Hi there in this venture, I'm going to introduce Bobby Fisher now, I am a big fan of Bobby Fischer.
I've done three courses on Fisher from different sections of his career.
And for me, even, you know, many, many years ago, I actually won quite a significant amount of
money as a junior by winning the Halifax with a perfect score, the Halifax north of England.
And one of the inspirations for like the final round was this Knight Sacrifice, which I got from Bobby
Fisher game.
But even years before that, I remember in a gentleman's eye being one of the strong juniors and which
which caused caused the stir.
But I remember, you know, my 94 in a sentence was also inspiration from Bobby Fischer.
So throughout periods of my own personal chess, if you study Bobby Fischer games, it will enrich your
chess.
So, yeah, I do recommend checking out my Fischer journey on on his key wins.
Now, here is one of my favorites.
Bobby Fischer wins.
So in a nutshell, though, let's just mention Bobby Fischer was an American chess grandmaster, so
he interrupted the Soviet domination for years and years and years.
You know, Russian grandmasters at the top of the game.
He interrupted that for a brief moment.
And so a chess prodigy at the age of 13, he won a game which was dubbed Game of the Century.
At age 14, he became the youngest ever US chess champion.
At age 15, he became both the youngest grandmaster upon to that time and the youngest candidate for
the world championship.
At age 20, he won the 1963 64 year championship with 11 wins and 11 games unheard of in history, the
only perfect score in the history of the tournament.
He won the 1970 in the Zone tournament by a record three and a half point margin, and he won twenty
consecutive games and lost seven rounds of the zonal and in the candidates matches.
So the latter, including two unprecedented six nil sweeps.
So one against time and one against Lawson.
And it was only Petrosian which put up some resistance.
And then he went on to play Boris Spassky in 1972 to that epic match was dubbed Match of the Century,
as opposed to game of the century when as a kid, anyone that brilliant game as a little kid.
So I find him a remarkably instructive, universal style player free of any real controversy.
In fact, so much so that he's actually one of the most accurate world champions.
Even if you check his game with modern engines, you'll be shocked at the accuracy levels.
So is kind of universal.
There's there's not such an evident bias if you have biases.
You know, I mentioned I'll mention again that each world champion, you know, usually has a set of
biases, preferences, but a bias can be a weakness.
The more universal a player is, like Fisher, you know, it's like they're flowing like water.
They don't have these biases, which could be weaknesses.
So for me is an absolutely brilliant plan to study.
And he certainly ignites my game and supercharges my results.
And in fact, I have to say, in all honesty, since doing a thorough investigation of his wins, if
you check out my courses, my confidence in online chess at least as well, skyrocketed.
Skyrocketed, which is why, you know, this whole section, we can learn from all the world champions
and I'll go through them all and learn what you can, because it's only going to improve all the skill
sets when opening the game and game.
It's going to improve your knowledge of pawn structures, tactical ideas, positional ideas, psychology.
And also, I have to say, you know, a win probability, the world champions, except for Petrosian,
we're very, very good at winning games.
I mean, tourism's very good at not losing, actually.
Yeah.
If you want to know about not losing.
But other than that, most of them are very, very good at maximizing their win probability.
If you do a detailed investigation, navigate through that Thomlinson, who they were actually playing,
you'll see that this adaptation occurs or even first time, which was that sometimes switch towards
anything to maximize their win probability.
But you need evidence and reassurance and you need reassurance of your own ideas sometimes.
And if you go over Fisher games, I think it's a remarkable learning experience.
So anyway, so this is one of my favorites, Robert Byrne.
So the two brothers, very, very good chess players.
So Fischer plays 96 to Robert Burns.
Defoe So this is in the.
In 60, for us to sit around, Frank, see for at least six Jeoffrey C6, so Fisher is not constructing
his usual kings' engine setup.
He actually doesn't mind going in for a symmetrical structure.
And you might think, how can there be that many winning chances here?
King's Cross.
