Bobby´s Bio
Robert James (Bobby) Fischer geboren:09.03.1943 ...
My Immortal
watch the game n enjoy. due to the high concentration of my power on black's kingside, madly attempting to sacrifice my minor pieces , i proudly call this my immortal!!
Fischers "Kalter Schach-Krieg" II
Als Robert James Fischer Ende Oktober 1971 das Herausfordererrecht gegen den zehnten Weltmeister Boris Spasski erkämpft hatte, nahm in seinem Heimatland der Absatz von Schachspielen sprungartig um 20 Prozent zu. Fast jede Tages- und Wochenzei...
Fischers "Kalter Schach-Krieg"
1970 absolvierte Robert James Fischer das hektischste Jahr seiner Karriere. Doch der Erfolg gab ihm Recht. Aus 74 Turnierpartien holte er 59 Punkte. Knapp 80 Prozent lautete die stolze Bilanz. Nach einem gemächlichen Vierteljahrhundert Schach...
Richard Réti
Richard Réti (28 May 1889, Pezinok (now Slovakia) – 6 June 1929, Prague) was an Austrian-Hungarian, later Czechoslovakian chess player, chess author, and chess problemist. He was born in Pezinok which at the time was in the Hungarian ...
mate in 9 moves
Any comments please?
Ecclesiastic Maneuvers
"In the Middle Ages, the Roman Church condemned chess, as it did many other forms of amusement, as a tool of the devil. In later times, however, the church not only has softened its position, but has come around to warmly encouraging the...
does any one know if i could have won in this situation
The extra chomp
The extra chomp is were someone takes you and you take them back. So its like when you want to trade wait for them to come to you. EXAMPLE questions or comments please post.
No Sense
Okay, this is a magic trick, a mind magic trick. First pick any number, but a number 1-10 would be easier for you. Got it? Good. Now double your number (times is by two). Then add 10. Divide it by 2. Now take the number you started with and subtra...
Square of the pawn, a trick to save time
One technique you will often find in beginner endgame books is the 'square of the pawn' method. It allows you to know if your king can stop a pawn from queening in time at a glance. It is also very simple. Draw a diagonal...
Minority attack
In my last article, I discussed a pawn formation a knight manuever which locked up the queenside. Why would you want to do such a thing? The answer, in that position, lied in black's plan of a minority attack. A minority atta...
The Oldest Living Grandmaster
Andor Lilienthal (1911-) is a Hungarian Grandmaster born in Moscow; he moved to Hungary at the age of two. He played against many World Champions during his ilustrious chess career. Among the great players he defeated are: Lasker, Alekhine, E...
Counting your moves
This might sound weird, but counting moves (almost) made me lose the game. This is a game that I played, when counting moves is very important. I may have won in the end (king vs king and pawn) but in a different situation it was cost you the...
An Epic Battle
Viacheslav Ragozin (1908-1962), Soviet Grandmaster, chess writer and editor, played Black in this game against Hungarian Grandmaster Andre Lilienthal (1911-). White was winning by move 22, but when he missed the killer 23.Bf4, Black ...
The Ukraine Immortal
This game popularly came to be known as the ukraine immortal, because black blindly accepts white's crazy sacrifices and the king falls into a wonderful trap...
A Titanic Draw
This game was played at Nottingham in 1936 between World Champion Alexander Alekhine (1892-1946) and future World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik (1911-1995). Alekhine played White, he had Botvinnik a Knight down and it seemed like he had&nbs...
Viva Akiba
Here is what Al Horowitz had to say about this great Polish Grandmaster from the 20th century: "Akiba Rubinstein (1882-1961), what a player! Only by a strange quirk of fate did he fail to reach the World's Championship, having defeated ea...
Center fork trick
There is a trick very usefull trick that is called: "center fork trick", it's accures alot in games and give the player who used it a usualy better position. Now, for the trick: ...
Positioning
Positioning was key in this game. I had a chance to take black's queen, but instead, I ended up taking the game.
Logical Mate in Two
Mate in two:) If you have any feedback, feel free to share
Mate in 13
This is not a puzzle, is a complete game played in 1942 in New York between Herman Helms and Oscar Tenner. White offers his Queen as a juicy bait to get the Black King into a lethal mating net.
How does this happen?!
The Stalemate Defense
The following position happened during the US Championship of 1951, which resulted in a victory for Larry Evans. Max Pavey (1918-1957), an American Chess Master and Medical Doctor, completely outplayed I A Horowitz. Black finds himself t...
