Robert James Fischer, RIP
"Marx was a very keen chess player... Lenin was keen on chess although he he gave it up because he said it was interfering with his political activities..Marx was a bad loser apparently.. Lenin was a good loser"
(Alexander Cockburn)
Karl Marx (pawn-pusher)
(21) Spassky,B - Fischer,R Reykjavik-Wch Reykjavik (21), 1972
BF mit Schwarz ( with his fave Sicilian defense--Kan variation, methinks)
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Bd3 d5 8.exd5 exd5 9.0-0 Bd6 10.Nxc6 bxc6 11.Bd4 0-0 12.Qf3 Be6 13.Rfe1 c5 14.Bxf6 Qxf6 15.Qxf6 gxf6 16.Rad1 Rfd8 17.Be2 Rab8 18.b3 c4 19.Nxd5 Bxd5 20.Rxd5 Bxh2+ 21.Kxh2 Rxd5 22.Bxc4 Rd2 23.Bxa6 Rxc2 24.Re2 Rxe2 25.Bxe2 Rd8 26.a4 Rd2 27.Bc4 Ra2 28.Kg3 Kf8 29.Kf3 Ke7 30.g4 f5 31.gxf5 f6 32.Bg8 h6 33.Kg3 Kd6 34.Kf3 Ra1 35.Kg2 Ke5 36.Be6 Kf4 37.Bd7 Rb1 38.Be6 Rb2 39.Bc4 Ra2 40.Be6 h5 41.Bd7 0-1 (take that russ-ski)
Note the moves starting about 18-19- 20 and the great bishop sacrifice/check on h2: Spassky has been doing quite well if perhaps a standard "control the center" type of playing, and then 20 Bxh2+--the tolling of the bell starts (or so it seems). For the end game BF has R and R to Spassky's R and B. How far does Fischer set up the bishop sacrifice in advance? Masterful defensive playing from BF--though methinks a Karpov or Kasparov playing white would probably have seen that possible combination by 16 or 17 and avoided it.
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Ah the NW McMormons now plagiarizing their fave Python youtubes! Alas Bubba and McTwit are far too schtoopid for MP slapstick, not to say satire: for one, the real python fan has read at least a few classics of western Lit., history or philosophy (most of the Pythons were oxford history or philosophy dweebs). The NW McMormons could perhaps do a twit impression--or the scottish rustic morons.......
Maybe start with like Camelot, and then perhaps the cliffsnotes to "As you Like it", and Hobbes' Leviathan. (on the other hand, a little bit of British music hall satire, even done by the MP, goes a long way: suburban nihilists love their comedy (humor, the divine butcher, as Corso once yawped)
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