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| May-26-09 | | Eyal: <patzer2: The defensive possibility 16...Qc7! is interesting. After 16... Qc7! 17. Qh5 exf4 18. Qh6! fxg3 19. Rf3! Bb7 (19... Nxb3? 20. Nxg3 ) 20. Rxg3+ Qxg3 21. Nxg3 Kh8 = it's roughly equal in an unbalanced position> A better possibility for White in this case seems to be 17.Nh5! (with the threat of Qg4+) recommended by Fischer in his notes to the game, as well as by engine analysis. Fischer analyzes only 17...f5 for Black, with several pretty winning lines: 18.Nhf6+ Kg7 19.Qh5 Bxf6 (19...h6 20.Rf3 Rh8 21.Rg3+ Kf8 22.Qxh6+!; or 20...exf4 21.Rh3 Rh8 22.Ne8+!) 20.Nxf6 h6 (20...Rh8 21.Qg5+ Kf8 22.Qh6+ Ke7 23.Qh4 Kf8 24.Nxh7+ winning an exchange; the blood-thirsty computer prefers 23.Ba4 followed by 24.Rd1) 21.Rf3 Rh8 (21...Kxf6 22.Qh4+ Kg7 23.Rg3+ Kh7 24.Rh3) and here Fischer demonstrates a win by 22.Ne8+, while the computer prefers 22.Rg3+ Kf8 (22...Kxf6 23.Qh4#) 23.Rd1! with the lethal threat 24.Rg8+! But Black can put up better resistance with 17...Kh8! and after 18.Nexf6 has three main options - 18...Bb7 (to counter Qd3 with e4), 18...Ba6 and 18...Qd8. White is better, but there doesn't seem to be a forced win. In principle, Benko's play on the Q-side wasn't such a bad idea as claimed by some people on this page, but this game demonstrates very well that in this kind of sharp Sicilian lines Black can hardly afford inaccuracies against an energetic attacking play by White. Benko obviously didn't appreciate fully the danger of the e5-Ne4 idea, otherwise he would have played <13...Bb7>, or inserted <13...Nxb3> first, instead of b4. Note that after 13...Nxb3 14.axb3 b4, the line 15.e5 dxe5 16.Bxf6 gxf6 17.Nce4 Qd4 18.Qh5 exf4 is ok for Black, since the fantastic resource 19.Nf5 doesn't work - 19...exf5 20.Rxf4 Qxe4 21.Rxe4 fxe4, and there's no more a knight on a5 for the white queen to grab; Black can also play 20...Rd8 without fearing 21.Qxf7+ (which goes to show that the bishop on b3 wasn't completely useless...) But even after 13...b4 14.e5 dxe5 15.Bxf6, Black might have held on by <15...bxc3!> (getting rid of one of White's extremely powerful knights). Fischer gives 16.Ne4 Qb4 17.Qg4 Bxf6 18.Nxf6+ Kh8 19.Qh4 h6 20.Ng4 "with a strong attack", but lengthy analysis by Hubner seems to show that Black is doing ok after 20...cxb2; another option (suggested by Kasparov) in which Black seems to maintain the balance is 17.bxc3 Qxe4 18.Bxe7 Bb7 or 18...Re8. |
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| Mar-20-10 | | The Rocket: Paul Benko is a noob indeed! lol |
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| Mar-20-10 | | The Rocket: Fischers playing style changed dramatically when he developed into a world-class nr 1 player, during his early years you can notice how much more agressive he is, with aloth more pawnstorms and other energetic ideas, but he later became much more positional as white. |
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| Mar-20-10 | | The Rocket: This exellent game however was a pretty forcing attack sequence from white, instead of a matter of "style" |
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| Mar-20-10 | | PeterB: Both Paul Keres and Fischer seemed to be able to beat Benko rather easily in those days. But we musn't forget that Benko, despite this game and others, was no slouch - he had a very strong positional sense and developed anti-King's Indian and the Benko Gambit systems! |
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| Mar-20-10 | | Eisenheim: <PeterB> - it is a en erie strange coincidence that Benko developed the Benko Gambit - what are the odds? This game here was brilliance by BF from start to finish |
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| Mar-20-10 | | black.pr0jekt: Nf6=fail play e6 instead |
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| Mar-20-10 | | ounos: <xrt999: I am blown away by all the posts from "serious" players who are analyzing how/why they got or didnt get the "puzzle" which consists of 18.Qh6, Fischer vs Benko Bled 1959, one of the most well-known>
Ouch. "Most well-known"? Next time, pleeease use "best-known". |
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| Mar-20-10 | | sfm: <ounos: [xrt999... one of the most well-known] Ouch. "Most well-known"? Next time, pleeease use "best-known".>
Objection. Such attacks are way below the belt. :-( |
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| Mar-20-10 | | kevin86: Recently,the tripled pawns were on the winning side. Today,they only show the exposed nature f the king-and thus,are a liability.White will win easily,buing up a queen for a rook-and two isolated pawns. |
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| Mar-20-10 | | ajile: <sfm: <ounos: [xrt999... one of the most well-known] Ouch. "Most well-known"? Next time, pleeease use "best-known".> Objection. Such attacks are way below the belt. :-(> This is a well known grammatical error.
