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| May-26-11 | | wordfunph: <refutor: this is the famous game where he couldn't make out his opponent's name on his scoresheet so for White he wrote "Fischer" and for Black he wrote "A Mongolian" :)> yes, from Andrew Soltis book Bobby Fischer Rediscovered.. <In the first round of the Olympiad at Bulgaria's Golden Sands resort in Varna, Fischer found himself paired with an unknown Asian opponent. As he prepared his scoresheet, he tried in vain to figure out how to spell black's name. Fischer looked at his opponent's scoresheet but couldn't decipher the writing. Then he looked at the name card on the side of table but the Cyrillic lettering wasn't much help. Finally, he solved the mystery. In the place of the scoresheet for white he wrote "Fischer". And in the place for black he added, "A Mongolian".> :-) |
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May-27-11
 | | perfidious: Purevzhav got pureed here. |
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| May-27-11 | | Cibator: That whole manoeuvre with the KN (to d7 and points west) was just too slow. But BobbyBishop is right: the theory of the Yugoslav was still a bit rudimentary at the time. It wasn't so long before this game that GMs were still castling short against the Dragon. |
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| Aug-24-11 | | joshuap: A great attack by Fischer |
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| Mar-21-14 | | RookFile: Well, I would have chopped that bishop off on b3 the first chance that presented itself. You guys are right, Fischer would win anyway because the whole thing was a time wasting maneuver. |
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Mar-21-14
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: I believe Fischer himself said that beating the Dragon was a matter of open the h-file, sac, sac, mate. Black refused both of them in this game, but it didn't make much difference. |
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Mar-21-14
 | | offramp: That extra chromosome didn't help black at all. |
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| Mar-21-14 | | superzee: Poor moves by black |
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| Mar-21-14 | | alfiepa: this is the famous game where he couldn't make out his opponent's name on his scoresheet so for White he wrote "Fischer" and for Black he wrote "A Mongolian" :) Not! was against Mjagmarsuren - Las Palmas 1970 :-) |
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| Mar-21-14 | | ossipossi: Putting a Knight in a5 was for nothing, while 13.h4 was to be contrasted with 13...h5. I like Dragon, seems logical but has a lot of weaknesses. |
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| Mar-21-14 | | gars: <An Englishman>: Good morning. You are right. I quote Fischer's words after his 16th move: "He won't get a second chance to snap off the Bishop! Now I felt the game was in the bag if I didn't botch it. I'd won dozens of skittles games in analogous positions and had it down to a science: pry open the h file, sac, sac ... mate!", as it is in "My Sixty Memorable Games". |
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| Mar-21-14 | | kevin86: White will seal in the black king and then force mate with queen and rook. |
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| Mar-21-14 | | RookFile: It's kind of humorous, but it's possible that what black should do is 12.....Nxb3, followed by ....Nd7 and and ....Nf6. He's already in a tough spot. |
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Mar-21-14
 | | diceman: <offramp: That extra chromosome didn't help black at all.> 17... e5 tried to break the bind.
...but white had too much pull. |
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| Feb-20-16 | | ZonszeinP: Why didn't ask Mr Purevzhav to write his name on his scoresheet? Just asking |
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| Nov-03-20 | | cameosis: <his is the famous game where he couldn't make out his opponent's name on his scoresheet so for White he wrote "Fischer" and for Black he wrote "A Mongolian" :)> true. the united statesian could have simply asked, but that thought never crossed his limited mind. so sad. |
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| Nov-14-20 | | redwhitechess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-_...
you are welcome |
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Aug-04-21
 | | keypusher: I just played through this ? it?s terrific. Too bad it?s slightly overshadowed by the scoresheet issue. But Soltis? story sounds a little fishy. Fischer had been studying Soviet chess magazines for years at this point. Could he really not read his opponent?s name in Cyrillic? |
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| Aug-04-21 | | RookFile: I don't think Soltis is the only guy saying this happened. |
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Aug-04-21
| | keypusher: < RookFile: It's possible to have bad handwriting in any language.> Absolutely, and I find Cyrillic cursive really challenging even though I can sort of fight my way through printed Cyrillic. But, per Soltis, there was also a name card in Cyrillic on the side of the table (I suppose that could have been in cursive also). |
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Aug-04-21
| | keypusher: Anyway, you can find pictures from the Olympiad on this page (scroll down). http://www.lecavalier.lu/History.htm It is an interesting site. The name cards didn?t use cursive. But as RookFile says it is not as if Soltis is the only source for the story. |
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| Jun-12-22 | | ndg2: <offramp> <That extra chromosome didn't help black at all.> I see what you did here |
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| Jan-08-23 | | jerseybob: For the second straight Olympiad Fischer is paired against an obscure but dangerous first-round opponent playing the Dragon(see Fischer-Munoz 1960). But what I really want to talk about is the scoresheet story, which is now a permanent part of folklore proving what a troglodyte Fischer was. And he often WAS a troglodyte, but not necessarily in this case. Where were the responsible adults, like team Captain Eliot Hearst, and the officials running the Olympiad? This isn't round one of a weekend swiss, it's the Big Show. Treat it that way. |
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Jan-08-23
| | perfidious: <RookFile: It's possible to have bad handwriting in any language.> Don't I know it. |
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| Jan-10-23 | | jerseybob: <jerseybob: For the second straight Olympiad Fischer is paired against an obscure but dangerous first-round opponent playing the Dragon(see Fischer-Munoz 1960).> Oops. Fischer-Munoz was actually Rd.2 |
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