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May-11-03
 | | lostemperor: This was one of the nicest wins, that made Bobby Fischer youngest U.S. champion ever. |
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| May-11-03 | | Shadout Mapes: I had to think for a good 5 minutes on move 31.
31...Rxf1+ 32.Rxf1+ Qxd5 (32...Kh8 33.Rxf8#) 33.Rxf8+ Kxf8 34.exd5 and white has a rook+pawn vs. a knight. |
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| May-24-03 | | Kenkaku: 31. Qf1!! Great game, with beautiful playing by Fischer throughout. |
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Jul-24-03
 | | Sneaky: This game is rollicking fun.
In the final position let's take count: Black is down two rooks, a bishop, and a pawn ... against Fischer. Yep, it's safe to resign =) |
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| Jul-24-03 | | fred lennox: Even at this stage of his career Fisher shows one of my favorite qualities of his. Giving his pieces "air". Observe: from move 17 to 36 all the pieces are at least one file or rank away from each other except - Rf1-Kg1 Qe2-Rf1 and for one move only Bd5-Bd4. In each case the pieces do not interfere with each others mobility - beautifu! |
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| Oct-20-03 | | zambiarhodester: I dont understand why the white queen isnt taken.
32. black: Rf1+ white: Rf1 black:Rf1+ (and its checkmate!) |
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| Oct-20-03 | | derbyc: To zambiarhodester: 32. ..Qxc1 (your suggested Rf1+ is impossible because of the Rook on f7) 33. Rf1+ (look at the Bishop) Kh8 (or Kh7) 34. Rxc1 and white is a Rook up. Furthermore the baseline is defended, so black cannot mate by Rf1. The case of 31. ..Rxf1 is covered by Shadout Mapes. |
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| Feb-23-04 | | Benjamin Lau: lost emperor, when you get back, are you going to fix the weird games at the end of your collection "A history of chess?" It looks like you're planning to come up with a place for them, but it also looks like you forgot about them completely. |
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Feb-29-04
| | lostemperor: Done. I did not forget (I see now that chessgames.com has made it easy to put games inbetween others without having to change the number of order of all the other games like before:-)) |
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| Mar-28-04 | | AdrianP: 30... h5! comes very close to refuting 30. Rxf7!! |
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Apr-22-04
 | | tpstar: A fantastic combination, with the star move = 31. Qf1!!, yet Black has substantial resources based on h2 and the weak back rank. Like 30 ... h5 31. Rf5+ Kh7 32. Rxf8?! Qh4 33. h3 (33. g3 Rc1+ 34. Kg2 Qxh2+ 35. Kf3 Ne5+ 36. Ke3 Rc3+ 37. Kd2 Rc2+) Re3 34. Qf1 Re1, or 34. Qc4 Re1+ 35. Rf1 Qf2!. There's no way to check out of it, either: 33. h3 Re3 34. Bg8+ Kh6 35. Qc4 Re1+ 36. Rf1 Qf2! 37. Qe6+ g6. I think White's best is 30 ... h5 31. Rf3+ Kh7 (31 ... Qxd5? 32. Rxf8+ Kxf8 33. Qf1+ Qf7 34. Ra8+ Ke7 35. Ra7+) 32. Rxc3 Qh4 33. Rh3 Nf2+ (33 ... Rf2 34. Rxh4 Rxe2 35. g3) 34. Kg1 Nxh3+ 35. gxh3 Rf6 36. Ra3, or 35 ... Qxh3 36. Ra3! (36 ... Qxa3? 37. Qxh5++) and White wins the endgame. |
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May-15-04
| | Sneaky: Like a lot of us I couldn't really try to solve this one, because it's such a famous game I already knew what was coming. What amazes me is not only 31.Qf1! but also the logical follow up, 32.Qxc1! Here, let me put my queen on an unprotected square, where you can capture it ... with check! A few weeks ago I posted some videos of Fischer from this site http://www.dmv.demon.nl/ I think it's the veyr first video, where this is old footage of young Fischer going over this game on a stand-up diagram, for a small group of chess players; the video shows him playing Qf1!! and all the chessplayers all start to applaud. |
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| May-15-04 | | kevin86: A self-pin on white's queen by fischer;i looked for ♗xf7 instead of the briilian ♖xf7-that's how much i know. |
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| May-15-04 | | iron maiden: I agree with Sneaky that this game was a bit too famous to be a puzzle. |
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| May-15-04 | | numlock31: Whats wrong with:
32....Qxc1+ 33. Rf1 Qxf1# 0-1 ?? |
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| May-15-04 | | acirce: <numlock> 33. Rf1 is check from the bishop on d5.
<iron maiden> I don't think more than a quite small minority of chessgames.com's visitors knew of this game that well. |
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| May-15-04 | | MoonlitKnight: 33.Rf1+ is check. |
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| May-15-04 | | MoonlitKnight: I hadn't seen this game before and had to think for quite a while before finding 31.Qf1. |
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| May-15-04 | | aragorn69: It should be noted that 31.Rf1+?? Kh8 wins for Black. That's the point of 31.Qf1! and, subsequently, of 30.Rxf7!! In other words, the key move would be a frightful mistake without the follow-up... |
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| May-15-04 | | Franz the Stampede: this game is simply amazing... I spent a couple of minutes before understanding that black has not a checkmate to do because Rf1 is check...
it's just incredible... |
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| May-15-04 | | Franz the Stampede: Also, how does this PGN thing works? I downloaded the file and opened with a browser and it's like a txt file... Is there a way too view it just like on the site, with the chessboard, the buttons and stuff?
thanks a lot! |
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| May-15-04 | | rndapology: Wow...this game possesses high beauty, I like the multiple ways to a very clear win for Fischer...the organization of the white peices though is something else, it reminds me of that game Steinitz played as white where he had this rook checking the black king from point blank and it could not be captured do to pins on black queen, the checking paused with white's pecies en prise and a back rank mate threatneded, it was great. The final mate involved several variations, all equally amusing and devastating. Yes, all of white's peices are on wonderful squares and such, but it is like in this game that the variations and what not all reduced to a steady state suddenly. I've read that Fritz and Junior evaluations for decisive master games swing around some median until one particular move when it all breaks down and remains steady. Think of it as chaos returning to a steady state. |
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| May-15-04 | | Calli: "how does this PGN thing works?"
See the Chessgames Help file on the front page. |
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| May-31-04 | | talchess2003: This is perhaps the most beautiful chess game ive seen in a long time... |
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| Jul-03-04 | | smokeonthewater: maybe im missing something: but isnt 31...rxf1+ mate? 32. rxf1 is white's only move and then black just plays rxf1 mate. unless someone sees something i dont..? |
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