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Robert James Fischer vs Attilio Di Camillo
Eastern States Open (1956), Washington, DC USA, rd 1, Nov-23
Spanish Game: Morphy Defense (C78)  ·  1-0

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Sep-04-03  MichaelJHuman: Bc7 effectively ensure black loses material taking the pawn. If the pawn is not taken Re8 is devastating.
Sep-04-03
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  paulalbert: Another great Bobby game against Di Camillo is the one in 1957 US Championship. Great demonstration of how to win N and B versus R endgame. I also like to refer people to it because I happened to have been there to see Bobby play it. Both Bobby and I were around 14 and it was the first of the few times I had any direct contact with Bobby. Paul Albert
Sep-04-03  AgentRgent: Paul, I believe this is the game you're referring to... Fischer vs A Di Camillo, 1957
Sep-05-03
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  paulalbert: To AgentRgent: Yes that is the game.Sorry, I don't know all the techniques on the system to list games to which I refer. Paul Albert
Sep-05-03  AgentRgent: Paul, no worries, just thought I'd make it easy for everyone. (btw, all you have to do is go to that game, Copy the URL then come here and Paste it.)
Jul-29-04  Knight13: Ficher is stronger than Camillo.
Aug-01-04  Myndex: From about move 26, they almost seem to be chasing each other around the board in some sort of "Keystone Cops" kinda way - it's almost amusing - but the lack of any plan or initiative by Black, and Black's weak 38.Rb6 allows Fischer to spring his trap and blamo!

I am certainly no master, but I think 38.Black Qxg5 or maybe Nxe5 are better.

Aug-13-04  xiaolin: how come on move 40. didnt vlacks queen take whites bishop ?
Aug-13-04  Lawrence: <xiaolin>, if Black's Queen takes White's Bishop then the d7 pawn crowns with check and White has got two Queens.
Aug-27-04  xiaolin: ok lawrence then why doesnt the rook take the bisop ?
Aug-27-04  clocked: Re8+
Aug-27-04  wall: Why double the pawns with 26...hxg5 and just play 26...Qxg5 instead? Maybe 38...f6 instead of 38...Rb6?
Aug-28-04  clocked: because black wants to avoid f4
Aug-28-04  Lawrence: <wall>, are you interested in computer analysis? <Junior 8> agrees with <clocked> about move 26. Concerning 38.....♖b6 (which just throws the game away, eval +4.81) the solution is not 38.....f6 (eval +2.30) but 38.....♕d7 or 38.....♕c8, both +0.87 (17 min. search on a Dell at 3 GHz).

For example, 38.....♕d7 39.♗g3 ♕c6+ 40.f3

Sep-03-04  aw1988: This is amusing.

***EVENT: WASHINGTON D.C.***

Uh, so, does anyone know WHERE this was played? :)

Dec-09-04  chess man: Fischer just squeezes his oppenents pieces into useless positions.(I THINK FISCHER HAS A WAY OF DOING THAT!)
Mar-03-05  RookFile: So, it was noted that 8. h3 was
a serious strategic error by the
young Fischer. With his king castled,
but black not yet castled, it's not
hard to imagine ... g5, ....h5 and
... g4, with a terrific attack for
black.
Aug-25-05  shadowskill28: RookFile: Yes, it was an error for Fischer to play 8. h3, but Camillo blunder with the 10. 0-0(?) because this takes away his chance for the attack on the king-side.
Nov-29-05  Dres1: Dont be silly... h3 is not a blunder
Nov-29-05  RookFile: I'll have to see if I can find an
example of how a move like this gets
punished.
Jan-11-06
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  Mateo: <Lawrence> 38... Qd7 should lose anyway. 39. Bg7 Nf4 40. Kg3 Ne6 41. Re6 Qe6 (41... fe 42. Bf6) 42. Bf6 (xg5) with 2 pawns for the exchange and a very weak King position.

All the same after 38... Qc8 39. Bg7 Nf4 40. Kg3 Qc6 41. f3 Ne6 42. Re6 fe 43. Bf6.

The point is that 38... f6 does not work. 39. Qd5 Kh8 40. Bg3 (threatening 41. d7 and 42. Re8), White wins .

Jan-11-06  morpstau: 4o. be7!! Another example of Fischer woping on his opponents, even at a young age. Remesicent of the great Paul Morphy, the first ever and best ever World Champion. Bobby even admitted it in an interview in I belive 1967!
Jan-11-06  morpstau: Rookfile you are im afraid mistaken if you are referring to the so-called flank attack. That cant be played on this occasion because to reitterate what i before mentioned, Fischer was fully aware of that attack simply because he studied and basically idolized the elite Paul Morphy and his superior positional grasp. By the way Paul Morphy was the originater of this flank attack as Stenitz copied him in a game from his later match he had with Adolf Anderssen. And no that was NOT a WORLD CHAMPION MATCH as it was not oficial!
Jan-11-06  morpstau: Rookfile you are foolish and inprudent to think you know how to attack, and Bobby Fischer i might add on top of that. Give me a break
Oct-27-06  MyriadChoices: h3 is a blunder. He didn't play this game according to the theoretically best lines. Fischer was still young here and, though good, not great. He may have just been dicking around with sidelines, but the fact is that h3 is bad at that moment.
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