Nigel Short vs Bobby Fischer


First, you would need an engine strong enough to do the job. I don't know if there were any back in 2000 capable of annihilating a GM like Short.
Then presumably the engine operator would himself play ridiculous moves in the opening - a LOT of them - 10 or 15, and yet not let the position slip into a completely lost mess.
Then he would turn on the engine and watch it recover the position, gain the advantage, and ultimately win. Every single time.
Could all this really have been possible?


It would be an astounding feat if true, ranking up there with the way he crushed Taimanov and Larsen.


Alright, I'm willing to concede it was probably an engine user trolling.
Happy now?

It would be an astounding feat if true, ranking up there with the way he crushed Taimanov and Larsen.

Steven Edward's Extended Position Description was only introduced towards the end of the century. So in 2001 there really would not have been a chess engine that you could load a FEN into and then have it play GM standard half way through the game.
Kramnik was about equal to the world's best engine in 2002 but Fritz was playing on an 8-processor computer box. (everybody had USD 100,000.00 worth of hardware back then *not*)
I am certain that Nigel Short was not playing a machine.
Certainly Short and Fischer had a thing about the Najdorf Poisoned Pawn Variation.

Because it never happened Urk! I take offense to an engine user claiming to be my idol! It actually makes me upset just thinking about it! Fischer quit when he was at the top because he knew chess was full of phonies! He had nothing to prove to anyone! I'm upset just typing this and angry as well!
Take a deep breath and relax.
If you keep letting your emotions control you, a bad word will come out of your mouth, and mum will confiscate your laptop again.

opps. you could have run Fritz on a 666mhz computer still expensive $10,000 kit at the time.
However back then part of engine strength was book lines.

What are you on about? Fischer never played like the online games with short! Stupid pawn moves. Have you even looked at the games?

Could not have been a supercomputer.
Probably like playing Chess Titans. I thought this happened in 2001. So it is just possible somebody was jerking around with a beta of [Deep] Fritz (2001) on a serious box prior to playing Kramnik (2002).
The thing about that period of time is Microsoft Windows NT 3.1 was a total flake on multi-processor computers. I know because I had to disable them on a trading system I created at the time. The company and me had a right fit at Microsoft over it since we had shelled out for boxes that were beyond Windows (3.1). Hence WNT 4.0 which is a pun on VMS that Microsoft blagged as a new kernel.


Sorry this whole thread is a joke. If Fischer said it wasn't him that's good enough for me. Unfollowing this thread. You fish keep debating stupid things that never happened I wont be participating anymore as it is an insult to Bobby.
Where is that ?
I am looking at the other way, a home based strong engine would have been big news in 2001 and made [deep] Fritz look silly for the Kramnik games.
Fischer only played 800 competitive games which is the real sadness.
Did it really happen?
At the time, 2000-2001 were there engines available to the public that could crush Nigel like that? Or was it really Bobby?
urk im glad u looked into this when i brought it up.... the games have fischers signatures all over them. just look at his use of the hook and ladder a trick he used in alot of his games!! cmon what generator plays the bongcloud every single time?????????? none of em do..