#Chess checkmate series
Our series on checkmates will continue next Monday. Yet Bobby Fischer’s Most Famous Checkmate still makes a startling impression when seen for the first time and contains many instructive themes and ideas
Modern masters will find 17 …Be6!! very quickly and everything flows so smoothly after the key move. Was it really the Game of the Century? In the context of games played by chess prodigies, then perhaps so. How quickly can you force a checkmate from here? Bobby Fischer did it in six moves.Īlas, there was a faster way to checkmate, with 37 …Re2+ well done if you found a faster way to checkmate there white king than Bobby Fischer did, back in 1956. However, Byrne decided to let the junior have his fun.įast forward a few moves and all is set for the forced checkmate.
White could easily resign here with a clear conscience. Windmill in Actionīyrne chose the most spectacular line, accepting the queen sacrifice and granting Fischer an attractive windmill.įischer harvests a lot of material with his sequence of discovered checks. Even 18 …Nxd1 is very good for Black, as after 19 Bxb6 axb6 20 Qc1 (note 19 Qb3, which trapped the knight in our earlier line, now fails trivially to 19 …Bxb3) 20 …Rxa2 21 Qxd1 Rea8 White is going to be tied up in knots for the rest of the game.ġ8 Qxc3 Qxc5! 19 dxc5 Bxc3 and Black should win the ending. 19 Kg1 Ne2+ 20 Kf1 Ng3++ 21 Kg1 Qf1+ 22 Rxf1 Ne2 checkmate.ġ8 Bd3 Nb5! and Black will emerge from the complications with a winning advantage. Unpleasant Choiceġ8 Bxe6 Qb5+! and Black forces checkmate with Philidor’s Legacy.
This move is not merely an attempt to muddy the waters the position is now winning for Black. Yet young Fischer was already ahead of the game and he uncorked the remarkable star move 17 …Be6!!įischer was not a speculative player, even at the age of 13. Fischer cannot even trade the queen for an intimidating amount of material, rook and a knight, as 17 …Nxd1 18 Bxb6 axb6 19 Qb3 traps – and wins – the knight. The displacement of the king appears to be a minor inconvenience for Byrne, as he is attacking the queen on b6 and the knight on c3. We join the game just after White’s move 17 Ke1-f1, moving the king out of the check from Fischer’s rook.
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