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    Fischer defeats Larsen in the 1958 Sicilian Defense using the Yugoslav Attack variation. Larsen deviates from standard play on move 15, which proves disastrous as Fischer methodically pries open the h-file and sacrifices material to mount an attack against Larsen's king. Despite counterplay opportunities, Larsen's defense disintegrates under Fischer's precise execution, demonstrating how to effectively assault a fianchettoed king position.

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    Fischer defeats Larsen in the 1958 Sicilian Defense using the Yugoslav Attack variation. Larsen deviates from standard play on move 15, which proves disastrous as Fischer methodically pries open the h-file and sacrifices material to mount an attack against Larsen's king. Despite counterplay opportunities, Larsen's defense disintegrates under Fischer's precise execution, demonstrating how to effectively assault a fianchettoed king position.

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    Fischer defeats Larsen in the 1958 Sicilian Defense using the Yugoslav Attack variation. Larsen deviates from standard play on move 15, which proves disastrous as Fischer methodically pries open the h-file and sacrifices material to mount an attack against Larsen's king. Despite counterplay opportunities, Larsen's defense disintegrates under Fischer's precise execution, demonstrating how to effectively assault a fianchettoed king position.

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    The passage discusses two chess games played by Bobby Fischer as a young player. It highlights how Fischer was able to accumulate small advantages through technically proficient moves to gain the upper hand over his opponents.

    Fischer, with 'astonishing maturity', gradually strengthens his grip by accumulating small advantages such as having the better center and controlling two bishops.

    On move 15, Sherwin plays 15...Ne7?, which is a bad mistake. Black's game was still tenable after 15...h6.

    1.

    Fischer - Sherwin
    NEW JERSEY OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP 1957 SICILIAN
    DEFENSE Too little, too late
    Although Sherwin makes no serious errors in the
    opening, he misses several equalizing opportunities.
    Demonstrating the technical virtuosity that is to
    become his hallmark, Fischer, with astonishing
    maturity, gradually strengthens his grip by
    accumulating small advantages: the better center
    and the two Bishops. Sherwin, meanwhile, at- tempts
    to consolidate his position only to see his 14-yearold opponent shatter it with a thunderbolt (18
    xh7). It brings to mind Alekhines combinations, whic
    h also seemed to spring from nowhere. Sherwin,
    lashing back, refuses to fall. However,
    his defense finally disintegrates under a series of acu
    te blows to his wobbly King.
    1

    e4

    c5

    f3

    e6

    d3

    This used to be my favorite. I thought it led to a


    favorable variation of the Kings Indian reversed,
    particularly after Black has committed himself with
    e6.
    3

    c6

    g3

    f6

    Fischer-Ivkov, Santa Monica 1966 continued 4d5 5


    bd2
    d6 6
    g2
    ge7 7 0-0 0-0 8
    h4! with chances for initiative.
    5
    6

    g2
    0-0

    e7
    0-0

    More usual is 6d5; but Black has purposely delaye


    d placing his center Pawns. Has he a new idea in
    mind?
    7

    bd2

    After 7 e5
    d5 8
    ves White an edge.
    7

    bd2 f6 9 exf6

    xf6 10

    e1 gi

    b8

    Sherwin slid the Rook here with his pinky, as if to


    emphasize the cunning of this mysterious move. 7
    d5 8
    e1 b5 9 e5
    d7 10
    f1 b4 11 h4 a5 12
    f
    4 a4 13 a3! Fischer-Mjagmasuren, Sousse Interzonal
    1967, leads to double-edged play where Blacks
    chances on the Q-side countervail Whites K-side
    attack but White usually comes first.
    8
    9

    e1
    c3

    d6
    b6

    Not bad. But I had expected 9b5 10 d4 cxd4! (if 1


    0b4 11 e5! bxc3? [11dxe5 12 dxe5
    2

    d7 13 c4 holds the advantage] 12 exf6 cxd2 13


    d2! wins a piece) 11 cxd4 d5 with
    equality.

    10

    d4

    c7?

