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Mar-13-25
 | | MarcusBierce: < Petrosianic: <Gottschalk> <I think that Fischer's greatest legacy to the game of chess will be Fischer960 random.>
That may be because I'm not wild about his time controls. They kind of put training wheels on, and keep GM's from having to manage their time well.> Time management is as much of an issue today as ever. The base times are now lower, and the increment added so no one can lose solely on time. A compromise is the Bronstein Clock, where the increment is not saved for each move, yet is available to make the next move only and disappear. |
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| Mar-13-25 | | Petrosianic: <MarcusBierce>: <A compromise is the Bronstein Clock, where the increment is not saved for each move, yet is available to make the next move only and disappear.> Before inexpensive chess clocks were common, 10 seconds a move was very popular, and that's just a 10 second Bronstein Delay. I miss the thrill of actually making a time control, though. Another thing I miss, which was never used in international play, is Hourglass Time, where time you use is given to your opponent. The only place I ever saw that was in the Chessmaster games. They had a server where you could use it, and a 30 second Hourglass Time Control was quite fun. |
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Mar-15-25
| | MarcusBierce: <Petrosianic> the hourglass clock, to my Luddite delight, sounds like a great way to play! Imagine starting a game with an actual minute hourglass set at halfway on its side, attached to a swivel. Not even batteries needed! 30 secs per move is more than enough time to figure stuff out to play some solid chess and leave room for the rest of life. |
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| Mar-26-25 | | stone free or die: Anand comparing various WCC's:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/c0Xd...
<Fischer vs. Kasparov>
"I never thought of that before..."
Really?!?!
<Fischer vs. Carlsen> - took all of 1/2 second. |
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| Apr-03-25 | | Petrosianic: The My 61 Memorable Games Hoax is mentioned on Chessbase's April Fool's Article this year: <Nearly two decades ago a 753-page paperback, ISBN 0-9666673-0-1 and ‘Printed in Iceland’ was advertised. No publisher, editor or date of publication was indicated. It was almost impossible to find a purchase outlet, but Edward Winter managed to procure a copy and analysed it extensively, comparing it with Fischer's original (genuine) book. He quotes our own research on this book: Via Frederic Friedel (Hamburg, Germany) we learn that Garðar Sverrisson, who may be regarded as Fischer’s closest confidant in Iceland, states that Fischer would never have considered bringing out a book such as My 61 Memorable Games without consulting him. Mr Sverrisson writes: ‘When I told Bobby about the forgery in early December 2007 he just became sad and disappointed, exactly as he used to react when he learned about slander or a similar betrayal. At that time his health was deteriorating, and we had other things to worry about than who might be behind this book. When we discussed the possibility of having My 60 Memorable Games republished he was very much against using any improvements of his own or others (including computers). And changing the notation from the descriptive to the algebraic was out of the question. We never saw My 61 Memorable Games, and I still have not seen it.’> A couple of points on this:
1) I thought that at the time the prevailing view was that Ed Trice had written it. Is that still what people think, or was it disproven, or at least not proven enough for Chessbase to mention it in their article? 2) I also thought this wasn't a "hoax" at all, but a money-making scam. It had originally been announced as the precursor to an entirely new book "by Bobby" about the second half of his career. The second book never materialized after almost nobody believed this one. 3) Doesn't "Honest Abe" Joshka still insist that My 61 is genuine, and refer to it as "Bobby's 2006 analysis" without any hint that there's even a question about it? 4) Take note: Bobby would never have considered issuing the book in algebraic. As people may recall, Batsford issued a version in 1995 that not only converted it to algebraic, but <heavily> rewrote Fischer's prose. I'm not sure if Fischer would have approved of an algebraic version that made no other changes, but probably not. https://en.chessbase.com/post/prank... |
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| Apr-12-25 | | RookFile: Came across this matter of fact sentence about Fischer, after he finished 2nd a tournament in 1963: "Now aged 23, Fischer would win every match or tournament he completed for the rest of his life." Oh, is that all. |
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Apr-12-25
 | | perfidious: That statement is true, but only after the Second Piatigorsky Cup (1966). |
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| Apr-13-25 | | Muttley101: <RookFile: Came across this matter of fact sentence about Fischer, after he finished 2nd a tournament in 1963:
"Now aged 23, Fischer would win every match or tournament he completed for the rest of his life." Oh, is that all.>
I was a bit puzzled by this, because Fischer was 20 in 1963. However, he was 23 in 1966, when he finished 2nd in the 2nd Piatigorsky Cup, so it's either a typo of 1963 instead of 1966, or the person was a bit careless looking up the Piatigorsky Cup tournaments. The first was in 1963, and Fischer didn't play in the first in that. Perfidious figured it out first; when I read the post I misremembered the result of the 1966 tournament, thinking Fischer's turnaround in the second half gave him equal first. Yeah, it didn't :) |
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Apr-13-25
 | | MissScarlett: Sid Waddell: <When Alexander of Macedonia was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer…Bristow’s only 27.> |
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Apr-13-25
 | | Sally Simpson: Sid Waddell:
"It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline." "He's as happy as a penguin in a microwave."
