Bobby Fischer vs Lawrence C Noderer (1964) Lawrence Fisch Burn

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Bobby Fischer vs Lawrence C Noderer
"Lawrence Fisch Burn" (game of the day Feb-21-2025)
Simul, 55b (1964) (exhibition), Hartford, CT USA, Mar-03
French Defense: Winawer. Advance Variation (C19) · 0-1

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Nov-28-10		technical draw: Another Fischer loss with no comments. Noderer was New England champion so he is what is known as a "strong amateur". Fischer's 31. Qa3 seems like a surrender move. 31.Qf1 would give more play.

Nov-28-10		perfidious: <technical draw> Your suggestion doesn't change anything, as after 31.Qf1 gxh2+ Black remains with an easy win. In an interview about thirty years ago, no less a player than John Curdo lost a game to Larry Noderer and commented appreciatively on his play, stating that while he was rated c 2100 then, it wasn't a reflexion of his true strength. While I played him twice in the late 1970s, by the time I became a master myself soon after, he'd disappeared from the scene and I've no idea what happened, though he had to be in at least his late fifties.

Nov-29-14		TheFocus: From a simul in Hartford, Connecticutt on March 3, 1964. Fischer scored +49=2-5.

Feb-21-25		HeMateMe: THAT'S a pun!

Feb-21-25		Check It Out: Made even better because LF was in Searching for BF and is a chess enthusiast.

Feb-21-25		Atking: Around move 20-25 Fischer is winning. This is the kind of lost in a simultaneous display.

Feb-21-25		An Englishman: Good Evening: Excellent pun for an excellent upset victory. Fischer once wrote that someday he might be forced to admit that the Winawer French was sound, "but I doubt it!" Wonder if this game might have swayed him in any way.

Feb-21-25		goodevans: <Atking: Around move 20-25 Fischer is winning.> Stockfish agrees with you. It’s interesting for a patzer like me to see where he went wrong. click for larger view Putting more pressure on the e-file looks like a clear way to progress the attack but after <26.Rbe3? d4> he has to deal with both his R and N en prise. <27.Re7+> sorts the first and buys him time to sort the second but then he’s forced to move the N, fatally opening up the diagonal to g2. Instead, the Qa3 that looked so desperate as his final move would have worked nicely as <26.Qa3>. Just as before, he’s eyeing e7 but now he’s able to keep the diagonal blocked. <This is the kind of lost in a simultaneous display.> Absolutely. I’m sure he wouldn’t have missed this were it not for the 54 other opponents.

Feb-21-25		offramp: In Scotland a <burn> is a stream or trivelet unto whom whence finds <fish>, for example salmon, trout, grayling, pike (don't tell him pike), haddock, cullen skink, finnan haddie, parteen bree and haggeroo. From any fish burn you will find these at <Macfisheries>.

Feb-21-25		Check It Out: <goodevans:Putting more pressure on the e-file looks like a clear way to progress the attack but after <26.Rbe3? d4> he has to deal with both his R and N en prise. <27.Re7+> sorts the first and buys him time to sort the second but then he’s forced to move the N, fatally opening up the diagonal to g2. Instead, the Qa3 that looked so desperate as his final move would have worked nicely as <26.Qa3>. Just as before, he’s eyeing e7 but now he’s able to keep the diagonal blocked> Thanks, this was helpful analysis.

Feb-22-25		areknames: Good game and good pun, although somewhat contrived.

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