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| Nov-09-05 | | BadTemper: 13 bb5 has been played many times i cant see tigran liking it |
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| Nov-14-05 | | seeminor: wth 13.Bb5, Fischer would lose all the coordination in his position. Sure he would win the rook for bishop, but Petrosian has many times played exchanges sacrifices to relieve pressure, and it would surely be imprudent to hand this on a plate. With 13.Re1! Fischer quietly improves his position and lets Petrosian stew on how how should free himself |
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| Apr-09-06 | | Kriegspiel: <GreatGrecosGhost> Nice annotation (apparently by Fischer). Where does one find this and similarly annotated games? Much better for someone of my level than the terse annotations one sometimes finds of Master level games. Kriegspiel
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Jun-02-06
 | | nasmichael: <DutchDunce> <<from Feb 26 2005>> -- Thank you for the link to this Steve Lopez article. It is very relevant to many players, and the book suggestions in the article are ones which I will make use of in my chess life. Some are already familiar--Seirawan's in particular-- and they were very helpful. His teaching style is very relaxed and his efforts to make it conversational and accessible is helpful. Thank you for the link. Nice article for everyone to read.... http://www.chessbase.com/support/su... is still active link. |
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| Oct-22-06 | | Zorts: Why isn't 12...Bd7 feasible? |
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| Oct-22-06 | | Tactical: <Zorts>I'm guessing 12...Bd7 13. Qd4 is a good position for White. Interesting question |
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| Oct-22-06 | | Zorts: <Tactical> That's what I was thinking also. Jacob Cantrell's book says Black should have moved 10...Qxd5 or ...Nxd5. |
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| May-28-07 | | timhortons: 5...nc6 is not popular anymore..black can play more aggresively to attack white knight usin dark square bishop...or the simple development of knight at f6....<zorts>12...Bd7 is the correct way to block the check, but white has still a small advantage...the weak d pawn |
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| Jul-22-07 | | notyetagm: <who: So Fischer did have an advantage by getting white first.> Strange to hear you talk about Fischer having the advantage of getting White in the first game when he won the match by a lopsided <5-1> margin in decisive games. He blew Petrosian completely off the board. If Petrosian had had White in the first game, the result of match would not have changed one bit. |
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| Jul-22-07 | | notyetagm: This is one of my all-time favorite games.
<In a crystal-clear positional masterpiece, Fischer starts off by saddling his opponent with some weak pawns. He refuses to give Petrosian even a sniff of the initiave in return -- this is to be a torture session. Adeptly exchanging the right pieces off, he establishes a large and durable advantage. At the point when the assembled grandmasters in the press room are wondering how he is to make further progress, Fischer shocks them by paradoxically exchanging his "good" knight for Petrosian's "bad" bishop. It quickly becomes apparent that this is no error, but rather the move of a genius, as his remaining pieces make quick work of Black's position.> -- Introduction to Game 62 in <The World's Greatest Chess Games> by Nunn, Burgess, and Emms. |
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| Jul-22-07 | | notyetagm: What a beautiful game this is. One of the best-played games of all-time. And with the World Championship at stake, no less. A "crystal-clear positional masterpiece". What a great player Fischer was.
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| Jul-22-07 | | ttr2121: It is rather pathetic to listen to all the excuses made by those who lost to Fischer on his run to the title, Larsen in particular (can you say charlatan?). But I've heard tell that Fischer was actually ill during this match with Petrosian. He never mentioned, and I can find no press on it. Has anyone heard the same? |
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| Jul-22-07 | | Wolfgang01: Nobody loves to loose. Though 99 % of chessplayers blame somebody or the illness they're currently suffering, when they loose. I don't remember who said, that he'd never won again a healthy opponent.
It is known, that Bobby was ill at the first games of that match in 1971. When he got his sanity back, he beat Tigran Petrosjan like he beat Mark Taimanov and Bent Larsen before. But Bobby didn't blame somebody or suffered because of his illness!!
