It appears to be a Bob themed week, probably because the USA championship just began.

Fischer goes 11-0 at, I think, the 1964 USA Championship. I was just reading a bit about this time period. His game with A. Saidy was adjourned with Saidy having "at least drawing chances", but a bad sealed move led to a loss pretty quickly, the next day.

Golden words he will pour in your ear
But his lies can't disguise what you fear
For a golden girl knows when he's kissed her
It's the kiss of death from

Mister Goldhamer
Pretty girl beware of this heart of gold
This heart is cold

What every bond villain needs - apart from a cool name, a hidden lair and an evil henchman with a deadly bowler hat - is a flawed plan to take over the world.

This fatal flaw could be the "new-guy" syndrome. Picture the scene - you have all the preparations in place for your dastardly plan when a new guy turns up wanting to join your secret organisation. So what do you do? Any normal person would politely decline and send a reply saying "I am sorry but all the vacancies in our super top secret organisation are filled at the moment. But we will put your name on file and contact you again if anything new comes up."

That's what a normal person would do. But for some reason a super villain just can't help recruiting the new guy. And then being uber surprised when he turns out to be a secret agent. Or Vin Diesel.

Then there's the GOOT. When you have captured your spy you lock him in a deadly situation assuming that he will never Get Out Of That (GOOT). And you walk away leaving him to almost certain death, but you don't stay to watch how he manages to escape. As Scotty Evil wisely said: "Why didn't you just shoot up when you had the chance, numb-nuts?"

In today's game, Goldhamer's evil plan is a kingside pawn strom with f3-g4-h4. Today ze kingside, tomorrow the vurld!

But his fatal flaw is where he decides to leave his king. Instead the thematic Qd2 and long castling, he elects to keep his king on the kingside. The self same area of the board that he has just blown open with g4 and g5.

Somehow I can't see g2 and g3 overtaking hollowed out volcanoes as suitable locations for megalomaniac lairs. Call me old fashioned, but when I take over the world I am gonna get me some of those fancy-dan wall things for my lair. Goldhamer's open plan lair is not really to my taste. Admittedly it does have a nice unobstructed view of the battlefield...

(Fbar) Basic (Abar) ly (Gbar) you gotta (Fbar) mate
Basic (Abar) ly (Gbar) you're going straight

(D) Hey Mack dig a (C) little deeper an you
(G) never know you might (D) find
It pays to get (C) ahead on mine an you
(G) worry now defend your line

(Fbar) Automat (Abar) ic (Gbar) cut em (Fbar) down
(Fbar) Automat (Abar) ic (Gbar) apply your (Fbar) crown

There's some truth in what you say, but Santa Monica 1966 (the second Piatigorsky Cup) is an obvious counterexample. Playing after a six-month break, and with only one international event on his record since 1962, Fischer was awful for the whole first half of the double round robin: three losses (in a row, incredibly), five draws, and one win, for ninth place out of ten. "Lack of tactical sharpness bothered Bobby all through the first half of the tournament"--Mednis. That certainly sounds like rust.