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Jun 28, 2017
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Got this puzzle today on TT. It's familiar. Was it from a Fischer game? 
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Anyone else seen this before somewhere?
IMBacon22
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#3

Wasnt that a game against Reshevsky?  

Giulio88
Giulio88
Jun 28, 2017
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#4

It's the famous game Fischer-Reshevsky, US Championship 1958, New York .

Strangemover
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Jun 28, 2017
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Yes I think it was a trick Fischer had seen in some of that Russian literature he devoured. 

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That's right. I studied that game a few years ago. Good example of a grim knight. That wouldn't work if the queen was protected. My first thought was to play e6, and then it started ringing bells