Game 8 from Fischer's 60 Memorable Games book

I'm too sleep deprived to really dig deep into this game, but I'll try to snatch some actionable insights for myself from it. It's game 8 from Fischer's 60 memorable games. I'm going to go through one annotated game a day for inspiration and ideas. Ever since my girlfriend moved in, I haven't slept more than like 3 hours a night for a week and a half straight. Been moving like the walking dead. But, hey, sometimes your constraints can be your greatest paintbrush if you lean into them. Here's to showing how an adult can improve despite being a walking zombie every day and spending minimal time on Chess. 

Let's just write down some takeaways for myself from this game. 

-An interesting anecdote from Alekhine that Fischer writes for this game, that Alekhine said he had to be beat 3 times for someone to snatch victory from him. Once in the opening, once in the middle game, and once in the endgame. Fischer says Keres is like that too, and truly, there were many points where Keres analyzed legit draws for himself in the endgame even, despite getting such a miserable position out of the middlegame. 

-The concreteness, the granularity, in execution, my god. That is an intellectual virtue I aim to teach, granularity. Fischer always has an idea of his opponent's best tries and finds such amazingly concrete sequences to neutralize them even while pursuing his own agendas. 

-That Ruy Lopez line playing ...Qc7 in the ...Na5 old mainline, I'll give it a try playing it the way Keres played it just to be in good company, even though it's probably not objectively good. But I like copying the opening lines I find in these annotated games, hoping to enact something I saw from the game comments. 

-When I think of that Bxc1 to set up Nh6 followed by Qg4, it wakes me up to the fact that there tactical operations present at such a concrete granular particular devil in the details level in the middlegame and that even someone of Keres' caliber can fall into them. 

-And man, the way Fischer always had to contend with black's ideas of playing Rc1 in conjunction with Bc4 to either net the b2 or g2 pawns or create some threats against white's king. That kind of counterplay would have taken down a weaker player holding the white pieces there. Fischer's idea of the b3 move is instructive, not allowing ...Bc4 there, amazing prophylaxis, that Fischer himself missed during the game.