Bobby Fischer slays Larsen’s Dragon in 31 moves
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- Featured is a Round 8 game from the Portoroz Interzonal of 1958. It was played between Bobby Fischer and Bent Larsen on August 16th. Larsen played the Dragon variation of the Sicilian Defense. By move 15, Larsen would have to answer the following: "should I capture Fischer's king-bishop and expose my own to capture?" Larsen's chosen path allowed Fischer to maintain what would soon become a star piece in the game. Fischer's king-bishop was an offensive and defensive juggernaut who acted as a catalyst for a kingside attack.
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1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Bg7
7. f3 O-O 8. Qd2 Nc6 9. Bc4 Nxd4 10. Bxd4 Be6 11. Bb3 Qa5
12. O-O-O b5 13. Kb1 b4 14. Nd5 Bxd5 15. Bxd5 Rac8 16. Bb3 Rc7
17. h4 Qb5 18. h5 Rfc8 19. hxg6 hxg6 20. g4 a5 21. g5 Nh5
22. Rxh5 gxh5 23. g6 e5 24. gxf7+ Kf8 25. Be3 d5 26. exd5 Rxf7
27. d6 Rf6 28. Bg5 Qb7 29. Bxf6 Bxf6 30. d7 Rd8 31. Qd6+
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wow, only 564,120 hours between the game and the analysis. very impressive Jerry.
Nice one! 😃
wait til you hear about jerry's analysis of Morphy games
You can even reflect on how scarce figures like Fischer are, that even so many time after the game was played, people still care about teaching and learning his games.
Rumor has it that before his match vs Fischer, he used to be known as Straight Larsen.
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In 1958, Bobby was only 15 years old, and the Portoroz Interzonal was his first international event. No doubt, Larsen was counting a win vs one ot the "lesser lights" in the tourney, which led him to eschew the continuation at move 14 to secure a drawn rook ending. Of course, Fischer showed that he was no "weakie," finishing in the top 6, qualifying for the Candidate's Tournament and earning the GM title in the process. This game is a "coming of age" moment.
I really missed uploads like this one. I love Jerry’s analysis
Thank you for taking the time to go through so many variations and alternate move analysis. It is much appreciated!
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Your videos are very instructive. Thanks for this great content.
Thank you
Outstanding analysis. Excellent delivery.
Hi Jerry it's everyone, glad to see you back with more reviews 😊
I remember this game being printed a lot in the 70s. Very popular post Fischer boom. Great commentary.
12 years later the USSR vs the World event happened where Larsen insisted on playing Board 1 (ahead of Fischer). For possibly the first time ever Fischer deferred and agreed to this. Karma would bite the Dane a year later!!
I like pretty much most of your content, but it was your briliant game analysis what got me hooked into chess content years ago; that's what you excel at in the eyes of mine and many others, hope to see even more in the future.
jerry uploaded, its a festivus miracle!
I am a simple man. I see an upload from Jerry, I click on it. 🙂
Edit: This game was mentioned in Fischer´s "My 60 memeroable games", wasn´t it?
I’ve spent so much of my youth with this Fischer book that your talking about - I’ll check if this game there when I’ll be at home 😊
@@orrimoch5226 I think it's game 4. Quite near the beginning anyway. Amazing to see the tail to tape, really an extremely objective game by Fischer. [edit: game 2 , ... was close :)]
Yes. I'm reading "Bobby Fischer Rediscovered" by Soltis which has another 40 games in addition to the original 60 games. I just reviewed this game using the book. Amazing game by young Bobby!
very instructive as usual. that light squared bishop in an e4 based opening is generally “the bad bishop” but here with the black king on a light square the “bad bishop” was the best piece😂
also thought it was interesting how posting the white king on b1 made it so rook captures on c2 even with support doesn’t come with check; that little king scoot matters when you go queenside in the Sicilian
Watching this before my first rating tournament.
Good luck 👍
@@bradcole1151 thanks buddy
Get em’ 😎
@@ChessNetwork Sure and love this reply💜
I wish I knew how to tournament
Very well done. Thank you.
Excellent commentary and analysis of variations!!!
