Anybody else picked up one of these lately? If not, I can give you some tips on how to get one LOL!>

Heh..

<"I don't belong here,"

Said old <<<Jess>>> right out loud.

"Easy, love, there's the safe way home."

Thankful for her fine fair discount, Jess cooperates,

Still alone, in oh-hell-oh,
See the Deadly Nightshade grow,>

(courtesy of User: capatal)

<Bobby Fischer> analyzes a game and gives chess advice in <Boy's Life> magazine!!!!

Ta!

I read that review with interest.

heh-- I THOUGHT IT WAS WRITTEN BY <Woody> himself the whole time until I just re-read your posts here!!!

And I was thinking-- hmmm, no author name signed..

So I was then thinking "Who might <Woody> actually be?

Could he be a real GM? Jeremy Sillman?

I was all set to ask him....

YOU BETTER STOP FOOLING ME YOU GUYS...

<intended particularly for Niels to read>

OK remember how you told me that if I was playing a tough game, and made a losing mistake, that I could benefit by digging in and making it as hard and long as possible for him to win?

<people hate that>, you said.

How true...

I thought of that when I was faced with that scenario in today's game, but from the opposite end. I obtained a so-called "won game" but he continued to play stubbornly and I knew he was in for the long haul.

This is when I remembered your <people hate that> quote. But in this case, I decided to turn "lemons into lemonade" by employing some other ideas you gave me about chess psychology.

OK- he dropped a bishop in the Middle Game.

I expected a resignation, but there were Queens and a bunch of other pieces on the board still, and he insisted on playing on.

So here's what I did:

1. I allowed myself a short period of elation.

2. I warned myself- It's not won yet. I have to work as hard as I worked from the beginning.

3. I made a plan- and I said to myself, "OK- all he's doing is testing my technique-- so this is a good time to practice my technique."

4. The plan--

--Consolidate the position
--Get the Queens off
--Don't be in a hurry- limit his counterplay bit by bit, move by move.

5. The psychological result--

Instead of feeling angry (why doesn't he show me respect and resign?), or feeling bored (this is just pointless unecessary hard work), I felt satisfied (I proved my technique-- at least against this particular individual), and, frankly, I derived sadistic pleasure (choking him-- bit by bit, inch by inch, minute by minute-- until he couldn't breath)....

1-0

heh- that was the only "point" that mattered-- and, arguably, the only psychological point that ever matters in chess. Which is a war game.

Mrs. Likes to Kill People on the Chessboard- quick or slow.

DO YOU THINK I SHOULD SEE A PSYCHIATRIST???

HAHAHAHAAH

Good grief-- I just spent almost 20 minutes writing a long, pointless post for your forum, and between the time I started till I tried to actually post it, they shut your forum down.

I suppose until your <postal order> arrives.

In the mean time, please treat my forum as your own.

You can even invite your friends here-no matter who they might be- Hell's Angels, Daughters of the American Revolution, or members of the Sarah Palin Fan Club- you name it.

And there's the Dough issue, unless the HUNK VISIT is subsidized...

Good show, <Jess>. Many times we see the winning of a piece go hand in hand with some compensation for the piece blunderer, an advantage that FIRST needs to be neutralized, BEFORE you can start thinking of winning more material, but MORE IMPORTANT, actively simplifying to a winning (end)game...

This transition Phase can last longer than one might hope and had expected, with all the consequences, psychologically, that you described...

<--Don't be in a hurry- limit his counterplay bit by bit, move by move.> Spot on -- rash decisions for more, quick, material gain, can lethally backfire.

EG - once all pawns can be traded, or when you're left with the "wrong Bizzyup", the material advantage can mean NOTHING, if it doesn't grant you an elementary winning endgame.

Mr. Knows what words to use and in which tone, to...

I note with great interest your collection of Fischer's Road to the Championship. Earlier this year I managed to snag a copy of Kashdan's "Fischer 1970", a tiny little monograph published by the USCF covering all his games that year coming off a prolonged hiatus.

