Part II
I'm not too sure about Fischer recalling all these games and page numbers
from Spassky's best games.
This is the sort stupid thing I did. Not him ,what would be the point?
I did to impress friends for a laugh, he played chesss and impressed the planet.
The man is surrounded by more myths than the Lewis pieces.
Fischer got the Spassky files from Bob Wade.
These were all Spassky games from 1955-1970 (from memory the exact years and
I have already pointed out how dodgy it is).
These were bound in loose leaf ring binders and it's is these that Bobby
would have dived into looking for holes.
Not much point in looking at there best games is there.
You want to study the grimy stuff the not so good games.
This gives you an idea of his amazing memory.
Well documented with source details.
http://www.howtoadvice.com/Chess/BobbyFischer
Capablanca.
As WW says loads of myths about this lad too.
Esepcially about him when he 4 years old and learning the game.
However, he was one gifted player, more so than other in history.
He did study the game but some of the stuff he played when he was young
had not been seen before so what was he studying?
Certainly not the openings as he often played placid safe variations,
his middlegame to endgame technique took over and he wrote the book on that.
His game as a 12 year old v Juan Corzo is incredible and according to
Chernev it only took him 42 minutes.
Capa is White.
[Event "Havana"]
[Site "Havana"]
[Date "1901.??.??"]
[Round "11"]
[White "Jose Raul Capablanca"]
[Black "Juan Corzo"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[EventDate "?"]
[ECO "D02"]
[PlyCount "119"]
1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 c5 3. e3 Nc6 4. b3 e6 5. Bb2 Nf6 6. Nbd2 cxd4 7. exd4 Bd6 8. Bd3 O-O 9. O-O Nh5 10. g3 f5 11. Ne5 Nf6 12. f4 Bxe5 13. fxe5 Ng4 14.Qe2 Qb6 15. Nf3 Bd7 16. a3 Kh8 17. h3 Nh6 18. Qf2 Nf7 19. Kg2 g5 20. g4 Ne7 21. Qe3 Rg8 22. Rae1 Ng6 23. gxf5 Nf4+ 24. Kh2 Nxd3 25. Qxd3 exf5 26. c4 Qe6 27. cxd5 Qxd5 28. e6 Bb5 29. Qxb5 Qxb5 30. d5+ Rg7 31. exf7 h6 32. Nd4 Qxf1 33. Rxf1 Rxf7 34. Rxf5 Rxf5 35. Nxf5+ Kh7 36. Ne7 Rf8 37. Kg2 h5 38.d6 g4 39. hxg4 hxg4 40. Be5 Kh6 41. d7 Rd8 42. Ng8+ Rxg8 43. Bf6 Kg6 44.d8=Q Rxd8 45. Bxd8 b5 46. Kf2 Kf5 47. Ke3 Ke5 48. Kd3 Kd5 49. Kc3 g3 50.Bh4 g2 51. Bf2 a5 52. b4 Ke4 53. Bb6 Kd5 54. Kd3 Kc6 55. Bg1 Kd5 56. Bh2 Kc6 57. Kd4 a4 58. Ke5 Kb6 59. Kd5 Ka6 60. Kc5
I was reading some good stuff about Juan Corzo and his playing
strength on Winter's site.
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/corzo.html