You talked about winning publicity about why has he then he elected asymmetrical pawns, trying to show
quite often in world championship matches, the symmetrical pawn structures often end in drawers.
That's true.
But Fischer is about to do an amazing, remarkable trade off in its own right from a pawn structure
perspective.
He plays six and there are old differences in possession.
It's not as if the piece placement is identical.
So Winesap -- is free.
It's there.
It's not blocking in the form.
And on this occasion and we have actually this bishop going to that diagonal and want mirrors that and
we see rookie AIDS.
And now, quickly to now, things get very, very interesting, it seems White's whole setup is designed
against Fisher being active and being active here.
If I would result, surely in the dreaded isolated Queen's born in this position, surely White's in
a great position to dissuade, discourage E5.
Nevertheless, Fisher uses very fine judgments.
There's very fine judgment needed.
Sometimes when you make poor structure decisions between how weak a pawn structure is, how effectively
weak can actually be exploited by the opponent or not, and the dynamic potential in terms of the activity
of pieces it generates.
And some people have argued, you know, chess is all about activity.
Not necessarily.
So if you look at both champions like Anatoly Karpov, you know, great structuralists of the game,
Karpoff, someone said, you know, if you create weaknesses, they will often win games just based
on your weaknesses by slowly but surely and slowly reducing your counterplay.
But here, Fischer takes a risk and he accepts the isolated queens form and he generates a surge of
peace activity so detainees is played.
If Rook FC won instead he takes he takes.
This situation is interesting and black can use that hook, which is a part of the Ice Queen's phone,
to get a position which should be a small edge for black as an example.
So if we look at that again, a branch or two.
So here sort of Bishop Taizé, one official before then again, black is also in an interesting position.
So Rook takes a one, you know, rookie once this gets to be a very this is all a bit crazy.
This is crazy stuff.
So anyway, details is played.
So we have an isolated Queen's Ball emerging 1965.
So you can see structurally this doesn't look entirely, you know, solid.
So the notion of solid, if it's not, it's something I've always wondered about.
But sometimes you can balance solid looking pawn structures versus peace activity.
You know, sometimes you just want peace activity, not necessarily a solid looking position.
We have Rook at one and this is the wrong rook.
It kind of weakens after after is not entirely solid.
If the other rook had been used, then, you know, this would be very, very interesting if the other
rook had been used Rook 81, for example, this position.
But even so, you know, even if Blatt loses that, the five, you know, it's not that clear cut at
all.
Things are not that clear cut.
You know, things can get dangerous like this.
For example, this is just a fictional variation where black might actually have a small edge.
So things are not entirely clear how we work any one.
But in the game, there is a kind of weakness for the last of this rook is used that is kind of weakening
F2.
So bear that in mind.
Ninety three and we see now Quincy too.
And this was literally an inspiration for one on one, you know, many, many years ago.
Halifax, this next move is that final round that I mentioned.
So Black's play here plays a real dismantling move.
I wonder if you can guess.
So it's been a pawn trying to take out its base, its nine Saints F2, and you might think, OK, but
where is the war?
Exactly what exactly is going on here?
We see 94 check on its sacrifice.
The Knights sacrificing a night for two pawns, hitting queen and bishop and rook.
And surely Black's intention is to take the rook.
So the staggering thing about this game, and this is what gives you no games of high drama where you
hear about the reaction of grandmasters during the actual game really have a profound impact on me.
And in fact, you know, this is one such game where we hear that the commentators at the time, the
grandmasters in the commentary box, but this game was being played for, you know, sure was absolutely.
Bustan would be resigning very, very shortly because he was absolutely busted.
They were expecting 1961.
So this is the whole beauty of chess.
It's like many great even grandmasters were just kind of tourists.
We don't really understand the true resources of possessions, the true dynamic potential.
One of my three golden rules, which, you know, weakness of the last movie square liberation or facts,
you know, Liberacion or Fang's a shortcut to it is imagining perhaps certain pawns are missing if you
imagine certain pawns and missing.
