<"In the cosmopolitan cant of chess players, it is legend that masters of the game are all meshuga—Yiddish for a little batty.

But when they talk of Brooklyn's Bobby Fischer, the newly crowned U.S. champion, the kibitzers are moved to uncommon awe.

Bobby, they declare, is ganz meshuga, which is to say that he is quite addled.

Though he celebrated his 15th birthday only last week, he already shows all the marks of the great grand masters of one of the oldest, most intricate games known to man.

A floppy, abrupt young gangle-shanks, he stumbles through the physical world of school and subways and summer vacations in a tangle of arms and legs not quite under control.

But in the neatly ordered empire of the chessboard, he moves with vast precision. Swiftly he picks his way among the possibilities; haughtily he sidesteps the traps.

Experts compare his aggressive, scientific style to that of Russia's famed Alekhine, his flair for combinations to the touch of the U.S. master, Morphy.

He eclipsed such comparative greybeards as Samuel Reshevsky, 46, and Arthur Bisguier, 28, to win the U.S. title.">

The first thing I thought of was the extreme Swedish metal band, Meshuggah.

The writing is different than you might find this day and age. A bit more sophisticated.

I didn't realize that Fischer was already thought of as "meshuga" at the young age of 15. I assumed that came much later in his career.

<A floppy, abrupt young gangle-shanks...> What a terrifically visual description; and then to contrast that with his sublime chess piece movement is just good writing.

It is good writing and reading. I read most of the whole magazine on other subjects. Excellent.

I also enjoy reading the Victorian and Edwardian chess notations as well. They seem to have a charm all of their own and of course 'Three Men in a Boat' (pub 1889) is one of the two non-chess books I have read thrice. (Catch 22 is the other.)

These days text speech is murdering the language and although I use 'sacced' I still shudder and look over my shoulder for my English teacher every time I type it.

Chess periodicals do have a reputation for unreliability of issue, but no, the AP article was evidently inspired by <Chess Review>. They cite Kmoch's 'game of the century' tag, and he's quoted, <For his age, I don't think there is any better chess player in the world. He is a genuine prodigy and one of the best players in our club. [...] The outlook is brilliant. If he continues to proceed the way he has the past year or two, he's likely to become one of the greatest players of all time.>

Unless that was a known theme with this opening (the ♘ ♘ ♘ version), surely this is a stunning discovery on its own.

However, when this game was played it was already 2 years after Donald Byrne defeated Grandmaster Yuri Averbakh in a 4-game match.

Per Byrne's bio:

<Byrne played on five US Olympiad teams, but his greatest over the board success was the defeat of Yuri Averbakh (+3, =0, -1) in the 1954 USA versus USSR match played in Moscow.>

Not a bad choice, but I would probably go with

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reached after 15.♔e1-f1, black played 15... ♗e6!

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This is not at all in detriment of Bobby's brilliance in this game. I think 11 ... Na4!! is one of the best and more beautiful punishments for lack of good development in chess history, and it's a monument to the brilliance of Bobby Fischer.

At the end I mention about famous interview, where responding to an interviewer's question about how he was able to bring off such a brilliant win, Fischer said: "I just made the moves I thought were best. I was just lucky."