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Jack Rabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-20-08 10:12 PM Original message |
The Jack Rabbit Chess Report: Fischer dies; Wijk aan Zee lives on |
Edited on Sun Jan-20-08 10:14 PM by Jack Rabbit
News for the week ending January 20
Bobby Fischer, 1943-2008 Bobby Fischer, 64, the brilliant chess player and eccentric individual, died in Iceland Thursday night at the age of 64 of an illness most sources say was kidney disease. Fischer was first noted in international chess circles in 1956 when, at the age of 13, he defeated grandmaster Donald Byrne in a game played during a tournament at the Manhattan Chess Club in New York City. Fischer, playing Black, calmly sacrificed his Queen on the seventeenth move which led to a long-winded minor-piece checkmate 24 moves later. The US magazine Chess Review published the game and dubbed it the "game of the century." The following year, Fischer won the US national championship and the year after that won the title international grandmaster, being the younger grandmaster ever up to that time at the age of 15. At the age of 16 in 1959 Fischer becoming the youngest player to play in the world championship candidates tournament. In 1963, at the age of 19, Fischer underscored his superiority in American chess by winning the national championship with a perfect score in an 11-round tournament. Fischer's star in the international arena, already high, began souring to the farthest reaches of the heavens in 1966. That summer, he began the Second Piatagorsky Tournament in Santa Monica poorly with only 3½ points out of nine rounds at the half-way point in the event. In the second half, Fischer surged to score 6½ points in the last nine rounds to claim second place behind Soviet grandmaster Boris Spassky, who earlier that year had lost a match for the world title. Spassky would win the title from then-champion Tigran Petrosian in 1969, setting the stage for Fischer's greatest acomplishment. In 1970, Fischer began his challenge for the world title by winning the Interzonal Tournament in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, with 18½ points out of a possible 23, 3½ points ahead of his nearest rivals: Bent Larsen (Denmark), Efim Geller (Soviet Union) and Dr. Robert Hübner (West Germany). In 1971, with the old candidates' tournament replaced by a series of matches, Fischer won the quarter final match from the Soviet Union's Mark Taimonov by a score of 6-0 and then amazed the world by repeating the whitewashing with another perfect score in six games against Larsen. Reaching back to Palma de Mallorca and going to the beginning of the final candidates' match against the former champion, Petrosian, Fischer won 20 games in row against some of the strongest grandmasters in the world. Fischer won his match against Petrosian in Buenos Aires by a score of 7½-2½, winning the last four games in a row from Petrosian, who was one of the most difficult players ever from whom to win a game. In the summer of 1972, Fischer played a match for the world title against Spassky in Reykjavik and won by a score of 12½-8½. However, there was to be no prolonged Age of Fischer in chess. In 1975, Fischer forfeited his title to Anatoly Karpov in a dispute with FIDE, the world chess federation, about the rules of the match. In all, Fischer would go 20 years without playing an official FIDE-sanctioned game between his defeat of Spassky in 1972 and a rematch between the two in 1992, played in Yugoslavia. Fischer won the match, which produced some instructive games. Unfortunately, it was also the beginnings of his legal problems with the US government, which indicted Fischer for violating sanctions against Yugoslavia then in place. Fischer never returned to organized chess. The last tragic years of his live were spent in hiding, coming out on occasions to spew vile hatred of his ethnic forefathers and his native country which led many to conclude that Fischer was mentally ill. When Fischer was cornered in Japan in 2004 and faced extradition to the United States, his friends and fans in Iceland stepped in