Solid content as always Jerry, you're a legend
Great video again. Very instructive. Thank you
whenever jerry uploads the first thing i do is like the video. then watch it
R.I.P. Bobby, you were the greatest.
Thanks Jerry!
Merry Christmas
Awesome game and great breakdown. The approach that Fischer takes this game is so very simple but the tactics are just wild! Such a very sharp game.
A nice and clear explanations of the variations from the game.
Loved the game coverage!
thank you for keeping up bringing out content , easily my fav chess channel out of all of"em
Awesome. Merry Christmas, Jerry!
Many thanks for series of videos!
those vidoes give me ttremendous improvement in terms of tactical vision and pattern
I hope you make more vidoes like this.
Thanks for analising!
Be7 was a very pretty mate. Thanks Jerry I hope you and yours have a great Christmas.
Good Lord. Brutal.
Fischer could wield both the scalpel and the scabbard.
Thanks again, Jerry and Merry Christmas.
@chessnetwork Hey Jerry, looks like a spambot is trying to spoof you in the comments.
I just started learning Chess and found your channel. Such good analysis. Thank you!
Thank you
No one can explain chess like you ❤️
Amazing slaying of the" Dragon," !! Thanks for sharing!!
Beautiful game! I just read about this game in the book" Bobby Fischer Rediscovered" by Soltis. I'm very lucky to find it in your channel as well. Thank you for the review! Cheers!
Great analysis 👍
Thank you, Jerry.
Awesome video!
Good call kept it light and humorous Great Game decisive win
ChessNetwork is a true teacher of Chess.
Bad news, Jerry. Sounds like Magnus is pretty much property of chesscom now, so we may never get another Lichess titled arena with Dr Nykterstein.
TY GM!
Your analyses are most lucid of all.
Thank you for the compliment.
Don't know but it's like Fisher's every move is confident in every game❤
It always amazes me how often Fischer was able to get such dominant positions so fast in so many games, against the best players in the world. Yes, Fischer provoked an inaccuracy by move 15, but 2 or 3 moves earlier, Larsen was already facing unpleasant choices.
There is nothing "unpleasant" with Black's position up to move 15.
The line that Jerry mentioned (15...Nxd5 16.Bxg7 Nc3+!) was played a few months after the Fischer- Larsen game by Yugoslav GM Petar Trifunovic, and it is still considered as a perfectly good way for Black to equalize effortlessly - e.g. Anish Giri advocates this line in his recent Dragon book, and he even claims that Black may play on if he likes so.
In this game Larsen was following the standard or main approach from black's perspective in the Dragon. They didn't have computer engines back then to tell them which was the absolute best opening sequence. It often took a lot of trial and error to sort out which opening lines were best.
more fantastic content from jerry
I have Little idea what's going on. God bless you, Jerry, for walking me through it.
thanks, jerry!
Powerful game😊
'Pry open the H file, sac, sac mate' or 'get there firstest with the mostest'
I missed you Jerry 😮
There will never be another Fischer. Never. Ever.
And another Jerry.
@Ray Lant what
Or another magnus.
There is only one chess OG.
appreciate jerry uploading
but why is it always fischer or carlsen, don't forget the others, plus loads of kasparov vs karpov gems are untouched on youtube
Jerry you were one of the people who inspired me to play OTB. Got my USCF rating back in May. Currently 1600 but beat my first 2000 rated player a few weeks ago. Playing the U1700 North American Open.
Any chance you’ll be out there?
Awesome. I won’t be there no. Good luck 👍
How did it go?
Fun fact: Alexei Shirov has in 2021 improved upon Fischer's opening by meeting b4 with Bxe6! Since bxc3 Bxc3 wins a tempo on black's queen, white is keeping the strong light squares bishop as in this game but not allowing Nxd5, equalizing. Against b4 Bxe6, fxe6 is best but now after Ne2, white keeps a lot of pieces on the board and can play for the usual sac-sac-mate.
Black is supposed to play for draw initially ,play for when opportunity offered.Thanks for some beautiful explanations especially queen sacrifice by white.
you are the best
Chess Network... I love you, but anime fischer thumbnail crosses a line.
