Day 93
Rating 1791
Puzzle Rush Score 42
Daily Study I looked through another Fischer game today. Somehow he manages to hold a draw after being completely outplayed in the middle game.
Bobby Fischer
Day 86
Rating 1770 (too much late night blitz)
Puzzle Rush Score 33
Daily Study It was a World Chess Championship rest day today, so it was back to the books! I had a look over a Fischer game. The game was an epic Kings Indian Defense.
Day 76
Rating 1819
Puzzle Rush Score 34
Daily Study Another Bobby Fischer game today. This one was a Ruy Lopez, so I really enjoyed the opening portion of the game and I felt like there was a lot to learn from it.
Day 73
Rating 1816
Puzzle Rush Score 35
Daily Study Today I studied the following game played by Bobby Fischer and Hector Rossetto. In his book My 60 Memorable Games he titles this game “The unpleasant obligation” The game was quite interesting and there were a few key moments that stuck out to me. The first was this lovely rook move 24.Ra3 very simply moving away from the center and threatening to take a pawn. I did not see the move as I was to focused on what was going on in the middle. The second thing that I found very interesting was the way Fischer paralyzed all of his opponents pieces in the endgame and basically made whatever moves he wanted until his opponent had nothing left to do. I was trying to come up with quick plans to end the game, but that wasn’t necessary and the easiest win was to just let the opponent run out of moves.