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| Oct-24-07 | | thesonicvision: http://youtube.com/watch?v=eIdDt4qz... |
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| Nov-04-07 | | snowmobile: I am starting to feel a bit lonely here....Am I the only person on this world to think this combination is pretty straightforward? Surely it is very elegant, a very beautiful game. But "ultra-brilliant" or "One of the best games ever"?? My Fide-rating is  2200 and I can imagine that, say, a 1600 player is very impressed by these moves, "I could never play like that". But to hear this out of the mouth of grandmasters seems really strange to me.. A move like Nxg2 is so obvious in that position, I can imagine a white player being focussed on Nxd1 and forgetting it, but I think there is no living Grandmaster today who wouldnt play Nxg2 in that position with the black pieces when you are looking for opportunities. Of course black had to foresee this possibility when playing Nxf2. But even though the combination is deep, white play is practically forced, also black hardly has any other possibilities for continuing the attack after Nxf2: The tree of variations isn't very wide. OF course the closing combination Qf2 Qh3 Kg1 Re1!!+ is very beautiful, but if you have done enough tactical training, something an experienced player would spot in a few seconds. I'm really surprised that 2 GMs thought white had won in 1963, maybe the tactical abilities of Grandmasters were less in those days.. Don't get me wrong this is a very beautiful game, a piece of art maybe, but I get a bit annoyed about people calling it an example of Fischer's enormous strength (now the Russians must have worried) or incredible imagination, just because two weak Grandmasters didn't see Nxg2 and later Re1 coming |
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Nov-05-07
 | | kingscrusher: I thought this was a great game. Fischer was starting to warm up with this 3rd win in a row in his 11-0 sweep of the 1963 US Championship. I have done a video annotation of this game here:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMN9...
I think part of the strength of this game, was from a position of near symmetry to have the guts to play for e5 accepting an isolated d pawn. It was a little risk taking with big rewards attached. If Byrne had moves his 'a' rook instead of his 'f' rook, it would have been a different story to the amazing one this game has. |
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| Nov-05-07 | | pawn to QB4: The third of yours I've tried. Great stuff, keep 'em coming. |
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| Dec-07-07 | | Halfpricemidge: <This game is... a wonderful reminder of how deep some of Fischer's combos were.> Touche' ! |
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| Dec-07-07 | | Petrosianic: Well, this game is, quite honestly, probably Fischer's best game ever. Much better than the overrated "Game of the Century". To say that "most GM's would have played 18...Nxg2, so what's the big deal?" misses the point. How many of them would have played 15... Nxf2 in the first place? (as snow alludes to). That GM's were less tactically endowed in 1963 than 2200 players of today is a hard case to make if one plays over the games. |
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| Dec-07-07 | | Archives: This is my favourite Fischer game too.
