TWIC is 31. First issue 17th September 1994.
Bobby Fischer (Book)
Fischer against Euwe 1957
IM Malcolm Pein - Monday 21st February 2011
Frank Brady's New Book ENDGAME on Bobby Fischer. | http://www.theweekinchess.com
Malcolm Pein takes a look at the new book by Frank Brady on Bobby Fischer which includes a previously missing draw between Fischer and former World Chess Champion Max Euwe at the dawn of his career.
'Endgame', a biography of Bobby Fischer written by Professor Frank Brady, has just been released and offers some fascinating insights into the troubled genius, as well as original anecdotes and even a previously unpublished game of the former world champion who died in 2008, ironically, at the age of 64.
Brady has drawn on family archives and those of Jack Collins, Fischer's first teacher. He has already published 'Profile of a Prodigy' but this work completes the story and describes how a bright confident teenager gradually retreated into paranoia as his chess prowess grew.
Fischer became rabidly anti-semitic and anti-American. On Sept. 11, 2001, he was exultant and phoned into a Philippino radio station to declare: "Yes, well, this is all wonderful news," and, "It's time to finish off the U.S. once and for all." This might have been the trigger for an arrest warrant issued by the US authorities. Fischer was charged with breaking US sanctions against Serbia by playing a rematch against Boris Spassky at Sveti Stefan in 1992, twenty years after his triumph over the Russian at Reykjavik.
He went from an American hero to a fugutive and was detained in Japan before escaping the clutches of US justice to Reykjavik, where he spent this final years as something of a recluse.
Brady unearthed Fischer's personal scoresheet from his 1957 two-game exhibition match against former Dutch world champion Dr Max Euwe at the Manhattan Chess Club. Fischer, then 14, lost the match 1.5-0.5. Euwe's win has been published but the second game had been thought to be lost.
Fischer had been outplayed and was probably lost in the final position.
Bobby Fischer - Max Euwe
Ruy Lopez
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Nxe4 6.d4 b5 7.Bb3 d5 8.dxe5 Be6 9.c3 Be7 10.Nbd2 0-0 11.Qe2 Nc5 12.Nd4 Nxb3 13.N2xb3 Qd7 14.Nxc6 Qxc6 15.Be3 Qc4 16.Qd2 c5 17.Na5 Qh4 18.Nc6 Rfe8 19.g3 Qh5 20.Nxe7+ Rxe7 21.Bxc5 Rc7 22.Bd4 Bg4 23.f4
(Fischer is a clear pawn up but the opposite coloured bishops give Euwe counterplay)
23...Rc6 24.a4 bxa4 25.Rxa4 Rh6 26.Qf2 Bf5 27.Rfa1 Rc8 28.Rb4 Rg6 29.Rb6 Rxb6 30.Bxb6 Qg4 31.Bd4 h5! 32.Rf1 Bd3 33.Re1 Rc6 34.Re3 Be4 35.Qe2 Qf5 36.Kf2 h4 37.Ke1 hxg3 38.hxg3 Rh6 39.Kd2 Bb1 40.Rf3 Rh1 41.Rf1 draw
Max Euwe
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Bobby Fischer
Position after 41.Rf1; now 41...Bd3 42.Qxd3 Qxd3+ 43.Kxd3 Rxf1 would be a struggle for White or 41...Qc2+ 42.Ke3 Qe4+ 43.Kd2 Rh2! also causes some problems.
Max Euwe - Bobby Fischer
Queen's Gambit Ragozin
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Bg5 Bb4 6.e3 h6 7.Bh4 c5 8.Bd3 Nc6 9.Nge2 cxd4 10.exd4 0-0 11.0-0 Be6 12.Bc2 Be7 13.Nf4 Qb6 14.Bxf6 Bxf6 15.Qd3 Rfd8 16.Rae1 Nb4 17.Qh7+ Kf8 18.a3 Nxc2 19.Ncxd5 Rxd5 20.Nxd5 1-0
Bobby Fischer
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Max Euwe
Final position after 20.Nxd5 with Qh8+ next
