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| May-04-06 | | Ulhumbrus: 16 Bg5 is a preparation for 17 Qxe6+!. It clears c1 for the QR on a1 for the move Ra1-c1, so that after Black gains a pawn on c3 in return for the pawn which White wins on d5, the Bc3 and the c7 pawn can be skewered by Rc1.Nor is that all. In taking the c7 pawn, the Rook occupies the seventh rank as well, so White gains the benefits of a Rook on the seventh rank in addition to a pawn. |
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| Dec-07-07 | | qskakaley: Can someone please tell me how 25.Bd2 isn't a better move? Doesn't it virtually win material by force? |
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| Dec-07-07 | | JNewton: <qskakaley> I think that after 25. Bd2, black has the response 25 ... Rxf3. Now Black's bishop cannot be taken, and if 26 gf3, then 26 ... Rxd2, and White's attack has been nullified, and has lost his advantage. |
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| Dec-07-07 | | ernieb: I was thinking if 25. Bd2 Rb8. |
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| Jan-30-08 | | Eyal: <At the end of the tournament the two of us were invited by one of the participants, Yaacov Bernstein, to spend a few days on the kibbutz where he lived [...] At the kibbutz we played some blitz. In our tournament game I had collapsed as soon as Bobby had uncorked an opening novelty. Playing blitz I hoped for... well, not really revenge, but maybe one draw out of a series of games, was that too much? But no way. After a while he wanted to give me knight odds. I protested, but I had to oblige. That game he won also, and then he refused to go on. "No challenge," he said.> (http://www.chesscafe.com/hans/hans....) The opening novelty uncorked by Fischer that Ree refers to is apparently 16.Bg5 – until then, they used to play 16.Ng5 (http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...). |
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| Jan-30-08 | | Riverbeast: Amazing that Fischer could give knight odds in blitz to an IM, and former Dutch champion |
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| Jan-30-08 | | EdwardChisam: <Whitehat1963: I love the way Fischer barely protects his back rank bringing as much power as possible to the enemy king. > I felt the same way. Probably most of us at some point would have slipped in a little tempo loss with h3. Fischer saw that it wasn't necessary. |
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| Apr-18-09 | | paulmorphy41: ernieb, one move earlier 24Bd2 Rxf3? now is bad because of 25gxf3 and if Rxd2? 26Ra8mate! and if 24...R-b8 25BxB RxB 26Rxg7+ kf8 27h3 via N-g5 or N-e5...looks good also. I found a good line for black 16...Bxc3 17Rc1 Bf6 18Qxe6+ QxQ 19Bxd5 Qxd5 20RxQ Nb4 21R-d7 Nxa2 22Rcxc7 Rfd8 23Bxf6 Rxd7 24Rxd7 gxf6 maybe equal. |
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| Jun-11-09 | | vonKrolock: <Benzol> Voilà... :) |
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| Jun-11-09 | | Benzol: <vonKrolock> Your collection is growing. :) |
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| Jun-11-09 | | vonKrolock: <Benzol> And the quest will go on :) |
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| Jun-11-09 | | Benzol: <vonKrolock> Bojan Kurajica played Fischer in 1970 at Rovinj/Zagreb. |
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| Jun-11-09 | | Benzol: Jorge Alberto Rubinetti looks like another one.
There are more than I first thought there were.
:) |
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| Jun-11-09 | | vonKrolock: <Benzol> Much appreciated :) One of the Rubinettis and the Kurajica were missing... Now we have 29 games |
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| Oct-17-13 | | jerseybob: Riverbeast: In the Summer of '72, while he was in NYC debating whether to go Reykjavik, he gave Lombardy odds of a minor piece, and lost only after a severe struggle. |
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| Jul-27-17 | | whiteshark: It seems that <Whitehat1963> forget to ask his usual question some 12 years ago. I should like to do so now: <Go ahead and call me stupid, but I don't see the finish. How does white win?> ;) |
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Jul-27-17
 | | Retireborn: <whiteshark> After 25.Be3 Fischer has several threats: 26.Rxg7+ winning a second pawn;
26.Nd4 winning the Rc2;
26.Rd3 winning the Bc3.
Black does not have a useful move. |
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| Jul-28-17 | | whiteshark: <Retireborn> Thanks for the explanation to that effect. |
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| Mar-13-20 | | N.O.F. NAJDORF: I've always been interested in this game, but the reason I'm viewing it now is that I've just obtained the identical position against an online computer program.
