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Sorry but 41...hxg3+ 42.Nxg3 and there is not forced mate.

Hi perfidious,

Not like you to chip in like that. FTB was confirming the 'What happens after 42. Kxh1 ?' post. (though there is a wee copied typo it's 42.Rc1+)

I like FTB's posts, always chess related and often clears up a question.

Anyway, whilst you are here. I've noticed the humans are adding computer talk to their comments. 'White has a +2 advantage. etc.

Do you remember people when analysing a game saying the word, 'box?'

The end this game (without the wasteful White Rook moves) would be 42.Kxh1 'box' Rc1+ 43 Kh2 'box' Bxg3+ 43.Kh3 'box'.

Box = 'only move' and a small box was used to designate an 'only move' in the informator.

Hi Harry,

I was trying to let down gently the P. Natmas's post thinking he had finally 'outdone Fischer'. I'm sure in the past a lot of his OTB opponents thought that as well.

Hi ughaibu,

I see what you mean. Actually copying and pasting the table (and tidying up) does not show too bad to give others an idea what we are talking about.

The two Fischer losses came in round 8 Fischer vs Robert E Byrne, 1965 and round 9 Reshevsky vs Fischer, 1965

17th US Championship, New York, December 12-31, 1965

----------------1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2
1. Fischer---- x 0 0 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 8½-2½
2. Byrne, R.-- 1 x ½ ½ ½ 1 0 1 1 ½ ½ 1 7½-3½
3. Reshevsky- 1 ½ x 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 0 1 ½ 1 7½-3½
4. Addison---- ½ ½ 0 x ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 0 6½-4½
5. Zuckerman 0 ½ ½ ½ x ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 6½-4½
6. Rossolimo--0 0 ½ ½ ½ x 1 1 0 1 1 ½ 6 -5
7. Benko----- 0 1 ½ ½ 0 0 x ½ 0 ½ 1 1 5 -6
8. Evans------ 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ x 1 1 1 1 5 -6
9. Saidy------ 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 x ½ 1 ½ 5 -6
10. Bisguier---0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ x ½ ½ 3 -8
11. Burger----0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ x 1 3 -8
12. Suttles----0 0 0 1 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 x 2½-8½

It was possibly close results like this that prompted Fischer to pull out of the 1969 Championship. he wanted a double round robin to recover from any accidents (his words.).

Under this system, given in the form A deposes B:

2nd USSR: Levenfish deposes Romanovsky

4th USSR: Verlinsky deposes Bogolubov

8th USSR: Levenfish deposes Botvinnik

9th USSR: Chekhover deposes Levenfish and Rabinovich

11th USSR: Belavenets deposes Botvinnik

16th USSR: Flohr deposes Bronstein and Kotov

22nd USSR: Smyslov deposes Geller (I'm not sure that this one counts, as they were joint winners before the play-off)

26th USSR: Kholmov deposes Petrosian

I think that technically he didn't pull out, he declined to participate. And the reason he declined to participate was as you said, his concern about "accidents" and the USCF's refusal to double the length of the US Championship to reduce the probability of this happening. He also declined to participate in the 1968 US Championship for the same reason, and the 1960/1 US Championship for unknown (to me) reasons.

Hi AylerKupp,

I was unsure about the 1968 one. The non-participation in 1969 is the more famous one as it was a zonal.

Hi ughaibu,

Looks like you are having fun, maybe, and please don't take this as criticism, add the game link.

Aaaargh! You're right, of course. I originally looked it up in Wikipedia and they were right also. I just put down the wrong year because of poor eyesight. And Fischer won the 1962 Stockholm Interzonal easily, perhaps too easily, 2½ points ahead of Geller and Petrosian.

That might have given him a false confidence that he would win the 1962 Candidates Tournament at Curacao just as easily. Who knows, if he had played in (and likely won) the 1961/2 US Championship he might not have had the time to properly prepare for the 1962 Interzonal and not won it so convincingly, or even not won it at all. Had he finished, say, in the top 3-6 places in the 1962 Interzonal he might not have been so overconfident prior to the 1972 Candidates Tournament and not started so poorly, and possibly might have won it. In that case he would have played Botvinnik for the 1963 WCC and become world champion almost a decade before he actually did. His career might have turned out quite differently, although that might have just meant that he would have retired from chess in 1963 rather than 1972.

Hi AylerKupp,

....and the Russians would have underestimated Fischer and might not have fixed World Chess.

The 1972 Hyper-Fischer mass media frenzy would have kicked off when Bobby got back to America on the 1st of July - Tom Cruise (born 3rd July 1962) would have been called Bobby Cruise.

I see. A kind of Super Modified Median (with a twist of lemon) where the players in the bottom half are ignored.

This tournament USSR Championship (1939) cutting the 18 player table in half has:

Botvinnik (winner)= 5½ from 9 games

Belavenets (3rd) = 6½ from 9 games

Hi ughaibu,

Another for your collection.

Palma de Mallorca (1969)

Petrosian, Korchnoi, Spassky and Hort

all scored more than the winner (Larsen) based on the top 8.

Larson won it by being the only player to beat the bottom five 5-0.

As far as Bisguier is concerned Fischer utterly dominated him. They played 15 games with Fischer winning 13, drawing 1, and losing 1. A 90.0% scoring % with 14/15 decisive games!>

This guy < AylerKupp> HATES Robert Fischer.

We neeeeeeed a LIST OF FISCHER HATERS on this site.