Fischer - Tal 1960

The following game is a draw, but what a draw!

Fischer plays white against Mikhail Tal who was the World Champion in 1960-1961. Tal was a wild attacking player and famous for his incredible sacrifices. "The Magician of Riga" is still considered by many as the greatest attacking player of all times.

Fischer and Tal played eleven games against each other. Tal won four, Fischer two, and five games were drawn.

Keres - Fischer 1959

Paul Keres (1916-1975) is the greatest Estonian player of all times. He belonged to the world elite since the 1930s when he won the AVRO tournament in 1938. Still today, Paul Keres is a famous figure in Estonia, where people see his portrait every day on the local banknote of five kroons.

Fischer demonstrates here how to play and win against the London System.

Fischer - Geller 1961

This game is another white win by Bobby Fischer. The black was Efim Geller (1925-1998), who was during his best years of the best players in the world. He won twice the USSR Championship (in 1955 and 1979), six times a candidate for world championship, four times champion of Ukraina, twice seniors' world champion. Furthermore, he coached both Boris Spassky and Anatoly Karpov.

This game was played in Bled in 1961.

Fischer - Najdorf 1962

Bobby Fischer played very often variations with Bc4 against the Sicilian defence. In this game, he chooses another system to combat the Najdorf Sicilian played by Miguel Najdorf himself.

This time we see the system with 6. h3 in action. Many class players around the world still use this system to fight the Najdorf. It can't be bad if our hero decided to use it against Najdorf!

Fischer - Larsen 1958

Fischer beats Bent Larsen in 31 moves playing white against Sicilian Dragon in this game played in the interzonal tournament in Portoroz, Yugoslavia. Thirteen years later they would play in the semifinal for the world championship. Fischer famously won that match 6-0!

Fischer - Reshevsky 1958

This is a game young Bobby Fischer won with white against Samuel Reshevsky, one of the best western players of the era. Bishop sacrifice on move 10 is something to remember!



Even in case of 10. ...Rxf7 or Kh8, Ne6 wins the black queen!

Fischer - Euwe 1960

In this game, Bobby Fischer wins against former world champion Max Euwe playing Panov-Botvinnik attack (B14) against Caro-Kann defense.

Robert James Fischer (1943-2008)

Robert James "Bobby" Fischer (1943-2008) was the eleventh world champion (1972-1975) in chess. He is widely recognized as one of the greatest chess players ever. This blog is dedicated to grandmaster Bobby Fischer and his games.

Play through the games played by our hero in five decades both against world class opponents and against lesser players. Become a better player following him like thousands of chess players have done before you!