| There have been two accounts that contradict the version of Fischer's 1958 stay in the Soviet Union. The American version is that Bobby mopped up all his Soviet opposition at speed chess, until Petrosian was brought in to stop him: 1) Damsky's remark on p 121 of Kramnik: My Life and Games is that Nezhmetdinov "and also other Soviet masters, gave a good thrashing to the young USA champion." 2) Lutikov, in the foreword to his game collection (Shakhmatnoe Nasledie A S Lutikova), says that he beat Fischer in a match at speed chess by a score of 20-10. He also mentions that the youthful Fischer could not restrain his glee when Lutikov resigned in a winning position. Game 805 (Soltis-Fischer, NY Blitz 1971), of Hays' "Complete Games", 1995 edition, has "score not available." Yet, the beginning of that game may be easily grasped by Soltis' "Confessions of a Chess Grandmaster", page 73, in which he writes that it was a Najdorf Sicilian which went 6 Bc4 e6 7 Bb3 b5 8 0-0 Be7 9 Qf3 Qd7!? 10 a4 b4 11 Na2 Bb7! etc. I suspect that GM Soltis remembers more moves of that game. I'm afraid that 9...Qd7 in this line (played by no less than Fischer!) is a neglected move by theory. The following info came from the Ronald Henley Elista Diaries Fischer,R - NN [C41] Sarajevo, 1970 This fragment ocurred in two simul games played by Fischer in Sarajevo circa 1970�1971. 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 Bg4 4.dxe5 Bxf3 5.Qxf3 dxe5 6.Bc4 Qf6 7.Qb3 b6 8.Nc3 c6 9.Bg5 Qg6 10.Rd1 Be7 [10...Nd7 11.Bxf7+ Qxf7 12.Qxf7+ Kxf7 13.Rxd7++-] 11.Bxe7 Nxe7 12.Bxf7+ Qxf7 13.Rd8+ Kxd8 14.Qxf7+- When asked by Bjelkica on Yugoslav TV in 1971 if he thought Morphy played better than him, Fischer replied, "Well, we both won." 1�0 Errata to the book "The Unknown Bobby Fischer": pg.174, the diagram showing a position from analysis by Weinstein (also Vainstein). The black bishop should be on f6 (see move 16), not on e7 where black can play an immediate f6. The game given as played by Joe Reinhardt (Western Open Bay City 1963) was actually played by Allen Reinhard. Joe Reinhardt and Allen Reinhardt both played in the tournament. |