Tactics with Bobby
Black to play and winBlack wins with a nice combination: 37...Rxg2+! 38.Kh1 Rh4!! 39. Qf7+ (39. Nxh4 Rxf2+ 40. Nf3 Rxf1+ 41. Kg2 Rg1+! 42. Kh2 Qc2+ -+) 39...Rg7+ 40. f3 Rxh3 mate!The position is from the game Thorfinsson-Gunnarson, which was played on December 9 on the Icelandic television. If we should believe Karl Thoroddsen, it was Bobby Fischer himself who told the players this combination by phone after the game (which, by the way, after the gigablunder 37...Kg8?? 38.Qxg7 mate). So this is a little article in the category 'it's Fischer so it's news'. Robert James Fischer has developed quite a disgust when it comes to classical chess, because of the ever-growing opening theory, but it's nice to hear that on that safe island with gysers, where you can watch an awful amount of chess on television, he's also watching and enjoying himself!>> meer bij Chessbase
Peter Doggers joined a chess club a month before turning 15 and still plays for it. He used to be an active tournament player and holds two IM norms. Peter has a Master of Arts degree in Dutch Language & Literature. He briefly worked at New in Chess, then as a Dutch teacher and then in a project for improving safety and security in Amsterdam schools. Between 2007 and 2013 Peter was running ChessVibes, a major source for chess news and videos acquired by Chess.com in October 2013. As our Director News & Events, Peter writes many of our news reports. In the summer of 2022, The Guardian’s Leonard Barden described him as “widely regarded as the world’s best chess journalist.”
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