Who is standing next to Bobby? 🙂
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Who is standing next to Bobby? 🙂
Reshevsky again.
My first guess is Sammy Reshevsky. he looks kind of short here.
I wonder if Bobby in this game was going to play the King’s Indian or Grunfeld?
I’m not sure about Reshevski, but Bobby plays Grunfeld for sure.
I agree -> Reshevsky
Sammy Reshevsky
I agree too -> Grunfeld
>>I agree too -> Grunfeld
Why is everyone saying the Gruenfeld? Just because they like the Gruenfeld, or is there some evidence that suggests that?
The evidence seems to go the other way to me. This is obviously 1970, and Fischer’s opponent doesn’t look like Petrosian, Spassky, or Mecking, therefore it couldn’t have been a Gruenfeld.
This is almost certainly from the Siegen Olympiad. By checking the matchups on days where Reshevsky had White and Fischer Black, and then eliminating all the results involving players that I know aren’t in the picture, there are only two possibilities. One of them can be eliminated immediately, since that game was a Benoni, leaving us with the answer that the game in question is Uhlmann-Fischer 1970 (from behind, Fischer’s opponent does look a bit like Uhlmann), with Reshevsky playing Burkhard Malich on the next board.
Here’s the game, and sure enough, it’s a King’s Indian:
[Event “Siegen ol (Men) qual-C”]
[Site “Siegen”]
[Date “1970.09.05”]
[Round “9”]
[White “Uhlmann,Wolfgang”]
[Black “Fischer,Robert James”]
[Result “1/2”]
[Eco “E74”]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2 0-0 6.Bg5 h6 7.Be3 c5 8.d5 e6
9.Qd2 exd5 10.exd5 Kh7 11.h3 Na6 12.Nf3 Bf5 13.Bd3 Qd7 14.0-0 Rfe8 15.Rfe1 Nb4 16.Bxf5 Qxf5
17.a3 Nc2 18.Nh4 Qh5 19.Qxc2 Qxh4 20.b3 Re5 21.Re2 Nh5 22.Rae1 f5 23.Bd2 Rae8 24.Rxe5 Bxe5
25.Nb5 a6 26.Nxd6 Bd4 27.Nxe8 Qxf2+ 28.Kh2 Nf4 29.Bxf4 Qxe1 30.Qc1 Qxe8 31.Bxh6 Qe4 32.Bf4 Kg8
33.Qf1 Kf7 34.h4 b5 35.Bg3 bxc4 36.bxc4 Bf6 37.Qf4 Qxf4 38.Bxf4 Bxh4 39.Be3 Be7 40.Kg3 g5
41.Kf3 Kf6 42.Bd2 Bd6 1/2
graeme wins.
So in 1970 Fischer multiple US Champion and World Champion to be in 2 years draws with this Uhlmann (never heard of him). Very unlikely or very dissapointly 🙁
Sammy Reshevsky! I had the honour of playing him in a simul in 1978 and was crushed by him! Thanx for the Fischer photo.
Grandmaster Wolfgang Uhlmann of DDR, now Germany, was absolutely a hard nut to crack, even for Fischer at his prime. Uhlmann qualified for the candidates in 1970, but lost his quartefinal to the great danish GM Bent Larsen.
Uhlmann is known as one of the finest players of the french defence.
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So in 1970 Fischer multiple US Champion and World Champion to be in 2 years draws with this Uhlmann (never heard of him). Very unlikely or very dissapointly 🙁
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You should have heard of him. He was one of the elite GM’s of the day, who played in the USSR vs. The Rest of the World match that same year, and was in the Candidates next year. That Fischer should fail to beat him in an individual game is hardly a shock. He even beat Fischer himself with the Black pieces, in 1960. It’s only in game collections where the stronger player wins all the time.
Definitely Wolfgang Uhlmann
versus Bobby Fischer.
And on the right hand side
Burkhard Malich (German
Democratic Republic)
is playing.
Not that its any of my buisness, but wouldn’t it be an idea that Susan or whoever presents us with these questions, also provides the correct answer at some point?
reaspi 🙂
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And who is the other player at the near table? Who is he playing with? Reshevsky look like he is the arbiter. Is Bobby having a two tables simul?
I wonder why Bobby missed the big chance of capturing Uhlmann’s Queen??? 29… Qxc2!! 30. d6 Qc3 -attacks the rook- 31. Bg3 f4 32. Re7+ Kh8 33. Bxf4 Qa1 -threatens mate!- 34. h4 Qf1 -threatens capture Bishop- 35. Bxh6 Bg1+ 36. Kh3 Qf5+ 37. Kg3 Bf2+ 38. Kh2 Bxh4 and now Bobby has a clear advantage
To J.M.
Why 31.Bg3? Why not 31.Re7+ and 32.d7. And why not 30.Re7+ and if 30…Kh8 then 31.Bxh6 which looks enough to draw at least. But even in your line I’m not sure about a clear advantqage after say 39.Re3 Looks unclear to me. Notwithstanding tactics against the Black king, White certainly has enough for the Q with a big passer. The tactics would be too much even for Fischer – I’m sure he would just have seen ‘unclear’ tactically and ‘positionally dubious’ and steered for the draw.
Interestingly, the reigning US Champion in this picture is… Reshevsky. Nice of him to take 2nd Board. In at least one other case, a reigning champion refused to play at all if he had to play behind someone who had nearly qualified for the Candidates that same year.