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surfnrad

As for benefiting a "charity" -- Revere America can hardly be called that.  http://factcheck.org/2010/09/revere-america/

raul72
Tricklev wrote:

How about his 1964 San Francisco simul? A simul he scored 4.5 out of 9, all against unknown unranked players.There are also quite a few simuls during his 1964 simul tour that didn't go so well.

Here's one of Fischers simul losses, hardly an impressive game.

 

 

Raul72, this isn't a matter of opinion, if you think Fischer won every simul game he played, just check or get any major database, most of which contains Fischers simul games.


 Tricklev, I dont believe it. What are your sources. I know he played a ten game clock simul at Davis college against masters and experts and went 10-0.  One of these games (#50) he included in my 60 memorable games.I cant believe he went down the road a piece and went 4 1/2 out of 9 in Frisco. The S King you refer to is Stan King, vice president of the USCF. I dont believe it! You probably mis-read it. Bobby could be playing the top GMs of Russia and he is not going to go 4 1/2 out of nine in a clock simul. That aint happening (without an explanation). Maybe he just had a car accident going to Frisco and half his brain was hanging out. Maybe someone slipped him a mickey and he played in his sleep. I dont believe it. 

rigamagician

I came across this collection of games from simuls by Kasparov and Kramnik against strong opposition.  The Kramnik simul mentioned earlier in this thread would appear to be the one against four German GMs at Brissago in 2004.

Tricklev

My sources is chessbase, Mega database 2011, which includes most of the games from Fischer's simul tour, you can look up more Fischer games in chessgames.com, unfortunately they make no difference between simuls, and they cling them all together as "Fischer's simul tour".

__vxD_mAte

Fischer was sooo obviously cheating. The US government had hired him to use their experimental hand-held computer, it resembles an iphone - the judges clearly could not see the threat from such a device.

raul72
Tricklev wrote:

My sources is chessbase, Mega database 2011, which includes most of the games from Fischer's simul tour, you can look up more Fischer games in chessgames.com, unfortunately they make no difference between simuls, and they cling them all together as "Fischer's simul tour".


 Tricklev, the source we should be using is "A Legend on the Road" a book about his 64' simul tour across America by Donaldson. 

desertls1

Until Tricklev posts conclusive results of Fischer's 1964 simul in which he purportedly scored 4.5 of 9, I'm inclined to believe this statement is patently false.

 

Since the posted evidence only declares his games under "Fischer's simul tour" how does anyone know the exact results of the simul in question?

Tricklev

Wow, the Fischer fan's really have a hard time believing fischer ever lost anything, if you refuse to believe the most trusted and well respected commercial database there is, then I assume there are few things you are willing to believe, if it claims Fischer ever lost a game.

Besides, The Simul I was refering to was a 1964 San Francisco simul, and if you have chessbase, it goes under that name, not "Simul tour", San Francisco was just part of that tour.

rigamagician

Here's Kaspy beating a player rated 2248 in 2008 in a simul game:

Archaic71

I suspect the 2000 limit is as much to keep the games within a reasonable time constraint as anything.  Kasparov would not want any long drawn out endgames keeping him from one of his super-models.

raul72
Tricklev wrote:

Wow, the Fischer fan's really have a hard time believing fischer ever lost anything, if you refuse to believe the most trusted and well respected commercial database there is, then I assume there are few things you are willing to believe, if it claims Fischer ever lost a game.

Besides, The Simul I was refering to was a 1964 San Francisco simul, and if you have chessbase, it goes under that name, not "Simul tour", San Francisco was just part of that tour.


Tricklev, I found my copy of "The Unknown Bobby Fischer" and on page 86 it says---"Fischer only gave two clock exhibitions during his 64 tour. Montreal on Feb 24, 1964---Bobby won all ten games. And Davis, California on April 16, 1964---Bobby won all ten games.

Tricklev you are indeed ---one stupid fellow!

Tricklev

I didn't claim it was a clock simul, besides, losing a simul that isn't a clock simul, isn't that even worse?