    This leads to trouble. Black should strive for


    counterplay by opening the c-file: 10
    cxd4 11 cxd4 d5 12 e5
    d7, etc.
    11

    e5!

    d5

    Worse is 11
    d7 12 exd6
    xd6 13
    e4 cxd4 1
    4
    xd6
    xd6 15
    f4 e5 16 xe5!
    dxe5 17 cxd
    4 winning a Pawn. The best try is 11dxe5 12 dxe5
    d7 13
    e2 b7 14 h4 with a bind, but Blacks ga
    me may be tenable.
    12

    exd6

    13

    e4!

    xd6
    c4

    An unpleasant choice, since it releases the pressure


    in the center and gives White a free hand to start
    operations on the K-side. However, other moves
    lose material: A] 13
    e7 14 c4
    f6 15
    f4, etc.
    B] 13cxd4 14
    xd6
    xd6 15 c4!
    f6 16
    3

    f4 and again the lineup on this diag- onal is


    unfortunate.
    14

    xd6

    xd6

    15

    g5!

    ce7?

    A bad mistake. Blacks game is still tenable after 15


    h6 16
    e4
    d8.
    16

    c2!

    g6

    On 16f5? 17
    e2 picks of a Pawn. Had Sherwin seen what was co
    ming, how- ever, he might have chosen 16g6 17
    e4
    c7 18
    h6
    d8, though 19
    d2
    A bad mistake. Blacks game is still tenable after 15
    h6 16
    e4
    d8.
    16

    c2!

    g6

    On 16f5? 17
    e2 picks of a Pawn. Had Sherwin seen what was co
    ming, how- ever, he might have chosen 16g6 17
    e4
    c7 18
    h6
    d8, though 19
    d2 pre- pares
    to exploit his weakened dark
    squares.
    17

    h4

    f6

    Apparently everythings defended now. Unappetizing


    is 17
    d8 (17h6 18 h5 hxg5 19 hxg6 f6? 20
    e2-h5) 18
    xh7!
    xh7 19 h5 f5 20 hxg6+
    xg6 21
    e5! with a bind

    18

    xh7!

    Throwing a monkey wrench into Blacks carefully


    contrived setup! As usual, tac- tics flow from a
    positionally superior game.
    18

    Not 18
    19

    h5

    xh7

    xh7? 19

    f4.

    h4!

    The best fighting chance. Not 19


    ns a clear exchange.
    20
    21

    f4
    gxh4

    21

    xb8?

    xg2 22

    21
    22

    h6!

    b7!

    e7 20

    f4 wi

    d8

    xg2

    b7+ 23 f3

    xb8.

    Hes hoping for 22


    xb7
    xb7 and, suddenly, the i
    nitiative passes to Black de- spite his material
    deficit.
    22

    xh4
    5

    The best fighting chance. Not 19


    s a clear exchange.
    20
    21

    21
    21
    22

    h6!

    f4 win

    d8

    f4
    gxh4

    xb8?

    e7 20

    xg2 22

    xg2

    b7+ 23 f3

    xb8.

    b7!

    Hes hoping for 22


    xb7
    xb7 and, suddenly, the i
    nitiative passes to Black de- spite his material
    deficit.
    22

    xh4

    Once again, time-pressure had Sherwin burying his


    thumbs in his ears. Instead of trying to mix it up,
    Black should keep his King sheltered as long as
    possible with 22g6 23 h5! g5 (if 23gxh5 24
    e2), but 24
    e5 stays a Pawn ahead with two Bishops. It might still be a fight, though.
    23

    hxg7

    xg7?

    Suicidal. The last hope would have been 23


    d8
    24
    g3
    h6, though 25
    e2 is hard to meet (if 25
    b5 26 a4 a6 27 axb5 axb5 28
    a8).

    24

    e4!

    Threatening 25
    24
    25

    e3!

    e5+.
    h5

    Now the Rook joins the King hunt and its murder. T
    he immediate threat is 26
    h3
    g6 27
    g3.
    25
    26

    h3

    26
    27

    f5
    e8

    g6? 27

    g3.

    e5+

    White can pick of a couple of exchanges with 27


    h6+
    g8 28
    xf8
    xf8 29 xb7, etc. But by now
    I felt there was more in the offing.
    27

    27
    28
    29

    g8? 28

    xf6
    h7+
    xf6

    On 32
    33

    g3+

    d2!
    g5

    On 29
    30
    31
    32

    f6

    c6+

    f7 29

    g7 mate.

    f7
    e7

    e7 30

    h7+ is devastating.

    xf6
    e8
    xh7

    xf6 33

    xb7 nets a whole Rook.

    Black resigns

    If 33

    d7 34

    xe6+.