and persuaded the Icelandic parliament to vote citizenship for Fisher and arranged for him to take refuge there. When his death was announced Friday, all the players and spectators in Wijk aan Zee for the major grandmaster tournament stood for a one-minute silent tribute. See also Bobby Fischer is 64, Democratic Underground, dated March 11, 2007. Magnus Carlson leads in Wijk aan Zee Group A Magnus Carlson, the seventeen-year-old chess prodigy from Norway, leads Group A in the Corus Chess Tournament in the Dutch resort of Wijk aan Zee after eight rounds with 5½ points. Magnus is a half point ahead of Levon Aronian of Amenia and the former world champion, Vladimir Kramnik of Russia. Current world champion Vishy Anand of India and Timour Radjabov of Azerbaijan follow with 4½ points each. In Group B, Sergei Movsesian of Slovakia has taken the lead from French grandmaster Etienne Bacrot by defeating Dutch master Wouter Spoelman today while Bacrot drew his game with the world's number two woman player, Koneru Humpy of India. Movesian has 6 points. The drama in Group B today was provided when Bulgarian Ivan Cheparinov refused to shake hands with his opponent, British GM and former world title challenger Nigel Short. The chief arbiter at first ruled that Cheparinov was in forfeit of the game under FIDE rules, but this was reversed by the appeals committee later in the day. The Short-Cheparinov game will be play tomorrow (Monday), which was scheduled to be a rest day. In Group C, 15-year-old grandmaster and Italian national champion Fabiano Caruana, who holds dual citizenship in the United States, defeated German international master Arik Braun in a battle of the leaders today to take sole possession of first place. Braun drops into a tie for third while grandmaster Dimitri Reinderman of Holland moves into second, a half point behind Caruana. The 13-round Corus Chess Tournament concludes in Wijk aan Zee next Sunday. |
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Jack Rabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-20-08 10:16 PM Response to Original message |
1. Naponiachtchi - Sargissian, Group B, Wijk aan Zee |
Ian Neponianchtchi Ian Nepomniachtchi - Gabrial Sargissian Corus Chess Tournament, Group B, Round 3 Wijk aan Zee, 14 January 2008 Spanish Petit Royal Game: Neo-Classical Defense (Berlin/Classical Hybrid) 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.d3
4...Bc5 5.0-0 Nd4
6.Nxd4 Bxd4 7.Nd2
7...c6 8.Ba4 d6 9.c3 Bb6 10.Bb3
10...h6!?
11.Nc4 Bc7 12.Ne3 0-0 13.Qf3 g6
14.g4 h5?!
15.h3 hxg4 16.hxg4 Kg7
17.Kg2 Nh7
18.Rh1 Ng5 19.Qg3 Rg8
20.Kf1 Bd7?
21.Nf5+ Kf8
22.Qh4 gxf5 23.Qh6+!
23...Ke8 24.gxf5 d5
!""""""""# $t+ Wl+t+% $OoVv+o+ % $ +o+ + Q% $+ +oOpM % $ + +p+ +% $+bPp+ + % $pP + P +% $R B +k+r% /(((((((() WHITE: Ian Naponiachtchi Position after 24...d6d5 25.Qxg5!!
25...Rxg5
26.Rh8+ Ke7
27.Bxg5+ f6 28.Rxd8 Rxd8 29.Be3 Bb6 !""""""""# $ + T + +% $Oo+vL + % $ Vo+ O +% $+ +oOp+ % $ + +p+ +% $+vPpB + % $pP + P +% $R + +k+ % /(((((((() WHITE: Ian Naponiachtchi Position after 29...Bc7b6
30.Ke2 30...Be8 31.Rh1 Bf7 32.Rh7 Bxe3 33.fxe3 Kf8 34.exd5 cxd5 35.Rh8+ Bg8 36.e4 36...Kg7 37.Rh4 Bf7 38.exd5 Bxd5 39.Bxd5 Rxd5 40.Rc4 Kh6 41.Rg4 Kh5 42.Rg7 42...a5 43.Ke3 43...b5 44.Ke4 Rd8 45.Rg6 45...Rd6 46.d4 exd4 47.cxd4 Rc6 48.Rg2 48...Rc1 49.Kd5 Re1 50.Kc6 b4 51.b3 1-0 |
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Jack Rabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-20-08 10:18 PM Response to Original message |
2. Gelfand - J. Polgar, Group A, Wijk aan Zee |
Judit Polgar Boris Gelfand - Judit Polgar Corus Chess Tournament, Group B, Round 4 Wijk aan Zee, 15 January 2008 Queen's Gambit: Catalan Opening (Tarrasch Defense) 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 c5 4.Nf3 cxd4 5.Nxd4 d5 6.Bg2 e5 7.Nf3 d4 8.0-0 Nc6 9.e3 d3
10.Nc3 Bb4
11.Bd2 0-0 12.a3
12...Bxc3 13.Bxc3 Ne4!?
14.Bxe5 Bg4 15.Bd4 Ng5
16.Bc3 Rc8 17.b4 Re8 18.h4 Ne4 19.Bb2 Qd7 20.Qc1 d2!?
21.Qc2 Bf5 22.Qb3 Be6 23.Qc2 Bf5 24.Qa4 Qd3?
!""""""""# $ +t+t+l+% $Oo+ +oOo% $ +m+ + +% $+ + +v+ % $qPp+m+ P% $P +wPnP % $ B O Pb+% $R + +rK % /(((((((() WHITE: Boris Gelfand Position after 24...Qc2d3 25.b5!
