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| Dec-07-05 | | Jim Bartle: It may have been nice to see the game continue to the coming rook sacrifice, but there's also something elegant about a game won when black moves his queen for the very first time--to d7! |
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| Dec-18-05 | | MaxxLange: I saw Robert Byrne at the World Open about 5 years ago, so, at that time he was still playing. He's in his 80s I think. |
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| Jan-30-06 | | DanielBryant: He's still in his late 70s, and he writes a monthly column for Chess Life. |
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Jan-30-06
 | | plang: And a weekly column for the NY Times.
Column is nowhere near as good as it used to be; you can tell he puts less effort into it. |
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| Jan-31-06 | | ISeeChessPeople: Is the game where Byrne remarked: "Fischer is a Caissa God dropped from the sky"?. Fischer produced a combination out of nowhere in what looked like a very balanced position. |
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| Feb-05-06 | | McCool: Wow! Fischer is just too good for Dr Byrne. |
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| Feb-05-06 | | Mating Net: It's been mentioned many times before, but ...18Nxg2! is really a super sharp move. Black passes up the Rook to inflict a mortal blow to the White King's defenses by removing the key defender, the g2 Bishop. This choice has been played before, notably in Nimzowitsch vs Samisch, 1929 when Nimzowitsch passed on a Rook and snapped of a fianchettoed Bishop as well. |
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| Feb-20-06 | | Marvol: <MrSifter: d4 gives an unexploitable advantage for white : more space and seemingly better placement of the pieces, yet it is very difficult to make progress.
e4 is naturally sharper and offers White better chances to get a "real" advantage.> Do you really believe this or are you just rehashing Fischer's (faulty) reasoning? Many world champions seem to disagree with you, most notably Capablanca and Kasparov. Not the least talented nor lacking insight. I wonder how many people are led to believe that Fischer was right and actually do think 1.e4 is better than 1.d4...
As to 'sharper' and 'more chance for real advantage' I need mention only one word: PETROFF. |
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| Feb-21-06 | | netlava: 1. d4 has to deal with Queen's Indian though. |
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| Feb-22-06 | | DeepBlade: I dont understand 18.Nxg2. Nxd1 looks more obvious to me. |
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| Feb-22-06 | | micartouse: <Nxd1 looks more obvious to me.> In that case, Black would have probably won anyway but it would have taken a lot longer. Nxg2 is one of the hottest moves of the game, and it's only after the unplayed combo that it all clicks. If you had to sum up the game in two words, it's "light squares". After 7. e3, Bobby was already thinking in terms of light square weaknesses. Then, moves like Ba6 and Nd3 all start to make sense. At higher levels, they get into subtle stuff like color weaknesses. But Fischer kind of took it to a higher level here to say the least, backing it up with flawless tactics. |
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| Feb-22-06 | | RookFile: Excuse me, but if black had played
18... Nxd1, it would be white who would have a clear advantage, bordering on winning. The black d pawn will fall at white's convience, and white will be left with two pieces against rook and pawn. With
so many pieces on the board, this situation almost always favors the two pieces.Byrne would have been overjoyed had Fischer played 18.... Nxd1. |
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| Feb-23-06 | | DeepBlade: Well Fisher really DID crush the opponents mind, with 18. ...Nxg2 |
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| Mar-06-06 | | MrMojoRisin: The D Byrne game against Fischer is a tad bit overrated - don't get me wrong, it is certainly a great great game, but "the game of the century" I think is a bit of an exaggeration. However, this game against R Byrne is definitely worthy of all the praise it gets! Poor Robert, it seemed very natural to make the move Rfd1, as it allows that Rook to attack the d-pawn and the other Rook to occupy the open c-file. Only someone like Fischer would have been able to see the stunning possible refutation to that move. My favorite Fischer game. |
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| Apr-14-06 | | IMDONE4: Typical Fischer, sacrificing an entire piece for the initiative and a huge attack. I would say Tal and Fischer have more in similar than meets the eye. |
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| Jul-14-06 | | MrMelad: This game reminds me of ->
Timman vs Kasparov, 1991
Both have Nxf2 as a key move.
Am I the only one that feel sorry that Fischer and Kasparov never played? They lived on quite the same time period, Kasparov defeated all of Fischer's generation, it was simply logical that they would have a world championship match. I think both are to be blaimed for this, and I think the electric chair is good punishment... |
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| Jul-17-06 | | nolanryan: I agree, the electric chair |
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Jul-17-06
 | | LIFE Master AJ: The main line is 22.Qf2, Qh3+; 23.Kg1, and now the astounding 23...Re1+!!; 24.RxR/e1, (taking with the Queen allows mate on g2). Now 24...BxN/d4! leads to mate, the most humorous variation being 25.Re3, BxR/e3; 26.Re1, Qg2#. Strangely, we just went over this game at the club, yesterday. (Sunday.) Several friends and I are working our way through Schiller's book on Fischer's games. We play one or two games every week. (Although lately, we have been busy going over GM games from recent events, this was the first Sunday in several weeks when we actually got to go over one Fischer game.) |
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| Jul-17-06 | | CapablancaFan: I thought I had read somewhere that Fischer was upset that Byrne resigned at move 22. Does anyone know anything about that? |
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Jul-17-06
| | LIFE Master AJ: No, I am pretty sure that the game score here is correct, Fischer played 21...Qd7, and Byrne resigned. |
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Jul-17-06
| | LIFE Master AJ: I have annotated this game on my website, (http://www.lifemasteraj.com/old_af-...). |
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| Jul-17-06 | | CapablancaFan: <LIFE Master AJ> Oh, I wasn't questioning the score, just trying to find out about Fischer's reaction when Bryne resigned. |
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Jul-17-06
| | LIFE Master AJ: <CapablancaFan> I apologize, I did not read your post carefully. Fischer WAS upset at Byrne's resignation ... he wanted his brilliancy recorded in moves actually played. The other interesting thing is that most of the players thought Byrne had WON this game ... in fact, the newspaper in North Florida, (Jacksonville) actually carried the story that Byrne had indeed won the game. (They later ran a correction.) |
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| Jul-17-06 | | CapablancaFan: <LIFE Master AJ> Just checked out your site and the annotations for this game. Very nicely done. |
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Jul-18-06
| | LIFE Master AJ: <CapablancaFan> Thank you sir, you are gracious and too kind. (However, I appreciate the good words.) |
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