Bobby Fischer Stories Told by a master; During a tournament in 1959, There was a power outage. All the electricity went out in the building. As you could imaging, everyone was in a state of chaos. After the emergency crews entered the building...
Games three, four and five-all draws-represented another kind of turn in the Fischer fortunes. In the third game Petrosian barricaded his king behind a hedgehog formation and waited for Fischer to come and get him. Fischer made a s...
Bobby Clears The Board For The Title The audience in the Teatro General San Martin in Buenos Aires seemed mesmerized as Bobby Fischer took his seat in a leather desk chair and pushed his king's ...
Bobby Fischer is a ferocious winner Angry voices rattled the door to Bobby Fischer's hotel room as I raised my hand to knock. "Goddammit, I'm sick of it!" I heard Bobby shouting. "I'm sick of seeing people! I got to work, I got to rest! Why didn...
Bobby Fischer - Statement of Facts A very long blow-by-blow description of Fischer's arrest at Narita Airport has appeared in the "Bobby Fischer web site". It is entitled "Kidnapped and railroaded to his ...
Mr. Fischer, demon of the chess world. In the history of championship chess there had never been such an awesome display of power. Seven weeks ago, America's Bobby Fischer defeated a Russian grandmaster name...
By the 11th game Bobby was psychologically unfit to play safe. He wanted victories. Here was the weakness so many commentators had uncovered - an inability to pace himself in a prolonged struggle and thereby allow an opponent the oppor...
A Mystery Wrapped in an Enigma On the day he won the world chess championship [August 31, 1972], Bobby Fischer posed by an Icelandic hot spring, enveloped in its vapors and a native blanket. Since then he has shrouded himself in obscurity, vent...
Bobby Fischer, the Holy Grail - A Balkan OdysseyOnce upon a time, in 1975, a little English girl called Cathy Forbes leaned to play chess. She had heard wonderful tales of a great American champion, Bobby Fischer, who had captured the world chess ...
William Henry Pollock from England (1859-1896) was a player of International Master strength and Irish Champion in 1885 and 1886. He played the Black pieces against Max Weiss (1857-1927) in a game that will forever be classified as a wor...
he Peacock vs. the Wren Not since the youthful pianist Victor Borge, with the whole Danish Royal Symphony sawing away seriously behind him, looked up at the audience in the middle of a long troll--and winked--had a spo...
This is the game between Ladislav Alster and Jan Sefc on the czechoslovakian championship in 1956, in which Alster succeeded and later he became the champion. Nice win as black.
Julio Bolbochan (1920-1996) was an Argentine Champion in 1946 and 1948. He was awarded the International Master title in 1955 and became Grandmaster in 1977. He played in six Olympiads and qualified for three interzonals. The following g...
(An article on Chess improvement. An adult beginner’s perspective.) When men turns forty, they buy a Harley Davidson motorcycle and start wearing black leather jackets that go with the new biker image or they trade in the family sedan ...
All the World's a Pawn His gangling body rocked gently back end forth in the black swivel chair, an unconscious, almost metronomic motion that somehow heightened and intensified the drama. At times he leaned back lang...
A Tribute to "Bobby" Bobby Fischer. This enigmatic genius has elevated the game to...
There was great interest in the staging of this match. Belgrade put up the highest bid of 152,000 dollars. Buenos Aires followed with 150,000 dollars, and Reykjavik offered 125,000 dollars. After considerable negotiation, the President of ...
Fischer 1971- 1971 Taimanov candidates quarter final match held in Vancouver Taimanov had been Soviet champion in 1949 and 1956 and had played in the World Championship candidates tou...
By Year / Par Années 1946 1947 1948 1950 1951 1952 1953 1955 1956 1958 1959 1960 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 19...
Many years ago, when it seems like I had more time, and there was no computer screen to distract me, my stamp collection didn't gather dust on the shelf. "Topical Collecting" -- collecting stamps picturing certain topics, r...
1951 Max Pavey simultaneous Implications Fischer lost in about 15 minutes. However Mrs Fischer met Mr Carmine Nigro, president of the Brooklyn chess club, that evening, who invited Fischer to join the club an...
Fischer 1961-1970 1961 Rehevsky match Implications and Drama The play was abandoned because of a dispute indirectly created by Rehevsky's refusal to play on the Jewish ...
This game is from the current 2007 World Cup where IM Anuar Ismagambetov upsets GM Evgeny Alekseev after being outranked by 236 rating points! Here is IM Ismagambetov - GM Alekseev with full annotations and commentary: This wa...
"I'm Not Bobby Fischer" Don't call the 18-year-old boy king of chess a geek. He rules a new generation of champs raised on hip-hop and video games. SALON, March 2006 (Note: This is the original version of the story that ...
