Yes. Sorry I meant.. Rg6. But in your line up until 20.Be7 (I'm guessing you meant Bxe7?) then black has Rxg2+ picking up whites queen.. But I think you're right, this must be the trap Fischer meant, but even so would you have played 17.Bg5? anyway? Looks too risky as opposed to a trap.

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Rubinstein would get away from the table as a courtesy to his opponent but then would go squat in the corner of the room and talk to himself. Then there was the bout with the fly (Fischer's flies were a different story.) But Rubinstein began to constantly complain about a fly buzzing around his head and people got suspicious of him. He went into decline at that point and soon started making elementary mistakes in his games and eventually ended up in an asylum.

Fischer was not as bad as Rubinstein or Steinitz in regards to mental stability but I think by the time he won the world championship, he really was sick of playing the Soviets. It is too bad Fischer did not play Karpov or even Kasparov although Fischer, like you stated, would be getting up in age. A great tragedy in the world of chess.

And too bad Fischer chose Yugoslavia in '92 and started his absurdly bazaar story about how the K-K matches were rigged. A sure sign that Fischer's mind wasn't right. It led him to angry retorts against his country for their reprimand against him. Clearly, anyone who would cheer on the destruction of 3000 people is not right in the head.

Yes it is a good opening and one of the oldest for sure. :) Myself, as black against e4, I like the excitement of the Sicilian.

I say, "I've never met a Sicilian I didn't like." I've been experimenting with the Kan variation lately. I like the bishop set up as a sniper in the a7 foxhole. :)

Have a good one my friend!