Here's another blunder by Bobby in a game against Miguel Najdorf from 1966.
The blunder comes on the 30th move:
They really should know better [Big blunders by GM's]
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Here's a game featuring another GM who I admire, Nigel Short (he grew up in Atherton in the Borough of Wigan, which is where I live). The blunder here comes on move 31 when our Nigel overlooked a little something called CHECKMATE NEXT MOVE! Nigel you dingbat...
Here's another one, this time it's the great Garry Kasparov letting a win go walkies and only realising when it's too late...
This is the game between Vladimir Kramnik and Deep Fritz featuring a blunder which has been referred to as the 'blunder of the century'. A detailed description of the game can be read by clicking here: Blunder (Chess)
Nice post.
That was a shocker by Shorty.
Just one question about Bobby's 29th move, did making that move ultimately lose him the game? If so, why is it not a blunder? Even if he did intend greater things to come of it, ultimately that move cost him a draw and gave him a loss. As I see it, it was a blunder. Also, why are blunders only exclusive to non blitz games? I just don't get your point in this regard. Mistakes made by all players, whatever the time control, are the primary reason for who wins or loses aren't they? Or am I just being simple? (Please don't answer that.)
In regards to the picture with Bobby's head in his hands, consider it artistic license. I know he probably wasn't doing this immediately after moving his bishop, but I can put a pretty penny on him doing it when he realised, finally, that move cost him the game.
This next game is between the former world champion Tigran Petrosian and David Bronstein. Petrosian was famous for his very defensive style, and being almost impossible to beat, unless of course his head was in the clouds dreaming of fairies, which may explain this...
Another game, this time featuring a blunder by Anatoli Karpov, who plays as black against Larry Christiansen, and misses a long distance fork by his opponents queen.
Here's a game featuring a young Viswanathan Anand, the current world champion, which was played in 1988, against Alonso Zapata. Anand makes a huge humdinger and resigns after move 6!
Now for a blitz game featuring a blunder by Magnus Carlsen, playing against Mikheil Gagunashvili. Yes, I know what you're thinking, it was played in 2006 when Carlsen was very young (Carlsen was still rated 80+ higher than his opponent) and it's a blitz game, so the moves are bound to be inferior to standard play... but what the heck it's still worth seeing. Both players had 4 mins/move with 2 secs added on per move.
This game features a blunder by Garry Kasparov in a blitz game against Viswanathan Anand. The blunder comes on move 33 by Kasparov, he takes the bishop on e3, hanging his queen and failing to see Qxg4 by white next move. Kasparov fights on but resigned some 20 moves later...
In this game GM Samuel Reshevsky (white) blunders horribly, thinking that he's checkmated his opponent GM Vladimir Savon (black), but instead loses his queen and the game!
Here's another Bobby Fischer game against GM Robert Eugene Burger, played as part of a simul in 1963.
Now a game featuring Jose Capablanca blundering against D.W. Pemeroy. This was a simul and I suppose with more time Capablanca may not have gobbled up the Black king side pawns so eagerly.
This topic is dedicated to big blunders made by grandmaster chess players. Yes, even the highest ranked GM's can blunder. Famous masters whom you would think would know better but for one reason or another go into meltdown. Sometimes it's time pressure, sometimes though, it's just because...
The first example is a game between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky, in which Bobby falls foul to a brief moment of madness (no pun intended), and blunders horribly on the 29th move. Here is the game in full, enjoy!