25...Nd8 26.Qxa7 Ne6
27.g4 Bxg4 28.Ne5!
28...Qc2 29.Nxg4 Qxb2 30.Bxe4 Rxc4 31.Bf3??
!""""""""# $ + +t+l+% $Qo+ +oOo% $ + +m+ +% $+p+ + + % $ +t+ +nP% $P + Pb+ % $ W O P +% $R + +rK % /(((((((() WHITE: Boris Gelfand Position after 31.Be4f3 31...Rc1!!
32.Raxc1 dxc1Q 33.Rxc1 Qxc1+ 34.Kg2
34...h5 35.Nh2
35...Nc5 36.Bxb7 Qc2 37.Bd5
37...Qg6+ 38.Kh1 Nd3 39.Nf3 Nxf2+ 40.Kh2 Ng4+ 0-1
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Jack Rabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-20-08 10:19 PM Response to Original message |
3. Braun - van der Werf, Group C, Wijk aan Zee |
Arik Braun Arik Braun - Mark van der Werf Corus Chess Tournament, Group C, Round 4 Wijk aan Zee, 15 January 2008 Semi-Slav Queen's Gambit: Marshall Opening 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c6 4.e4 dxe4 5.Nxe4 Bb4+ 6.Bd2 Qxd4 7.Bxb4 Qxe4+ 8.Be2 Na6 9.Bd6
9...Qxg2 10.Qd2 Nf6 11.Bf3 Qg6 12.0-0-0
12...e5?! 13.Bxe5 0-0 14.Ne2 Qf5 15.Qe3!
15...Nb4 16.Nd4 Nxa2+ 17.Kd2 Rd8 18.Ke2 Qxe5?
!""""""""# $t+vT +l+% $Oo+ +oOo% $ +o+ M +% $+ + W + % $ +pN + +% $+ + Qb+ % $mP +kP P% $+ +r+ +r% /(((((((() WHITE: Arik Braun Position after 18...Qf5xe5 19.Qxe5!!
19...Re8 20.Qxe8+ Nxe8 21.Nxc6!!
21...bxc6 22.Rd8! 1-0
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Jack Rabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-21-08 02:21 AM Response to Original message |
4. Fischer - Rubinetti, Interzonal, Palma de Mallorca, 1970 |
Bobby Fischer Bobby Fischer - Jorge Rubinetti Interzonal Tournament, Round 17 Palma de Mallorca, 2 December 1970 Open Sicilian Game: Scheveningen Defense (Fischer-Sozin Attack) 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e6 6.Bc4 a6 7.Bb3 b5 8.0-0 Bb7
9.Re1 Nbd7 10.Bg5 h6 11.Bh4
11...Nc5
12.Bd5!
12...exd5 13.exd5+ Kd7 14.b4 Na4 15.Nxa4 bxa4 16.c4 Kc8
17.Qxa4 Qd7 18.Qb3 g5 19.Bg3 Nh5
!""""""""# $t+l+ V T% $+v+w+o+ % $o+ O + O% $+ +p+ Om% $ Pp+ + +% $+q+ + B % $p+ + PpP% $R + R K % /(((((((() WHITE: Bobby Fischer Position after 19...Nh5 20.c5!
20...dxc5 21.bxc5 Qxd5?
22.Re8+!!
22...Kd7 23.Qa4+ Bc6 24.Nxc6 1-0
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Jack Rabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-21-08 06:10 PM Response to Original message |
5. News updates (Monday, January 21) |
Edited on Mon Jan-21-08 06:40 PM by Jack Rabbit
Fischer laid to rest in private ceremony
According to his wishes, former world chess champion Bobby Fischer was laid to rest today in a country graveyard near Selfoss, Iceland, about an hour's drive from Reykjavik. The ceremony was small and private, with no media present. Cheparinov shakes hands, Short still wins The eighth round game between British grandmaster Nigel Short and grandmaster Ivan Cheparinov of Bulgaia was replayed today in Wijk aan Zee, Holland in the B Group of the Corus Chess Tournament. Short defeated Cheparinov in 72 moves. Short was awarded the game by forfeit yesterday when Cheparinov refused to shake hands before the game. The decision was overturned later in the day by the appeals committee, which ruled that the chief arbiter of the tournament erred by simply forfeiting the game to Short without warning Cheparinov of the consequences of his behavior. In 1993, Short played and lost a title match to then-world champion Garry Kasparov. Cheparinov served as the second to Bulgarian grandmaster and former FIDE world champion Veselin Topalov in his title defenses. |
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