:o) |
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| Mar-20-10 | | WhiteRook48: ouch, that was crushing |
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| Mar-20-10 | | RandomVisitor: After 12.f4:
click for larger view Rybka 3: <d=19>
<[-0.07] 12...b6> 13.Qd3 [+0.00] 12...b5 13.Ng3 Nxb3
[+0.07] 12...h6 13.Bh4 Nc6 |
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| Jun-13-10 | | elohah: In 60MG, after the alternative 16...Qc7, Bobby commences a long line beginning with 17 Nh5!
Yet 17 Qh5! also seems to win, very similar to the game. Also in his note after Black's 17th, in c] 17...Kg7, just 18 Rf3!, Bobby, wins. Yes, this is an outstanding tactical display by Fischer. Just thought I'd pop in a couple of curlicues here.
Carry on. |
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| Jul-28-10 | | tentsewang: Opps!! Getting KO'd by a 13 year old US Champ is really great to see at motion. |
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| Jul-28-10 | | Petrosianic: Fischer was actually 16 when this game was played, and 14 when he first won the title. Normally I wouldn't nitpick... (Okay, I would, so sue me), but I've seen this "13-year old champ" line repeated a couple of times this morning, so we might as well get it right. The idea that Benko was prejudiced against Fischer's age when he lost the game is purely speculative, of course. They'd already met in one US Championship and an interzonal, so Benko should have had no illusions about Fischer's skill. |
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| Aug-29-12 | | TheFocus: This is game 11 in Fischer's <My 60 Memorable Games>. |
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Nov-22-12
 | | plang: <PeterB: Both Paul Keres and Fischer seemed to be able to beat Benko rather easily in those days. > Between 1958 and 1962 Fischer's record against Benko was 5-3 - hardly a mis-match. |
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Nov-24-12
| | plang: 6..Qb6, the Benko Variation, has scored well for Black since its introduction in the late 50s. Fischer's 7 Nde2 is occasionally played as are 7 Nxc6 and 7 Ndb5 but 7 Nb3 is the main line. |
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Nov-25-12
 | | perfidious: This particular Benko invention has the virtue of bypassing the reams of theory needed to face the Velimirovic Attack and gives the game a more positional turn. As John Nunn noted long ago, play will usually proceed in a fashion analogous to the Scheveningen. |
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| Nov-25-12 | | SimonWebbsTiger: On <perfidious>s point, here is a game which the great Yermo used to illustrate attacking themes in the Sicilian in his wonderful book "The Road to Chess Improvement"Note too Karpov-Kasparov, game 24, World Chp. Match 1985!
Igor Ivanov vs Yermolinsky, 1994
I am certain though Benko was just worried about the Sozin, the real Sicilian killer Fischer excelled with until Geller's excellent suggestion for the 1972 match made Fischer switch to the Richter-Rauzer for the remaining games. |
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| Jan-03-13 | | qqdos: Have a look at this entertaining analysis by <kingcrusher>! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf9W... He discovered something new. |
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| Jul-20-13 | | talwnbe4: Now here is a tactical shot that my computer engine has trouble with... Fruit 2.2.1 misses 17. Qh5 ! after 10 minutes of analysing and I'm running a fast computer (Core 2 duo). As for my own brain, I have no comprehension of this position after Qh5, although it just looks strong. |
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| Jul-20-13 | | Nerwal: <Fruit 2.2.1 misses 17. Qh5 ! after 10 minutes of analysing and I'm running a fast computer (Core 2 duo)> This looks like a good test for engines. On this computer Houdini 1.5 assesses 17. ♕h5 as winning after 1:05, Stockfish 3 after 3:50, Rybka 2.2 after slightly more than 4 minutes, and Firebird 1.0 in 50 seconds. |
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Jul-20-13
 | | JointheArmy: <This looks like a good test for engines.> Funny because 17. Qh5! is the most intuitive move for a human in that position. |
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