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My 60 Memorable Games is a chess book by Bobby Fischer, first published in 1969. It is a collection of his games dating from the 1957 New Jersey Open to the 1967 Sousse Interzonal. Unlike many players' anthologies, which are often titled My Best Games and include only wins or draws, My 60 Memorable Games includes nine
Game replay; Fischer is playing as black. The Game of the Century is a chess game that was won by the 13-year-old future world champion Bobby Fischer against Donald Byrne in the Rosenwald Memorial Tournament at the Marshall Chess Club in New York City on October 17, 1956.
In the immediate aftermath of Fischer's 1972 championship, several books appeared which were exclusively devoted to analysis of the match's 21 games. Fischer's own work includes My 60 Memorable Games , a well-regarded analysis of his own games, and (with co-authors) Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess , a popular primer intended for absolute beginners.
First, Fischer played the Queen's Gambit for the first time in his life in a serious game; second, he played it to perfection, the game indeed casting doubt on Black's whole opening system." [ 109 ] The win gave Fischer the lead (3½–2½) for the first time in the match.
Yugoslavia and Argentina take silver and bronze, respectively. The Olympiad featured the famous game between World Champion Botvinnik and 19-year-old American Bobby Fischer. Playing the black side of a Grünfeld Defence, Fischer obtained a small advantage but was not able to convert the endgame into a victory. The endgame has been subjected to ...
Chess960, also known as Fischer Random Chess, is a chess variant that randomizes the starting position of the pieces on the back rank. It was introduced by former world chess champion Bobby Fischer in 1996 to reduce the emphasis on opening preparation and to encourage creativity in play.
Fischer therefore qualifies to play Boris Spassky in a match for the World Championship in 1972. Commencing with his final seven games at the 1970 Palma de Mallorca Interzonal and finishing with his first match game with Petrosian, Fischer's run of twenty consecutive wins is the longest in first class chess since Wilhelm Steinitz established ...
After Bobby Fischer lost a 1960 game [4] at Mar del Plata to Boris Spassky, in which Spassky played the Kieseritzky Gambit, Fischer left in tears [5] and promptly went to work at devising a new defense to the King's Gambit. In Fischer's 1961 article, "A Bust to the King's Gambit", he claimed, "In my opinion the King's Gambit is busted. It loses ...