bobby said to him: "Let me tell you your chess fortune." He took Tal's palm and slowly began predicting. "I see that you're a very talented chess player..." Many grandmasters had gathered at our table. Everyone was listening and watching. Cameramen began taking pictures... "Your palm even shows that you play sharply, in a combinative style..."

Tal was, of course, laughing. There was also a smile on the face of William Lombardy, who was standing next to him. Meanwhile the grinning Bobby continued: "But I see that in the near future you will lose the title of world champion to a young American grandmaster..." Tal promptly turned to Lombardy and, shaking his hand, said: "Bravo, Billy! So it's you who is destined to succeed me at my post!">

[Regarding Fischer's singing, the section on Bled 1961 brings the following quote from Petrosian: <The American champion now has a new interest - he sings. In the evenings at the casino Fischer would sing modern pop songs accompanied by a jazz band. The grandmaster has a high opinion of his voice, an opinion shared by very few in his audience>]

Stellwagen - Movsesian 1/2 one million
Carlsen - Radjabov 1/2 zero
Aronian - Wang Yue 1/2 one hundred
Ivanchuk - Smeets 1/2 six hundred
Karjakin - Morozevich 1/2 a thousand
Van Wely - Dominguez 1-0 two million
Kamsky - Adams 1/2 eight hundred
>

<Ragh> Yes, it is.

<OD> just played 13...Kf8 and now this game is getting <really> interesting!

7. BOBBY FISCHER- ANALYSIS AND APPRAISAL OF MY FAVORITE 20 GAMES

by Eyal Segal

(<Eyal Segal> is this year's winner of the <CAISSAR AWARD> for <Best Analyst>, so be sure to click on all of the games links in this article in order to see Eyal's analysis of interesting points and highlights in each of the 20 Fischer brilliancies in this collection)

Yeah, I'm still in America - think I will be here for a few more years. I'm gonna come back to Korea for my summer vacation though. You? any plan to go back to Canada?

hahaha