    Fine 1 Partita

    2. Fischer - Larsen Slaying the


    dragon
    1958 SICILIAN DEFENSE
    Although the Sicilian, as a whole, is still the best
    fighting defense at Blacks disposal, much of the
    steam has been taken out of the time-honored
    Dragon Variation. This
    8

    is one of the key games which helped to batter its re


    putation. In a laudable attempt to create
    complications, Larsen deviates from the book
    on move 15. That proves to be disastrous, since his
    counterattack never gets started. Mechanically,
    routinely, Fischer pries open the h-file, sacrificing
    first a Pawn and then the exchange. There is an aura
    of the inevitable about the outcome. Here the
    notes are as instructive and lucid as the text, which
    is an object lesson in how to mount
    an assault against the fianchettoed King.
    1
    2
    3
    4
    5

    e4

    c5
    d6
    cxd4
    f6
    g6

    f3
    d4
    xd4
    c3

    Larsen was one of the diehards who refused to


    abandon the Dragon until re- cently. Whites attack
    almost plays itself weak players even beat
    Grandmasters with it. I once thumbed through severa
    l issues of Shakhmatny Bulletin, when the Yugoslav
    Attack was making its debut, and found the ratio was
    something like nine wins out of ten in Whites favor.
    Will Black succeed in reinforcing the variation? Time
    will tell.
    6

    e3

    6
    7
    8
    9

    g7

    g4? still loses to 7

    f3

    b5+.

    0-0
    c6

    d2
    c4

    This refinement supersedes the old 0-0-0. The idea


    is to prevent d5.
    9

    xd4

    Just how Black can attempt to thread his way to


    equality is not clear. Interesting

    is Donald Byrnes 9a5. The strongest reply is 10 g4


    and if 10
    e5 11
    e2 d5? 12 g5! wins a Pawn.
    10

    xd4

    11
    12

    b3
    0-0-0

    e6

    a5
    b5

    After 12
    xb3 13 cxb3! Black cannot make any at
    tacking headway against this particular Pawn
    configuration. White is lost in the King and Pawn
    ending, its true, but Black usually gets mated long
    before then. As Tarrasch put it: Before the endgame
    the gods have placed the middle game.
    13
    14

    b1
    d5

    b4

    Weaker is 14
    14

    e2

    xb3 15 cxb3

    fd8.

    xd5

    Bad judgment is 14
    xd5? 15
    xg7
    xg7 16 e
    xd5
    d7 17
    de1 with a crush- ing bind. (SuetinKorchnoi, USSR Championship prelims 1953.)
    15

    xd5

    Stronger is 15 exd5!
    b5 16
    he1 a5 17
    e2! (Ta
    l-Larsen, Zurich 1959) where White abandons the

    10

    attack and plays for pressure along the e-file


    instead.
    15

    ac8?

    The losing move. After the game Larsen explained


    he was playing for a win,
    and therefore rejected the forced draw with 15
    x
    d5 16
    xg7
    c3+ 17 bxc3 (17
    xc3 bxc3 18
    x
    c3
    xc3 19 bxc3
    fc8 renders Whites extra Pawn
    useless.) 17
    ab8! 18 cxb4
    xb4+! 19
    xb4
    xb4+ 20
    b2
    fb8, etc. After 15
    xd5, however
    , I in- tended simply 16 exd5
    xd5 17
    xb4, keepi
    ng the game alive.
    16

    b3!

    He wont get a second chance to snap of the Bishop!


    Now I felt the game was in the bag if I didnt botch it.
    Id won dozens of skittles games in analogous
    posi- tions and had it down to a science: pry open the
    h-file, sac, sac mate!
    16

    c7

    This loss of time is unfortunately necessary if Black


    is ever to advance his a- Pawn. 16
    b5? is refuted by 17
    xa7.
    17

    h4

    b5

    Theres no satisfactory way to impede Whites attac


    k. If 17h5 18 g4! hxg4 (18
    fc8 19
    dg1 hxg4 20 h5! gxh5 21 fxg4
    xe4 22
    f4 e5 2
    3
    xe4 exd4 24 gxh5
    h8 25 h6
    f6 26
    g7! wi
    ns) 19 h5! gxh5 (on 19
    xh5 20
    xg7
    xg7 21
    fxg4
    f6 22
    h6+ mates) 20 fxg4
    xe4 (on 20
    hxg4 21
    dg1 e5 22
    e3
    d8 23
    h6; or 20
    xg4 21
    dg1
    xd4 22
    xg4+! hxg4 23
    h6 lead
    s to mate) 21
    e3
    f6 (21 xd4 22
    xe4
    g
    7 23
    xh5) 22 gxh5 e5 23 h6 wins.