Although they are not directly connected to the path to the WCC, there are five events he participated in during 1970 prior to the Palma de Mallorca Interzonal, four of which that certainly affected his title run. Unfortunately, the monograph gives only a narrative of the Classical time control games, but the games appear in CG's database.

Of vital interest is his four-game match against Petrosian in the USSR v The Rest of the World match in Belgrade, 29 March-5 April, as the event was his first after his eighteen-month hiatus and re-established his stature among the elite. The concession of the first board to Larsen, and subsequent scolding the Great Dane for his failures against Spassky while at the same time avoiding the current WCC who never lost to Fischer until Game 3 of the 1972 match, is perhaps one of the sublimest examples of practical chess psychology. It also presaged his subsequent Candidates Final match against the previous WCC.

He stayed in Yugoslavia, playing a speed chess (5m/G, described by Kashdan as "rapid transit chess") double round-robin 12-player tournament in Hercegnovi, scoring first with +17-1=4 (loss to Korchnoi), 2.5 points ahead of Tal.

He followed this success with the second annual Tournament of Peace in Rovinj-Zagreb, 12 April-5 May (+10-1=6, two points ahead of the field, losing only to the Yugoslav Kovacevic against whom he had never played before). He was the last to enter the field, which featured Smyslov, Korchnoi and Petrosian; the last two were his final two games in the tournament. According to Kashdan, this tournament left no doubt that he certainly was no worse than second best in the world at the time.

After dropping out of sight for several weeks, he arrived three days late for the Second International Tournament in Buenos Aires, Argentina, held between 19 July-15 August. Playing a compressed schedule, he smashed his way through the field to score +13-0=4, 3.5 points ahead of second-place finisher Tukmakov. With three rounds to go he was assured of first place. In both this tournament and the Tournament of Peace, of the 18 players, 11 were GMs.

He also participated in the 19th Chess Olympiade in Siegen, West Germany, from 5-29 Sept 1970, the largest Olympiade at the time (60 nations). This is notable as Spassky took the gold medal for Board One due to two circumstances: the Soviet Team's explicit intention of preserving the WCC's stature as #1, and Fischer's religious convictions which were not appeased by the schedule-makers, and thus caused him to play only 13 of 19 possible games. (Spassky only played 12.) Of particular note is his loss to Spassky in this event, easily Fischer's low point of the year. His final score was +8-1=4, just a bit more than 2% behind Boris.

Fischer's overall record in 1970 came to +47-3=23, a smidgen over 80%. (The third loss was to Larsen in the IZ.) Of his 73 games at classical time control, only 12 could be considered against anything but topflight competition.

I don't belong to them myself, but that's what the future is for.

According to p19 of the monograph, "... Panno forfeited in the last round. The game was to start after sundown, due to Fischer's religion, with other games at 4 P. M. This had been announced in advance, but Panno refused to play. Fischer won by 1 P-QB4." I doubt the game was to start during Fischer's sabbath "_due_ to Fischer's religion", and I don't see how RJF would be maintain his unimpeachable integrity and manage to play 1. c4, so there's a mystery still within this story.

Thank you SO MUCH for the link to your post on <Bronstein- Fischer 1970>..

I'm going in now to read it.

I have a very emotional connection to <Bobby Fischer> cuz my Dad taught me chess and he was a rabid <Fischer> fan and he died a couple of years ago.

I remember him cackling with glee when he told me about how <Bobby> "psyched out" the Russians in Iceland.

He told me that in tournaments sometimes people will arrive late, or just sit there letting their clocks run to intimidate the opponent.

My Dad taught me to be a fierce competitor over the board.

I'm not a strong player by any means--

But in my ratings range I like to play as SAVAGE A GAME AS POSSIBLE.

I like to win.

OK please post any and all other <Fischer> material you find.

If you look a few posts up here in my forum, you'll see a link to an article that <Bobby> wrote for "Boy's Life" magazine.

<User: Capatal> found it.

No problems there <KlangenGesamtkunstwerk>.

If speaking American was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for MY kids.

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