Then what would be the impact of that, you know, here this tribunal could be sensitive, right?
And in fact, Fisher takes out instead of taking the rook, he takes out a key defensive bishop.
If he takes out the rook, sure, he's going to be worse.
The grandmasters, Roy Black, is simply worse in this position.
You know, this position is not great.
You know, it's going to be difficult, it's going to be far, far more difficult than what was paid,
if default is actually an interesting move to offer the exchange like this, because, again, if one
ever takes, then there's one square weaknesses in one's camp and black could end up getting an advantage
like this, for example.
So this is an exotic variation, by the way fish played.
It's just it's just absolutely divine, you know, in my view, 1962, we have king tides.
So Liberacion, think about Liberacion.
Think about what states as pawns and pieces really are the fundamental constraints on the pieces.
So this is actually a constraint, this pawn.
Fisheries maximizing peace activity, relevant peace activity for these weaknesses around once King
and plays the magical move for unleashing the power of this bishop without a counterpart.
Now on those late squares and in fact, of the 1964 Bishop seven Jack King, Antwone Fisher plays a
quiet little move and it causes weight to resign.
I wonder if you can guess what that is if I give you five cents for the video.
OK, it's Quinsy seven, Frattini's Queen H3 with devastating effects, there's actually no way to kind
of handle this.
The game ended here if ninety five.
The point is Czech and here there's a key move.
Can you see what the key forcing move is?
Which would be absolutely devastating, because if we look at this, the king's escape squares will
be taken out, which is a very, very bad sign, especially with Bisher, without any counterpart.
Bishop, it's a very, very bad sign.
So you just need some time to find the killer check.
And it comes from Bishop Eighty-six hitting the queen with tempo and wanting to come into the fray.
So it's Quincy to Bishop.
If this is just going to be, you know, checkmates, forget winning the queen.
But if we look at this again, there's other beautiful variations.
If Queen F2 to her queen is retracting Jiwon, there's an absolutely amazing magical resource here which
Fisher himself was keen to see played out at the board.
I wonder if you can see it if you check all charts.
So five seconds, pause, video.
What would you play in this position?
You want to sort of gain access when access to squares, which is a lot of what chance is about winning
access to squares, being a hacker on the chess board, how can you gain access to G to her as a common
square?
OK, rookie one check, it's beautiful, it's absolutely beautiful if Queen takes then queen due to
his charm.
And the point is on Route 21, we playing Bishop 64, penning the queen to the king.
So the queen takes queen due to his checkmate through Kifri, which is going to take there.
And you know, it's going to be Chien-Ming instead of queen.
After we look at King Jiwon, then queen entering.
Right here, Washbasins, again, you know, I mean, we've had to look at that.
Instead of throwing instead of 95, 95, that's but that's just taking five, we just take you know,
it's going to be willing to overlook how it's a very, very desperate scenario.
So it's just shocking that this little move caused his resignation.
And whilst the grandma was just like two or three minutes before or thinking, you know, she's going
to resign.
But we see in this game also that debate between the balance, the fine balance between pawn structure
and its solidity versus the peace activity can generate.
So sometimes even sort of ugly looking pawn structures like, you know, I like Queens wall double pawns
back because they all can have these functionalities to give them the pieces activity.
And if that activity is very directed towards King's safety issues in particular, that can often be
a knockout blow.
So we do get big letters, big lessons about peace activity from phishers, dynamic use of pawn structures.
He doesn't mind if his pawn structures are sometimes seemingly non solid.
He's looking at the functionality.
He's looking at the peace activity and the commendatory possibilities that could result.
OK, so I hope you enjoyed this iconic game example from Bobby Fischer and maybe check out my other
courses on Fischer if you want more detail.
I think, you know, he's one of the most instructive world champions and definitely has supercharged
my confidence, being more systematic and strict and looking at all of his key wins.
OK, pretty much.