Who’s sitting across from the young Bobby Fischer?
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Susan Polgar
February 9, 2008
Chess Improvement, Chess Puzzles, General News, Major Tournaments
9 Comments
Gligoric.
Frank W. Lawrence
Yep. Gligoric.
Author of the book: “I play against pieces” which I own.
A.Weiler
Svetozar Gligoric
Saddam Hussein
Juan Valdez the coffee maker!
And the game is :
[Event “Porotoz Interzonal”]
[Site “-“]
[Date “1958.09.10”]
[EventDate “?”]
[Round “21”]
[Result “1/2-1/2”]
[White “Svetozar Gligoric”]
[Black “Robert James Fischer”]
[ECO “B98”]
[WhiteElo “?”]
[BlackElo “?”]
[PlyCount “63”]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 e6
7. f4 Be7 8. Qf3 h6 9. Bh4 g5 10. fxg5 Nfd7 11. Nxe6 fxe6
12. Qh5+ Kf8 13. Bb5 Rh7 14. Qg6 Rf7 15. Qxh6+ Kg8 16. Qg6+
Rg7 17. Qxe6+ Kh8 18. Bxd7 Nxd7 19. O-O-O Ne5 20. Qd5 Bg4
21. Rdf1 Bxg5+ 22. Bxg5 Qxg5+ 23. Kb1 Qe7 24. Qd2 Be6 25. g3
Rd8 26. Rf4 Qg5 27. Qf2 Kg8 28. Rd1 Rf7 29. b3 Qe7 30. Qd4 Ng6
31. Rxf7 Qxf7 32. Qe3 1/2-1/2
and the position is around the 20 or 21 move (in regard to the wallboard).
Well done, thank you!
okay
I’ve read the book (in translation) “I play against the pieces” and thought it was not a good translation. It may be literally correct, but isn’t what Gligoric trying to express is that he “played against the board and not the man”? That is he was focused on the board and didn’t worry too much about who his opponent was.
Anon 2/9 1:17 wrote:
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what Gligoric [was] trying to express is that he “played against the board and not the man”? That is he was focused on the board and didn’t worry too much about who his opponent was.
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No elite grandmaster plays like this anymore. If he did he would fall from the elite ranks.
Perhaps the majority of chess study that elite grandmasters must do nowadays is understand and memorize the opening tendencies of the opponents they will likely face in the coming days or weeks.
That issue is one reason why Gligoric wrote his book “Shall We Play Fischerandom Chess?”.
GeneM
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