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Chess Master Sat, Dec 4, 1971 – 23 · Times Colonist (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada) · Newspapers.com
Chess Master by George Koltanowski Saturday, December 04, 1971 Times Colonist Victoria, British Columbia,...
Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Friday, November 27, 2020
Problem by Edouard Barthelemy, France. White to play and mate in two moves.
FEN 8/KN3Q2/1pkN1pr1/6q1/P3p1p1/2B4n/8/2R4b w - - 0 1
Key: N-K8/Ne8
A Bad Start
Petrosian did not fare quite so well in the first game of the Candidates' Finals in Buenos Aires. There his role and that of Bobby Fischer appeared reversed. Fischer playing solid chess and Petrosian attacking chess.
Robert James Fischer vs Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian Fischer - Petrosian Candidates Final (1971), Buenos Aires ARG, rd 1, Sep-30 Sicilian Defense: Paulsen. Szen Variation (B44) 1-0 https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1044350
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nb5 d6 6. Bf4 e5 7. Be3 Nf6 8. Bg5 Be6(a) 9. N1c3 a6 10. Bxf6 gxf6(b) 11. Na3 d5(c) 12. exd5(d) Bxa3 13. bxa3 Qa5 14. Qd2 O-O-O 15. Bc4 Rhg8 16. Rd1 Bf5 17. Bd3 Bxd3 18. Qxd3 Nd4 19. O-O Kb8 20. Kh1 Qxa3 21. f4 Rc8 22. Ne4 Qxd3 23. cxd3 Rc2 24. Rd2 Rxd2 25. Nxd2 f5 26. fxe5 Re8 27. Re1 Nc2 28. Re2 Nd4 29. Re3 Nc2 30. Rh3 Rxe5 31. Nf3 Rxd5 32. Rxh7 Rxd3 33. h4 Ne3 34. Rxf7 Rd1+ 35. Kh2 Ra1 36. h5 f4 37. Rxf4 Rxa2 38. Re4 Nxg2 39. Kg3 Ra5 40. Ne5 1-0(e)
(a) Something different. In the first Fischer-Taimanov match, Black played 8 … Q-R4ch.
(b) Cannot play 10. … QxB, as 11. N-B7ch follows.
(c) Petrosian makes a pawn sacrifice in the opening …!
(d) Fischer took close to half an hour on this move.
(e) Black's game has blown a fuse … Not only does he lose his Knight, but to stop White's Rook's pawn from queening will cost him the Rook as well.