Many people I think, don't like Bobby because of his attitudes. But I really admire his play and his will and power for playing to win. And he showed it by playing not any other way … |
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| Jul-22-07 | | notyetagm: <Wolfgang01: ... But I really admire his play and his will and power for playing to win. And he showed it by playing not any other way …> Yes, clearly Fischer was one of the greatest players of all time. I think the greatest player of all time was either Fischer or Kasparov, take your pick. Botvinnik said that Fischer was the better endgame player of the two while Kasparov was better at combinations. |
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| Jul-22-07 | | jackpawn: Fischer had a fairly severe cold during the first half of this match. This was the first match I really followed, so I remember the details well. Fischer, on principal, refused to take a medical time-out. In many ways it's very easy to admire Fischer. Of course, in other ways . . . |
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| Jul-22-07 | | Petrosianic: >>Fischer had a fairly severe cold during the first half of this match. >> I don't remember reading that anywhere, and Chess Life & Review's article on the match doesn't mention it. It makes sense though, on the general principle that nobody ever beat a healthy opponent. Larsen and Taimanov were ill too. |
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| Jul-29-07 | | engmaster: 12) Qa4+ preventing polyprahylis, if black could castle and play b7 he would have a reasonable position. 12)..., Qd7 black sets a trap, exchanging the rook for bishop with counterplay. (After whites B-b5) 16) Bc5, white aims to trade off the active Black bishop and use C5 as an outpost. After the trade we have a classic good bishop v bad bishop. 18)b4, setting up the outpost and fixing the black a6 pawn on the black square. 22) Nxd7, here Fisher exchanges the outpost for a Rook advantage, penetration of the 7th rank. |
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Aug-24-07
 | | kingscrusher: I have done a video annotation of this excellent instructive game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwNA... |
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| Jan-19-08 | | Eyal: During the peak of his career at 1970-72, Fischer was arguably the most dominant player – relative to his opponents – in modern chess history, and this game is one of the best demonstrations of it. Fischer is playing here like someone who finally figured out chess. He was perhaps at his very best in such games, where he manages to emerge out of the opening into a "clear-cut" position with some sort of positional edge, however small it may seem at first, and then just mercilessly grind down his opponent in a clear and logical (but so difficult to imitate!) way. Some other masterpieces of a similar type are his wins against Smyslov, Hort, Filip, Ivkov and Mecking from the Palma Interzonal, and games 2&4 from the match with Taimanov. RIP Bobby Fischer, one of the greatest players chess has ever known. |
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| Jan-19-08 | | zev22407: A truly classic game by Fischer ,one of his many bests. |
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| Jan-19-08 | | Whitehat1963: Another example of the man's tremendous skill. |
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| Mar-31-08 | | madlydeeply: thats an interesting comment by ttr2121 calling Larsen a charlatan... if it weren't for that unfortunate candidates match against Fischer, Larsen would be considered one of the greatest chessplayers of the 60s... all you need is one little match to ruin a reputation... I suppose you could say the same about Taimanov and Spassky... they join the list of big time losers... poor fellas. |
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| Jul-15-08 | | Everett: <madlydeeply>
Of course Fischer shutting out Larsen in 1971 doesn't change the latter's status in the 1960's. Though Fischer crushed everyone in their turn in the early 70's, it is interesting to note that he peaked at a most propitious time. There was no Russian player combining a thirst for the title while approaching his peak. Spassky, Petrosian, Tal and Smyslov had already been there, done that. Taimanov was in his heyday much earlier, and not considered a legitimate threat to the title. Korchnoi, though considerably older than most of the others, is the exception, and he remained truly the only threat to Fischer at that time. Korchnoi and a rapidly improving Karpov, both hungry for the title and hugely talented and willful, could match Fischer. As for the other players, Larsen, Ivkov, Gligoric, Mecking etc.... it was clear that Fischer was better. |
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| Jul-15-08 | | RookFile: Larsen was at his peak, though. The thing about Larsen that was really scary was that he had fearsome endgame technique. If you went into an inferior endgame against him, you usually didn't survive. |
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| Jul-15-08 | | Petrosianic: Not sure if this point has been made on previous pages, but compare the opening of this game with the opening of Game 1 of the 1969 World Championship Match: Spassky vs Petrosian, 1969
Fischer's 8. c4 is an improvement over Spassky's line. Spassky did play c4 in that game, but a few moves later. |
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