"His eyes are bulging like the belly of a hungry chaffinch." |
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Apr-13-25
 | | Joshka: <Petrosianic> IM Larry Day almost 2 decades ago, wrote a review of the book for a Canadian newspaper. Do not recall what newspaper it was, but I'm sure Larry would tell you. I've had several copies at one time or another. Also The Chess and Checker Collection of John G. White, at the Cleveland Public Library says they have it as well. The chess patron, Sinquefield from St. Louis who sponsors many chess tournaments I'm sure has copies. Also a book seller in Connecticut named Delucia I believe, has copies. Well that's a start good luck in your search! |
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Apr-13-25
| | Sally Simpson: Edward Winter; "My 61 Memorable Games (Bobby Fischer)" https://www.chesshistory.com/winter... |
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| Apr-14-25 | | stone free or die: Any <Edward Winter> article is worth a look, but I've gotten interested in his <Latest update> tagging of late... <Sally>'s link has this notice: <Latest update: 31 March 2025.> So it looks as if some recent info might have been added. I used <Wayback> to compare this latest version to the last archived version of the page: https://web.archive.org/web/2024121... It has the notice:
<Latest update: 3 January 2023.> Copying this archived version's text, and the current page's, and comparing I found this one difference (other than the <Latest update> notice, of course!): <Our article on My 60 Memorable Games is Fischer’s Fury.> https://www.chesshistory.com/winter... Really, if I was running the show, I might not even update the <Latest update> for that - the <Fischer's Fury> article being from 1999. It also has a recent update - but now I wonder - why two pages? Shouldn't the ~Evans "concluded it was a hoax." really go on the 61 page? The "Fischer's Fury" should strictly be about the algebraic version of the M60 version I think. . |
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Apr-19-25
 | | saffuna: In a 1973 episode of "Columbo," the following position (from what I can see) was reached in a casual game (the night before their match) was reached between the Russian former champion (white) and the reigning champion (clearly based on Fischer).
click for larger viewIs this from an actual game, or was it invented for the show? White's win isn't all that difficult: 1. Qxb4 pxb4 2. Rxa8+ Bd8 3. Bxd5 Qxd5 4. Rx d8++. It looks invented to me. How could that black rook have gotten to d2? |
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| Apr-19-25 | | Olavi: It's an actual game, well known - but of course it'll take a while for me to locate it... |
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| Apr-19-25 | | Olavi: https://www.chesshistory.com/winter... |
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| Apr-19-25 | | unferth: maybe I'm just being blind, but where is the win after 3 ... Qe8? 4 Bxd5+ Kf8 5 Rxe8+ Kxe8 and the b2 bishop is going to fall to a rook fork. looks to me like white is pretty well lost, if fact. what am I missing? |
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| Apr-19-25 | | unferth: never mind, I found it. 4 Rxe8+ Bxe8 5 Bxd5+ Kf8 6 Nc4 keeps the bishop. white's still got a little work to do, though. |
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Apr-19-25
| | saffuna: <olavi> Outstanding! Here is a clip (sort of):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzw...
At 11:15. |
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Apr-19-25
| | saffuna: Here is the game: W Wolthuis vs C H Alexander, 1946 Black resigned after Qxb4.
I had the positiion wrong in my diagram. A black knight on d2 rather than a rook. Makes sense. |
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| Apr-19-25 | | unferth: ah ... that makes things easier! |
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Apr-19-25
| | saffuna: The board is shadowy in the video.
Lots of comments about "Columbo" at the original game. |
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| Apr-19-25 | | unferth: was that the game they were supposedly playing on a restaurant tablecloth with salt shakers? don't think I've seen that since it first aired, but I remember thinking it strained credulity at the time. |
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| Apr-19-25 | | stone free or die: <Although Clayton is one of the best chess players in the world, during his simultaneous exhibition, one of the people he is playing beats him after playing only two moves, a losing combination known as the "Fool's Mate" and notorious for being the fastest possible way for a player to be checkmated. This, presumably, is meant to demonstrate how much Columbo is unnerving him.> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt006990... |
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Apr-20-25
| | saffuna: <unferth: was that the game they were supposedly playing on a restaurant tablecloth with salt shakers? don't think I've seen that since it first aired, but I remember thinking it strained credulity at the time.> No, it was totally realistic.
Clayton had sought out Dudek the night before the match, which apparently was a one-game world championship match. Clayton then collapsed after losing, and this being Columbo, decided he had to kill Dudek. |
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