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Robert James Fischer vs Borislav Ivkov
Buenos Aires (1960), Buenos Aires ARG, rd 4, Jun-26
Caro-Kann Defense: Panov Attack (B14)  ·  1/2-1/2

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Oct-14-05  Petrocephalon: Isn't 59..Ke5 winning?
Oct-15-05  Petrocephalon: I need an endgame tutorial. After 59..Ke5, if black plays ..Kf5 and ..Re5-Re4 (white shuffling his king in the meantime), this leaves white three options: exchange Rxe4; allow the exchange ..Rxf4; or retreat the rook. In each case, isn't it a winning endgame for black?
Oct-15-05
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  tpstar: <Petrocephalon> White's blockade works because the K&P endgame is drawn. For example, 59. Rf4+ Ke5 60. Rf2 Rc4 61. Rf1 f4 62. gf+ Rxf4 63. Rxf4 Kxf4 64. Kf2 g3+ 65. Kg2 Kg4 66. Kg1=. Even with Rooks on plus one pair of Pawns traded, White holds the draw because the White King controls the Queening square. In the final position, Black can't make progress without losing the Pf5.

It always amazed me how the most prolific 1. e4 player in history had such trouble against the Caro-Kann.

Oct-15-05  Petrocephalon: Ah, the old opposition thingy. Thank you -- appreciated.
May-26-07  Helios727: In his notes from Fischer-Euwe, 1960, Fischer cites to this game and says that white has a bind after 13.Bf4. Yet Fischer ends up on the defensive here and only draws. Was there room for improvement after 13.Bf4 which would have maintained the "bind"?
Oct-17-07  PAWNTOEFOUR: <petrocephalon>...i need an endgame tutorial to,plus an opening and middlegame one,too
Jul-02-14  zydeco: Ivkov fairly effortlessly gets an advantage in this game. Not being a chess genius, I'm not sure why Fischer volunteered to lose a tempo with 14.Bb5 (instead of an immediate 14.Be2). Maybe he didn't like the possibility of .....Qa5 and wanted to lure the knight to c7.
Mar-09-22  SChesshevsky: <Helios727: ...Was there room for improvement after 13. Bf4 which would have maintained the "bind"?>

Seems the bind is on the e5 square. But the anchor is the d4 pawn that's unfortunately in a bad structure. c5 lead, backward d4 hanging pawns.

Think best way to hold the bind probably to take off pressure on d4 by Bxc6 then maybe Re1.

Guessing Fischer maybe thought too much of the passed c pawn, so was willing to release the bind. Not sure what he saw for 25. Bd3.

Mar-09-22  spingo: From chess history only Maroczy and Fischer knew what a "bind" was.
Mar-09-22
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  keypusher: SF's eval is about +2 after 13.Bf4, which makes sense given White's protected passed pawn and lock on e5. Either Fischer's 14.Bb5 or 14.Bc2 kept White's advantage, but 15.Be2 (15.a4 or 15.Bxc6 as SChess suggested) lost almost all of it.

Earlier the engine thinks 9....a5! (10.Na4 Nbd7 11.a3 ab 12.ab bc 13.dc e5 or if 13.bc e5 and if 14.de Nxc5! 15.ef Nxd3+ 16.Qxd3 Bxf6) was the route to equality.

Jul-09-23
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  perfidious: <PAWNTOEFOUR: <petrocephalon>...i need an endgame tutorial to,plus an opening and middlegame one,too>

Don't I know it; this game can be humbling indeed.

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