Even though I set the playing strength to weakest, when I played 16 Bg5, it responded by moving the king, as though it knew of Fischer's seventeenth move.
The thing I have never understood is why, if Ree didn't see it coming, he didn't take the pawn on c3.
He would still end up losing the c-pawn, but only after the 'sacrifice' he didn't foresee. |
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| Sep-22-20 | | RandomVisitor: Just because a move - such as Fischer's 16.Bg5 - is a "novelty" does not mean is was better that what was previously played, for example this quick study:
click for larger viewStockfish_20092110_x64_modern:
<44/61 14:20 +0.64 16.Ng5 Bxg5> 17.Bxg5 h6 18.Be3 Qd6 19.Bb3 Na5 20.Bd4 Nc6 21.Bc5 Qxc5 22.Qxe6+ Kh8 23.Qe3 Qxe3 24.fxe3 Ne7 25.c4 c6 <44/60 14:20 +0.28 16.Bg5 Kh8> 17.Rac1 Qd6 18.Bb3 Ne5 19.Bf4 Nxf3+ 20.Qxf3 Be5 21.Bxd5 Bxd5 22.Bxe5 Bxf3 23.Bxd6 cxd6 24.gxf3 Rf6 25.Rd3 Rc8 |
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| Sep-22-20 | | RandomVisitor: 12...Bc5 is played more often in my database of games, for good reason:
click for larger viewStockfish_20092110_x64_modern:
<46/67 15:32 0.00 12...Bc5 13.Be3 Bxe3> 14.Qxe3 Qb8 15.Bb3 Na5 16.Nbd2 Nxb3 17.Nxb3 c5 18.Nxc5 Nxc5 19.Qxc5 Qxb2 20.Qd4 Rfb8 21.h3 Qa3 46/69 15:32 +0.41 12...Re8 13.Nc3 Nxc3 14.bxc3 Bd6 15.exd6 dxc4 16.Ng5 h6 17.dxc7 Qxc7 18.Nxe6 Rxe6 19.Qxc4 Qa5 20.Be3 Ne7 21.Rac1 Rc8 |
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Sep-22-20
 | | perfidious: <RV....<46/67 15:32 0.00 12...Bc5 13.Be3 Bxe3> 14.Qxe3 Qb8 15.Bb3 Na5....> In this line, I won a critical last-round game in 1986 from Boris Belopolsky
after he played (iirc) 16.Nd4, which I had never seen but has been played in recent years. If I had the score, I might submit it to CG, slim though the chances are it would ever make it in here. |
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| Sep-22-20 | | RandomVisitor: <perfidious>Nice job with that. A deeper look showing that black is holding roughly even with 12...Bc5 and not 12...Qd7: ...Note 16.Nd4 in the computer line below:
click for larger viewStockfish_20092110_x64_modern:
<59/80 5:06:35 +0.10 12...Bc5 13.Be3 Bxe3 14.Qxe3 Qb8 15.Bb3 Na5 16.Nd4> Qb6 17.Na3 c5 18.Nxe6 fxe6 19.f3 Ng5 20.Rxd5 exd5 21.Bxd5+ Kh8 58/78 5:06:35 +0.48 12...Re8 13.Nc3 Nxc3 14.bxc3 Bd6 15.exd6 dxc4 16.Ng5 h6 17.dxc7 Qxc7 18.Nxe6 Rxe6 19.Qxc4 Rc8 20.Bf4 Qa5 21.Rd5 Qb6 |
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| Jul-07-22 | | N.O.F. NAJDORF: I did once read online an article by Hans Ree about this game and his reminiscences about the tournament. He mentioned a visit he and Fischer paid to the kibbutz where Yakov Bernstein - who also competed in that tournament - lived. I haven't been able to find the article, but I have just found Ree's recollections in a book of his - The Human Comedy of Chess: A Grandmaster's Chronicles - in which he mentions the stay at Bernstein's kibbutz, where Fischer hugged a horse. Ree questioned Fischer about his antisemitism and Fischer replied that he was no longer anti-Semitic and that his mother was Jewish. In later years, he actually denied that his mother was Jewish, quite apart from calling for Jews to be rounded up all over the USA, which he had already disowned! |
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Jul-07-22
 | | MissScarlett: Was the horse kosher? |
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