Re: Recommendation for repetoire book(s)

>> Now it's just a matter of extending my opening book to the point where I
>> can routinely defeat the world's best players without leaving my book.
>> That is how Fischer did it (if you check his games you'll find that he
>> almost never deviated from his repertoire), and that is how I intend to
>> do it.
>
> Almost never deviating from repertoire is not the same thing as winning
> all your games (or even most of them) without leaving book.

Having a 150 mph serve in tennis won't make one a winner, but that doesn't
mean it's a bad way to start building a game.


>> The best example of how Fischer operated was his use of the Poisoned
>> Pawn variation of the Sicilian as black. He didn't like the opening per
>> se, except he loved that every idiot claiming to be his peer would play
>> 10. e5 against it, which he had busted.
>
> That doesn't appear to be the case. The database with Fritz 8 gives
> eleven games in which Fischer plays the black side of the poisoned pawn
> (ECO B97). Chessgames.com only has ten of these games and no others.

Was the first one against Geller?

My books 15 years ago were not as comprehensive as today's databases, keep
in mind. Still, he exploited 10. e5 for all it was worth.


> Of these, the only two against world-class opposition are against Spassky
> in the 1972 World Championship match, where Fischer managed a loss
> (10.Bd3) and a draw (10.Bxf6).
>
> The other games are:
>
> vs Parma Bled 1961 1/2 (38) 13.f5 (no e5)
> vs Bilek Stockholm IZ 1962 0-1 (27) 10.e5
> vs Tringov Havana 1965 0-1 (22) 10.e5
> vs Parma Havana 1965 1/2 (34) 12.f5 (no e5)
> vs Mazzioni Monte Carlo 1967 0-1 (45) 10.e5
> vs Kavalek Sousse IZ 1967 1/2 (28) 10.f5
> vs Matov Vinkovci 1968 0-1 (20) 12.f5 (no e5)
> vs Matulovic Herzeg Novi blitz 1970 0-1 (44) neither e5 nor f5
> vs Parma Rovinj/Zagreb 1970 0-1 (57) neither e5 nor f5
>
> So, only three games with 10.e5, admittedly all won convincingly, but
> hardly against Fischer's peers.

I found more with 10. e5 in other books. I also found 10. f5 in Geller's
"application of chess theory."


>> Players kept thinking that their mistakes were made down the road, and
>> tried to fix the line. It was only when Yefim Geller played the
>> Poisoned Pawn against Fischer that the correct line -- 10. f5 -- was
>> revealed.
>
> You're talking about Fischer-Geller, Monte Carlo 1967, yes?

Yes, that one.

>The game that
> Fischer's wonderful demonstration of the correct line saw him resign after
> 25 moves?

Doesn't matter: the point is that Fischer showed that he played against his
"pet line" differently than most of the world.

Geller was also like kryptonite to Fischer. I don't know why he never
became world champion, because he certainly had the talent.

I still consider Geller to be the strongest opening player, ever, and a lot
of my theories are derived from my study of his work.

>And anyway, by that time, Parma had already obtained two draws
> against Fischer with (a delayed) f5, as you can see above.

Delayed isn't the same.



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Relevant Pages

  • Fischer Obituary in Economist (excellent read)
    ... PEOPLE were always coming to get Bobby Fischer. ... They tried to disrupt his chess games, ... moving rook or a sidling bishop, or with both in his favourite Ruy ...
    (rec.games.chess.misc)
  • In Memoriam: Robert J. "Bobby" Fischer
    ... I began playing professional chess on Labor Day Weekend, September, 1965, a week after Bobby Fischer returned from his first 2 1/2 year absence from international chess, that he took to protest the Soviet way of throwing games to ensure that their top players always won major tournaments. ...
    (rec.arts.mystery)
  • Re: RIP Bobby Fischer
    ... If Chris Benoit was a raving anti-Semite, he'd be Bobby Fischer. ... finish games as well as him. ... Yet, when forced to confront technicians and mat-wrestlers of chess, guys ...
    (rec.sport.pro-wrestling)
  • Re: Recommendation for repetoire book(s)
    ... >>> can routinely defeat the world's best players without leaving my book. ... >> all your games without leaving book. ... You claimed that Fischer routinely defeated the world's best players ...
    (rec.games.chess.analysis)
  • Re: Did Fischer Curse at Geller?
    ... situation was clear -- the American had lost his three previous games ... Suddenly Fischer stopped laughing, bent down and said ... Geller did not understand foreign languages.... ... I liked Tal the giant hunter, who, after his "worthless magic beans" ...
    (rec.games.chess.misc)
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