Tuesday, October 1, 2019

I just played a chess game against someone in Ukraine. I found something interesting in his Lichess profile.

Google Translate is my friend.

Олександр
Улюблений шахист Роберт Джеймс Фішер

Alexander
Favorite chess player Robert James Fisher

Bobby Fischer is also my favorite chess player. I studied several of his games. Fischer was a big deal in America when he won the World Chess Championship in 1972.

"Fischer won the World Chess Championship in 1972, defeating Boris Spassky of the USSR, in a match held in Reykjavík, Iceland. Publicized as a Cold War confrontation between the USA and USSR, it attracted more worldwide interest than any chess championship before or since."

Wikipedia - Bobby Fischer

Robert James Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. Many consider him to be the greatest chess player of all time.[2][3]

Fischer showed great skill in chess from an early age; at 13, he won a brilliancy known as "The Game of the Century". At age 14, he became the US Chess Champion, and at 15, he became both the youngest grandmaster (GM) up to that time and the youngest candidate for the World Championship. At age 20, Fischer won the 1963/64 US Championship with 11 wins in 11 games, the only perfect score in the history of the tournament. His book My 60 Memorable Games, published in 1969, is regarded as essential reading. He won the 1970 Interzonal Tournament by a record 3½-point margin, and won 20 consecutive games, including two unprecedented 6–0 sweeps, in the Candidates Matches. In July 1971, he became the first official FIDE number-one-rated player.

Quotes

All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.

I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves.

I like the moment when I break a man's ego.

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One more thing. This was my game against the Ukrainian. I should have lost but he tried something that didn't work and so I was able to win it. I had the Black pieces.

https://lichess.org/ISCNrr4q/black

My Lichess profile

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