Hey Jerry, gothamchess just did a video on Stockfish beating other engines at fisher random chess. Some of the games had some really, really wild opening ideas, and I'd like to hear your more in depth analysis on what makes those ideas possible
that bishop was insane. lol.
Didn't Fischer say in relation to this (or a similar game), "I don't believe in dragons".
Maybe, maybe not......but Fischer shoulda said it.... such a great line..
Bobby Fischer the Goat in chess nobody else until now
very pretty!
@ 8:56 why isn't the queen taking the diagonal approach to h8 cell? Just began playing and want to know what would happen there?
ITS protected from the rook on c8
More videos like this please
Man, you were making great content before it was cool. You deserve to be on Agadmator's level because it was indeed a nice analysis. You both should do a Colab!
Next video: Fischer vs Komodo dragon engine
15:16 Fischer probably considered g6 to be an inaccuracy 😂
light squared bishop in sicilian is scary !
Another solid one Jerry
Congrats on 500k
2 things
Have you considered upgrading your board to something more modern looking.
I also use those pieces but the board looks old. It's not necessarily bad but switching it up might be good.
2. A video on isolated pawn and hanging pawn structures
Thanks for all you do.
Love you Jerry
In the few games I’ve watched of Fishers, he seems like to like pinning in pieces, and also he will quickly move himself out of those positions when his opponent does it.
Bobby was the best
I’d love to last 30 moves against Fischer.
1:01... there's Larsen's first blunder. He should have moved his knight to a5 to attack that white bishop. it would be forced to abandon c4 or b3 or get captured.
14:15 Saw that immediately, so I will now let everyone know I am confirmed better than Bobby Fischer (ignoring the fact that I would never have played well enough to get to this position in a live game)
Which program you use my friend please 😊
Merry CHirstmas
According to the description, it‘s called Blitzin by the internet chess club. I won‘t drop a link because i distrust CZcamss spam-filter but google should be able to help you out
Hi Jerry.
I'm surprised Fischer was confident in getting away with having the bishop sitting there on D5, how to explain that?
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What year is this
@@tehjargonz0r
Know Your Meme
2002
what app is this?
ICC
Lichess
GM Larsen went by his second name, 'Bent'. So this game could be called "Get Bent".
Nice
AI art?
Why did Bobby Fischer stop playing chess?
He said he was tired of the "Bobby Fischer price" of always being "checkmated"!
9 moves and I would have beat him Boys and Germs...
...My Graph of Wins on Red Hot Pawn was Impressive considering I was always Pissed when I logged In...
fax^^^^^
by 1958, Bobby was already a powerhouse at age 18. I'd love to see the established masters of the day reacting to his early successes
Fischer was born in 1943. In 1958 he was 15, not 18.
Not only was Fischer just 15 years old, but this was his first international event. He was not yet a GM, earning the title by finishing 6th in this Interzonal and qualiflying for the 8-man candidate's tournament.
@@jackm4457 . Tal won this event and went on to become world champion. Not bad company to be in.
Bent got bent.
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Let the game play, comment on a second run through.
No thanks
@@ChessNetwork Why not?
Seems counterintuitive
@@lawan740 Yes, he could just post a long list of moves like e4, e6, etc and have us just read the moves that way. Boy wouldn't that be fun?
@@TruthSurge No thanks. Less than 5% of chess players can indulge in it.
Jerry’s format is quite embracing as is.
Perfecto.
Hikaru would wreck these guys. Terrible.
hikaru mostly memorizes moves that these guys found. Hikaru also memorises computer-moves.
Fischer or capablanca or Morphy is the most talented player ever.
You are mostly correct, high level chess is a lot of memorization. Chess players are not particalarly smart or dumb, just regular people that practiced efficiently and got better.
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It's a different era, ffs. Of course he would have destroyed them. Just like Fischer would have destroyed chess players from 1910. You compare players against contemporaries. And Fischer was much more dominant over his contemporaries than Hikaru is over his.
@@scottwarren4998 people say this about Carlsen too. All top players memorize openings. But modern day players also play better middle and end games. Not all of that is memorization. Modern chess players also play more games against better competition and learn more themes.
