Did you guys know that when I was young I was a chess enthusiast? I memorized tonnes of chess openings. The attack formations, the defensive games, all of them I memorized. I also read chess books containing games played by Chess Grandmasters such as Bobby Fischer, Gary Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. Usually I would try to think ahead of the game, imagining at least three steps ahead of what I could do or what my opponent could do. But chess is a game of tactics, and although I'm slightly brighter than the average chess player, I was no where near being a child prodigy in chess.
Anyways, now from time to time I would do some reading on chess. Apparently a 19 year old kid just became the new world number one in chess rankings. An astonishing achievement indeed.
Below I'm placing a game played by Bobby Fischer (my favorite chess player). He was a little crazy at times. I heard of one story where he purposely came late to a game against a Grand Master with only 5 minutes left in his clock and still destroyed his opponent.
Hope you enjoy the game and its commentations:
1 comment:
sweet. i've been getting into chess lately, although i'm pretty horrible at it. i didn't like fischer as a personality but his brilliance is pretty obvious.
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