    11

    Now Black is threatening to get some counterplay


    with a5-a4.
    18
    h5!

    Theres no need to lose a tempo with the oldfashioned g4.


    18

    fc8

    On 18gxh5 19 g4! hxg4 20 fxg4!


    xe4 21
    g5 22
    xg7
    xg7 23
    d5
    c5 24
    h6+
    25
    xg5+
    xg5 26
    xh7 mate.
    19
    hxg6
    hxg6
    20

    g4

    h2
    g8

    Not the impatient 20


    xf6?
    xf6 21
    h6 e6! (thre
    atening
    e5) and Black holds everything.
    20

    a5
    Now Black needs just one more move to get his
    counterattack moving. But for the want of a nail the
    battle was lost
    21

    g5

    h5

    12

    Vasiukov suggests 21
    e8 as a possible defense (
    not 21a4? 22 gxf6 axb3 23 fxg7! bxc2+ 24
    xc2! e5 25
    h2 wins); but White crashes through wi
    th 22
    xg7 xg7 (22
    xg7? 23
    h2) 23
    h6!
    e6 (if 23a4 24
    h2
    h5 25
    xg6+) 24
    h2
    h5 25
    xe6! fxe6 (25
    xg5 26
    xg6+!
    xg6
    27
    xc8, threatening
    g1) 26
    xg6+ g7 27
    h
    1, etc.

    22

    xh5!

    Fine wrote: In such positions, combinations are as


    natural as a babys smile.
    22

    gxh5
    No better is 22
    xd4 23
    xd4 gxh5 24 g6
    e5
    (if 24e6 25
    xd6) 25 gxf7+ h7 (if 25
    f8 26
    xe5 dxe5 27
    g1 e6 28
    xe6
    e7 29
    xc8
    xc8 30
    g5 wins) 26
    d3! (intending f4) sho
    uld be decisive.
    23
    g6
    e5
    On 23e6 24 gxf7+
    xf7 (if 24
    xf7 25
    xe6) 25
    xg7
    xg7 26
    g1+
    h7 27
    g2
    e
    5 28
    g6+
    h8 29
    g5
    g7 30
    xh5+
    g8 3
    1
    xe6+
    f8 32
    f5+
    e7
    33
    f7+ wins.
    24
    25

    gxf7+
    e3

    f8
    d5!

    13

    A desperate bid for freedom. On 25a4 (if 25


    d8 26
    h6) 26
    xd6+
    e7 27
    d8+!
    xd8 2
    8
    xd8+
    e8 29
    c5+ mates.
    26
    exd5!

    Not 26
    xd5
    xc2!
    26

    xf7

    On 26a4 27 d6! axb3 28 dxc7 wins.


    27

    d6

    f6

    On 27
    d7 White can either regain the exchange
    with 28
    e6 or try for more with 28
    h6. And on 2
    7
    xf3 28 d7, threatening
    d6 mate.
    28

    g5

    b7

    On 28
    d7 29
    d5!
    f7 (if 29
    !) 30
    xf6 wins material.
    29
    30
    31

    xf6
    d7
    d6+

    A mistake! 31
    31

    f7 30

    e7+

    xf6
    d8

    h6+! forces mate in three.

    Black resigns

    3 Petrosian [ U.S.S.R. ] - Fischer


    Bear hug

    1958 KINGs INDIAN DEFENSE


    In what appear to be perfectly equal positions,
    Petrosian consistently finds seemingly innocuous
    moves which gradually overwhelm his opponent. He
    accomplishes his objective simply by exchanging
    pieces and maneuvering for victory without
    taking unnecessary risks. This essentially defensive
    technique has the virtue, when it doesnt utterly
    succeed, of producing a draw. Fischer, by contrast,
    generally chooses the sharpest course, however
    precipitous it may become. Occasionally he
    overreaches himself, but it makes for interesting che
    14

    ss. In this game, replete with errors on both sides,


    Petrosian succeeds in pinning his opponent for a
    time to a static endgame. But Fischer manages to
    burst his bonds,
    on- ly to blunder on the very next move (51
    d6)
    . Petrosian, however, by blundering in his turn,
    restores the balance. The ensuing Rook and Pawn
    ending produces a thrilling draw.

    15

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