@mike collins after what hikaru did against rapport in the blitz tournament yesterday I cant say anything nice about him. It was disgusting. Salana deserved to beat him and Magnus rightfully took the title away from hikaru.
Play is rough in this fischer-larsen game though, by todays standards. Anna cramling could probably beat these guys.
You don't sound very happy while making these videos my friend.
You’re hearing the voice of a concentrated mind for videos of this type.
Great sleep aide omg
These are not Instagram videos for dummies
The Voice is monotonous ! Analysis is over shadowed by the verbose narration
Its probably good videos.. but the lack of enthusiasm, the dead-sounding voice makes watching ur videos unhealthy
maybe you've been brainwashed into wanting to hear loud, spastic, childish commentaries by watching too many loud, spastic, childish commentaries? Talking calmly and naturally is what ADULTS usually do when trying to EXPLAIN something. Reading your misspelled words such as "ur" is unhealthy.
It's better like this is calming
He does make good videos... if you need more enthusiasm then go watch teletubbies or whatever;)
Don't let the door ht you in the butt as you leave. Jerry's narration and teaching are first class. Have fun at the children's table, this table is for chess lovers and chess learners.
Great analysis. Voice is TERRIBLE--needs spice.
7.24 there ist a short laughter. But even if you don`t enjoy the voice, you may agree it`s the best graphics of all chess presentations.
you just need to fall into his sultry groooove man.
I care mildly about chess at most, Jerry’s relaxed and soothing explanation of the games is what keeps bringing me back here. Hard disagree! To each their own.
You can increase the speed if you want him to talk faster.
Jerry let's the "chess speak for itself."
Stop using the word "slay"
Why? It fits perfectly in this context i.e. slaying a dragon.
You cannot deny Darkseid!! Hahahaha
You can't understand the game because you keep talkin
maybe you can't understand the game because you aren't THINKING.
Bent Larsen vs Bobby Fischer. 31 moves. This was a great game, but chess videos don’t present games, as far as I’ve been able to determine over the years. Showing alternative histories, and discussing possible alternative moves, is not chess, it is not the presentation of a game. Kibbitzing is an idiotic thing. Games are played, moves have the sense of “being played”. Nothing of what you presented is chess. All the alternatives you showed lost the history of the game, Bobby was no longer playing his game, and Bent was no longer playing his, what you showed was a lot of silly nonsense, some sort of analysis based on a perspective of seeing the game history which is false. I learned this game long ago the right way, according to its script, according to which there is no alternative. Life can’t be some other way than the way it is played, because life occurs in the present tense. You must follow the moves as they occur, and only as they occur, for that is not just games, but physics, and the history of all possible known or knowable things. Everything is determined, and being determined, is occurrence, for there is a history to moves being played, which is not the occurrence of moves, but of the being of particles- the occurrence of a particle. The meaning is, the occurrence is the GAME itself, its pieces,-That it to say, the board-, is what occurs. In physics, occurrence is relativity, the spacetime continuum equals the occurrence of history. What it means is, present a game so that we can enjoy it, because the meaning to be derived from a game is not analysis but reflection, the satisfaction of seeing Bobby triumph, is the meaning of the game, just as the meaning of life, is looking back on your experiences, and being contented with how you played, not because some other way would have been wrong, but because you played your game, according to your terms, you lived your life, your own way. That is the satisfaction of the game, I lived life well, because I did it my way. Next time, just talk about features of Bobby’s game.
Probably the most pompous thing I've ever read, hopefully that was an attempt at satire. That being said I do think your point which could have been expressed in 2 sentences is valid, seems to me that analysis gets a bit much nowadays, maybe just cause I'm not at all a high level player but I find it's hard to follow the actual original game when every 2 moves there's an alternative variation presented for clarification.
I thought the analysis in this video is quite nice.
He is showing both lmao what are you crying about? He explains other lines that could have changed the outcome of the game, that is literally how _all_ chess study works
If all you want is a list of played moves, you're in tne wrong place. Just download the game file. If your point is that the flow of the game is interrupted by too many variations, there may be some validithy to that. When a chess engine is constantly showing the analyst the best line, it is very tempting to show what the player missed. It can be overdone.
Imagine being this arrogant and still being dead wrong