How many people would see the crushing refutation to the so natural looking 14.Rfd1 Definitely not me. I would have played 14.Rfd1 myself. It gets that rook on an open file and attacks Blacks isolated pawn while allowing the other Rook to occupy the open c-file. |
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| Jan-19-08 | | Tomlinsky: Excellent choice CG. A beautiful game. |
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| Jan-19-08 | | drpoundsign: His games against Reshevsky, Larsen, and of course Spassky (who could actually fight back a bit, sort of like Ali-Frazier) are more spellbinding. But this is solid work, too. |
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| Jan-19-08 | | Mostolesdude: Great commentary of the game. Deservedly so. Bravo Fischer!!! |
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| Jan-19-08 | | centercounter: Snowmobile, I think it's more than that. The natural flow of the combination leading into this is to take the Rook - i.e. momentum. You also have to consider the strength of players in that day vs. now. Fischer's contemporaries were considerably below him. Nowadays, chess is at a point where very little separates the top 20 players. We've seen examples of this with Bologan and Naiditsch winning major events. In Fischer's peak, he was statistically the equivalent of at least 100 points above everyone else, whether or not the rating showed it (and I haven't researched). So he saw ideas that many missed. Many having grown up on such games now consider such moves as Nxg2 much more easily than our chess "forefathers." |
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| Jan-19-08 | | Tomlinsky: 18.Nxg2 isn't the point. The brilliancy started quite a bit before move 18. It's the overall execution of the ideas and plan here. The flaws in Byrne's moves aren't obvious until after the fact as evidenced by GM commentators at the time who didn't get what was going on either. Also, Fischer may have been head & shoulders above his contempories inside of the US in 1963 but he certainly wasn't outside. Yet. Each generation tends to believe that it invented sex, drugs, rock and roll, you name it. It doesn't take much sifting through games of Tal, Petrosian, Botvinnik, Korchnoi, Fischer, to name but a few to realise the depth of their positional and tactical abilities. And all of that without instant access to virtually any evaluated variation of worth played up to the last 5 minutes. Don't make the mistake of underestimating those 'forefathers'. They knew how to rock too. :) |
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| Jan-19-08 | | samhamfast: Troubled, temperamental and eccentric, Bobby Fischer was also a genius at the chessboard and an inspiration for thousands of Americans who subsequently learned chess. I hope he will be remembered for his accomplishments behind the board and not for the unfortunate ravings of his troubled mind. He will be missed. |
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| Jan-19-08 | | talisman: CG. nice choice. |
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| Jan-19-08 | | THE pawn: <The brilliancy started quite a bit before move 18.> To me, it started in 1956. |
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| Jan-19-08 | | JG27Pyth: <Snowmobile: Am I the only person on this world to think this combination is pretty straightforward?> Yes. |
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| Jan-19-08 | | znprdx: <CG> thank-you for recognizing this game as opposed to the ill-named 'Game of the Century' against R.Byrne's brother Donald - (who?) <Jul-18-07 Some call me Tim: This is perhaps the most beautiful chess game ever played> Somehow this notion is a bit silly since there is no one set of criteria. From start to finish Spassky - Petrosian 5th game 1969 WC is boggling. This dual of the Roberts belongs in a special category of games where the final winning move: Qd7 (not the Nxg2[B]) is a 'quiet move' which screams: it's all over! Just going through all the lines of defense bends the mind. <snowmobile:> Stop kidding yourself- you would nevr have found this move - and probably couldn't even win from here - against Fischer if had the Whites. Grandmasters 'see' concepts - they adapt in-situ, computers calculate, humans envision. The rest is synergy. The oft-cited "bolt from the blue" game vs. Benko is another example where it is not Rxf6[N] but the knight retreat which wins the point. FIDE destroyed him: the final insult was subsequently adopting his recommended rules. And so the world lost the chance to watch him reduce Korchnoi and Karpov to footnotes in Chess History. What a waste all because (as Bob Dylan expressed so well) "pettiness that plays so rough" Kasparov got it right in his uncompromising praise. Now there is a match... who knows - maybe they played it - privately over a decade? What would the Chess World pay to see those games? Any takers for a postumus Houdini-like revelation? That's something to search for....Robert James Fischer - his ultimate legacy may yet to be discovered. I sincerely hope so - anything to silence the bleating of the lambs. <samhamfast:" Troubled, temperamental and eccentric, Bobby Fischer was also a genius at the chessboard and an inspiration for thousands of Americans who subsequently learned chess. I hope he will be remembered for his accomplishments behind the board and not for the unfortunate ravings of his troubled mind” > I thought you were referring to GeorgeW. Bush.
