10 April 2011

Chess: Who wants to argue with Bobby Fischer?

Chess: Who wants to argue with Bobby Fischer?: "Fischer's famous attack on the King's Gambit is interesting – but a long way from a refutation. In 1961 Bobby Fischer wrote 'A Bust to the King's Gambit', a now famous article in which he set out, in typically uncompromising language, to do exactly as the title says. His idea was to play 1 e4 e5 2 f4 exf4 3 Nf3 d6, avoiding the Kieseritsky variation (3...g5 4 h4 g4 5 Ne5) which Spassky had used to defeat him a couple of years before. The diagram position arises after 3...d6 4 d4 g5 5 h4 g4 6 Ng1 Bh6 and here Fischer claims that White has 'no compensation' for the pawn. RB: Who wants to argue with Bobby Fischer? And you can see his point. With White's pieces all on ..."

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