| Apr-18-05 | | RookFile: How many times has Bobby been the
one battling with 2 knights against
somebody's 2 bishops? I bet not
many! |
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| Dec-01-05 | | babakova: I bet Bobster wasnt to happy having to play with his horsies, at least he wasnt planning on giving up his darksquared bishop from the beginning. |
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Dec-01-05
 | | Benzol: Fischer played a number of games in this match with Knights although in the past he had had a preference for Bishops. |
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| Dec-01-05 | | RookFile: The only times, in the past, that I remember Fischer going for the bishop versus knight swap was the Ruy Lopez Exchange, and as black in the Nimzo. But 2 knights against 2 bishops is
very unusual for him. |
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| Dec-01-05 | | AdrianP: Funnily enough, I was reading just yesterday Taimanov's record of Botvinnik's notes on Fischer's style (reproduced in "Russians v Fischer"), where Botvinnik says that Fischer is often happy to exchange a bishop for a knight and is happy in knight (Fischer) v bishop (opponent) endgames. That struck me as at odds with my impression of Fischer's games. I'll post the exact quotation(s) when I have the book in front of me. ...maybe this is why Taimanov came unstuck so badly...! |
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| Dec-04-05 | | babakova: That sounds really odd since Fischer valued bishops at 3.25 and knights 3.0 , but I guess it depends on what the rest of the board looks like. Chess is hardly an absolute game. |
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| Jan-28-06 | | joelsontang: In my 60 memorable games, Fischer recommended 8.Nb3, so did fischer forget his writing?=) |
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| Aug-10-07 | | RookFile: I know that 8. Ne2 was considered a modern move going into this game, but white never had a prayer of winning this. |
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| Mar-13-11 | | hottyboy90: Very odd game by Fischer he never plays this passively. Does anyone know what game number this was as I dont know if the top of the page is even accurate or not? |
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| Mar-13-11 | | hottyboy90: Did he play for a draw from the start because the match was nearly over and he was winning by a big margin. |
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Mar-13-11
 | | FSR: <hottyboy90> I doubt it, since Fischer needed to WIN ten games to win the match; draws didn't help (especially draws as White). |
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Mar-14-11
 | | Troller: According to Larsen, Fischer overvalued the bishop pair when he was very young, but later he would have a more balanced view. And of course he had the exchange Ruy (as here) in his repertoire. |
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Mar-14-11
 | | HeMateMe: Why is this labelled "The $5 million match"? When Petrosian beat Spassky, why didn't they call that the $3,000 match? |
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Mar-14-11
 | | Phony Benoni: A $3,000 match was ordinary. A $5 million match was unique, at least at the time. |
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| Mar-14-11 | | hottyboy90: This match was great. In my opinion the games here are better than the ones from the 72 match!
Fischers games are unique. |
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| Jun-11-11 | | FischerSpasskyGuy: I agree hottyboy90. It was a closer and more exciting match than even 1972. |
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| Jun-03-12 | | RookFile: This game has the feel of an Anand vs. Gelfand 2012 battle. |
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| Dec-23-13 | | Owl: The Knight pair can at least hold against the Bishop pair in most cases |
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