Did you know Bobby personally? –this sounds like journalistic ‘Newspeak’ – the same ‘morovs' (more 'off' than 'on' - I don't wish to insult actual 'morons')who were unable to distinguish contextual metamorphical ranting with regards to RJF's commentary following the WTC attack the 11th day 9th month of 2001 (the actual first year of the millenium) Did you ever pay attention to Michael Moore's "Bowling for Colombine" with Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" as counterpoint...a brief listing of the consequences of American foreign policy as measured in hundreds of thousands of deaths...is it any wonder that some people might lose it? I wish there were more people with the integrity and courage to be so outspoken - because the face of the truly chilling form of terrorism is diguised by the mask of US style demo'n'cracy (or democ'k'ra'z'y): look at the present farcical adventure as the candidate marionettes dance to the puppet-masters choreography - the invisible hand of the power elite. PS my apologies to anyone who still holds to the illusion of "America the Beautiful". As a tribute to Fischer I thought I might try to explain at least a part of his angst. I'm not endorsing his anti-Semitism ...but let us face it: he is not the only person who has issues with his mother which is sad to be sure. Misunderstood genius - strange how those words go together. May he rest in peace and may we give it a rest - especially journalists who know nothing of Chess - which should be a prerequisite to
critical commentary.
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Jan-19-08
 | | Phony Benoni: There is so much that is incredible about this game, but I particularly like 19...d4. Such line-clearing pawn sacrifices are common, but they normally occur at the beginning of combinations, not in the middle. By the way, there's a slight typo in the annotations: the note to White's 15th move should read: <There is hardly any other defense to the threat of ...Ne4. --
Fischer>. ...Ne5 was obviously a mistranslation from the descriptive. |
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| Jan-19-08 | | michiganling: My favorite Fischer game, and maybe my favorite chess game of all time. Thanks for making it GOTD, CG.com. RIP Fischer. |
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| Jan-19-08 | | kevin86: What a finish! As was described in the notes Fischer's play was "witchcraft,rather than chess". When I saw the names of the players-I thought of the 1956 game where Fischer sacrificed his queen to enable a whole army of pieces to surround and mate Byrne's king. All this,at the age of thirteen. This game I mentioned won a "brilliancy prize of public opinion". This text is far more subtle,but no less brilliant or effective. |
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| Jan-19-08 | | LawrenceT: Hey znprdx!!! Do us all a favor and stick to chess; keep in mind that YOU would be speaking "Newspeak" if the United States hadn't come to your aid!!! You are quite mislead if your only opinions concerning America are handed down to you by Michael Moore!! |
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Jan-19-08
 | | playground player: <znprdx> is pathetically wrong about virtually everything. But that's only what we should expect from anyone who sees Michael Moore as an oracle. What are we to make of someone who expresses such virulent hatred of America, while gorging himself at America's table? |
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| Jan-19-08 | | Inf: Where do these annotations come from? they were not here before (Fischer's death) and now they are? Maybe there are more Fischer annotations on other games <chessgames>? |
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| Jan-19-08 | | kevin86: May I add a little compromize to this situation?
Michael Moore is a satirist-and I think even he doesn't take much of what he says as serious.If taken with the proper "grain of salt,he is a hoot". IMHO,we need both Moore and Rush Limbaugh to make us laugh,and hopefully not-to get at each other's throat. America has been involved in bloody intrusions and atrocities before,as I believe Iraq is now. She also has been involved in liberating campaigns as well-eg:D-Day. America is neither ALWAYS a liberator on a white horse nor is she the Great Satan-the truth,as it usually is,is somewhere in the middle. Note:I didn't realize that this was not the same Byrne that played in the 1956 classic,but,brother,the result was similar. Both were "posterized" by RJF. |
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| Jan-19-08 | | Petrosianic: <FIDE destroyed him: the final insult was subsequently adopting his recommended rules.> Absurd. Fischer retired after winning the world title. For all his great strength, he lacked the one piece of strength that every other world champion had: The nerve to put what was won on the line, and risk losing it. Fischer wasn't strong enough to do that. You're quite mistaken in thinking that FIDE adopted his rules. In no championship match, before or since, has the challenger been required to win by 2 points. For the simple reason that it's unfair. What people don't realize is that all these attempts to blame other people for problems Fischer created himself is merely patronizing him. At least treat him like a human being, rather than Forrest Gump. |
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