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Bobby Fischer vs Anthony Saidy
"Dude Looks Like A Saidy" (game of the day Apr-12-2024)
United States Championship (1966/67), New York, NY USA, rd 2, Dec-12
Sicilian Defense: Classical. Anti-Fischer-Sozin Variation (B57)  ·  1-0

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Dec-19-05
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  Honza Cervenka: Pretty game. Mr. Saidy played it very well, at least until the move 24. I like his manoeuvre Nc6-d8-f7-h8-g6 with blockade of g-Pawn. Even Nimzowitsch would have been proud of it!

It is a pity for him that he ruined his position with careless and unfortunate 24...e5? after which Bobby unleashed an unstoppable attack. I think that after 24...Rf7! 25.Bxh5 Nxh5 26.Rxh5 Bf8 black is fine. Also 24...Rf7 25.Bf3 Bb7! 26.Bxh5 Nxh5 27.Rxh5 Bf8! gives nothing to white as 28.Nxe6?! could have backfired on him after 28...Qc6 29.Qg3 <(forced by threatening Qh1#)> 29...Re8! 30.Nxf8 <(after 30.Nd4 Qd5 black's counter-play gives him some advantage too)> 30...Nxf4!! 31.Rh6 <(of course, the Knight is taboo for mate - 31.Qxf4?? Qg2# or 31.Bxf4?? Qh1+ 32.Kf2 Qxe1# - and 31.Rh4 Nh5!! 32.Rxh5 f4! would not have been much different from the main line.)> 31...Nd3!! <[31...Nh5?! is not convincing for 32.Rg6+ Ng7 <(32...Kxf8?! 33.Qxd6+ )> 33.Qh3 f4 34.Qh7+!? <(34.Bd2 is possible too.)> 34...Kxf8 35.Qh8+ Ke7 36.Bc5+! Kd7 37.Qh3+ Nf5 <(or 37...Kc7 38.Bxd6+ etc.)> 38.Rxd6+ etc.]> 32.cxd3 <(now 32.Rg6+ does not work because the Rook on e1 is under attack: 32...Kxf8 33.Qxd6+ Qxd6 34.Rxd6 Nxe1 etc.)> 32...f4! 33.Rh8+! <(There is nothing better. 33.Bxf4 Qh1+ 34.Kf2 Qxe1# or 33.Qh3 Qh1+ 34.Kf2 fxe3++ 35.Ke2 Bf3+ with mate.)> 33...Kxh8 34.Ng6+ Kg8 35.Nxf4 Rxf4! <(Final blow. The Rook is taboo for a mate.)> 36.Nf2 Rf3 37.Qg4 Rexe3 etc. Is not it nice?:-D

Mar-24-06  Ulhumbrus: 14...g6 disturbs the king side pawns. 14...Bd7 gets the QB out.
Mar-24-06  Ulhumbrus: 15...f5 gives White the option of 16 exf5. 15...f6 avoids this.
Oct-15-07  Ulhumbrus: In the position after 11...a6 White has an advantage in space, but no more. Yet he advances his King side pawns, and this can hardly have any aim other than at least to threaten to checkmate Black's King. If this aim is too ambitious, one possibility to consider is the pawn sacrifice 12...d5 eg 12...d5 13 e5 Ne4 14 Nxe4 dxe4 15 Bxe4 Na5 16 Nxa5 Qxa5 or 12...d5 13 e5 Ne4 14 Nxe4 dxe4 15 Bxe4 Bd7. This pawn sacrifice warrants examining further.One question is whether the exposure of White's King side by g4 is worth a pawn to Black, because White has an advantage in space, and this reduces the effect of the exposure of White's game, it reduces Black's ability to make the exposure count.
Dec-30-11
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  wwall: So if 24...e5 is no good, alternatives could be 24...Re8 or 24...Bb7 or 24...Rd8 or 24...Bd7.

For 24...Rf7, perhaps 25.Bf3 Bb7 26.Rxh5 (instead of 26.Bxh5) 26...Nxh5 27.Bxh5 Nf8 28.Bxf7+ Kxf7 29.h4.

After 25.Bxh5!, 25...exd4 fails to 26.Bxg6 dxe3 27.Rh8+! Kxh8 28.Qh4+, threatening Qh7 mate.

