Susan Polgar
October 15, 2012
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“Black to move. How should White proceed?”
which is it?
I was just playing through this game a couple of weeks ago. Fischer played Be6, and Byrne cooperated by taking the queen:
1. …..Be6
2. Bb6 Bc4
3. Kg1 Ne2
4. Kf1 Nd4
5. Kg1
If white tries Rd3, black discovers an attack on the queen with axb6 to win. Continuing:
5. …..Ne2
6. Kf1 Nc3
7. Kg1 ab6
8. Qb4 Ra4
And this is all I remember off the top of my head, but after a plausible 9.Qb6, black just takes at d1 with a still strong initiative, and a material edge.
Byrne goes wrong at move 2 above- he should have taken at c3 instead of grabbing the poisoned queen:
1. …..Be6
2. Qc3 Qc5!
Taking advantage of the pin on d4 by the g7 bishop. Continuing:
3. dc5
I have a hard time seeing Rc1 as being better, and Nd2 is definitely worse. Continuing:
3. …..Bc3
4. Be6 Re6
5. g3 Bb4
6. Rd7 Bc5
7. Rb7 Rae8 and black is clearly better, but I don’t know if it is truly a decisive edge, though I might be missing a stronger continuation in this line.
That is pure like diamond. I don’t know if Byrne saw the coming positional Queen sacrifice. Are there any pictures of his face when Fisher played Be6 ? Wonderful!
It is extremely confusing when you put a position where the blacks are at the bottom instead of being at the top of the board!!!
Be6!! the game continued Bxb6,Bxc4+, Kg1 Ne2+, Kf1 Nxd4,Kg1 Ne2-c3, axb6 ,qb4 Ra4! -+