Dec-31-11
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  harrylime: 24..Bd7 looks safest for black, but seizing that long diaganal with 24..Bb7 looks so tempting.

So after say, 24..Bb7 25.Bh5 Nh5 26.Rh5 e5 ?! looking to play Qc6 and give up the exchange after Ne6 ect..If 27.fe maybe 27..f4?! still looking to play Qc6 ?

Sep-30-13  jerseybob: Honzo:How about 24..Rf7 25.Bh5,Nh5 26.Qf3,Rb8 27.Qh5,Rg7 28.Ne6,Be6 29.Bd4?
Apr-12-24
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  HeMateMe: Hey, the rock and roll themes are back! Just for us Aerosmith fans.
Apr-12-24
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  An Englishman: Good Evening: Well, on the plus side, Saidy did handle this variation better than Firouzja did vs. Gujrathi a few days ago.
Apr-12-24
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  FSR: Silly pun. But it's a silly song, so why not? Or so it's always seemed to me.

<"Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" is a song by American rock band Aerosmith. It was released as the lead single from the band's ninth studio album Permanent Vacation in 1987. The song was written by lead singer Steven Tyler, lead guitarist Joe Perry and songwriter Desmond Child.

The song talks about a man who is mistaken for a woman. According to Desmond Child, Steven Tyler came up with the idea after mistaking Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil for a woman with long blonde hair. Tyler's bandmates made fun of him, joking about how the "dude looked like a lady".[8] In his book The Heroin Diaries, Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx concurs that the song was inspired by Neil.

"We were hailing a taxi in New York one night and these f---s, Mötley Crüe, pulled up in a limo. They called us in and every other word out of their mouths was 'dude'. You know, 'Yo dude! Your dude is really dude, dude.' I hadn't heard this crazy 'dude' [crap] before. We had just bought a sampler and we were listening to an Eddie Murphy album – the one where he keeps going on about Mr. T being gay… I kind of got a lick, but couldn't get the words. I had [crap] like, 'Cruisin' for the ladies,' or, 'My old lady's got rabies.' Bad stuff. Then I remembered my new word, 'dude'." – Steven Tyler[9]

Of "Cruisin' for the ladies", Child said, "I don't think Van Halen would put that on the B-side of their worst record."[10] Child recalls developing the song with the group: I walked in, and they had a song already written as "Cruisin' for the Ladies." They looked at me like, "Get outta here." Then Steven said, "Well, originally, when I was writing the song, I was singing 'Dude looks like a lady'." I said, "Oh my God, that's a smash." At first I suggested, "Let's write a story song. Maybe it's a guy who was like a Vietnam vet who was so like traumatized, he came back and became a drag queen." Joe Perry got a very stern look on his face and said, "Some of my friends are vets." I said, "OK. Forget about that idea. What about a guy who goes into a strip joint and sees this gorgeous, you know, bosomed blond stripping on stage and then he goes backstage and finds out it's really a guy." And they went with that. It goes, "She's a funky lady, I like it, like it, like it like that." The singer's sort of implying he went for it anyway 'cause he liked what he saw. He goes, "Never judge a book by its cover/or who you're gonna love by your lover." It has a kind of deep message in a way, because it's like, well, what is love, and what is a person, and if you're attracted to what you're seeing, you're attracted to it, you know? It's a kind of elevated song about androgyny, and, in spite of the fact that it's down and dirty, it has a kind of lofty concept.[11]

Joe Perry — who came up with the chorus riff – was concerned that the subject matter would offend the gay community, but Child said, "I'm gay, and I'm not insulted. Let's write this song."[12]> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude_...

Apr-12-24  goodevans: The pun is lame. The song is even worse. Airbrushed plastic rock but then what do you expect from Aerosmith?

At least the game is interesting.

Apr-12-24
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  perfidious: In their rocking days, Aerosmith would never have been caught dead putting out a dreadful song like this.
Apr-12-24
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  HeMateMe: I like the song because it lampoons the 'hair' bands, the excess glam boys of the '80s.motley crue, quiet riot, poison, David Lee Roth. The song would have been perfect inserted in the movie Spinal Tap.
Apr-13-24  Granny O Doul: I hadn't known this was called the "anti-Fischer-Sozin". Did Fischer ever fail to beat it?
Apr-13-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: This line has always been the Benko variation to me.

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