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...It came after D’Costa, Black in a French Defence 1 e4 e6, flagged in a winning position with knight and two pawns against a bishop....
...In the eyes of many, his consistency is edging him ahead of Garry Kasparov and Bobby Fischer as the greatest of all time....
...One of his best Rapid attacks was modelled on a 1970 Bobby Fischer classic, with an improbable climax 28 Ng5!! sacrificing a bishop on a square allowing a knight fork of White’s queen and both rooks....
...Only two previous world champions did not defend their titles: Alexander Alekhine, because he died, and Bobby Fischer, who disappeared from public life....
...Bobby Phillips voltaireandrousseaubooks.com...
...White is queen, rook, two bishops, two knights ahead, but only an obscure route to mate works (hint: it’s not a check). For solution, click here...
...In 1972, Bobby Fischer walked out of his match with Boris Spassky. He still had to return and lost — famously. Seung Chong Hong Kong...
...He tried to drag it to c2, which the computer registered as a premove that fatally lost a bishop. “Computers hate me!” said Kasparov, who famously lost to IBM Deep Blue in 1997....
...“Even an alarm isn’t much use when the local bobbies are a 20-minute drive away,” he says....
...Tourists inspect neat memorials to slain “volunteers”, and visit the Republican plot in Milltown cemetery where the hunger striker Bobby Sands and other IRA “martyrs” are buried....
...johnkay@johnkay.com ——————————————- Letter in response to this article: Time to abandon statistical norms / From Mr John Bishop Tendulkar was the better all-rounder / From Dr Prateek Buch...
...When the American Bobby Fischer fought the Soviet Union’s Boris Spassky for the title in 1972, it was a proxy for cold war rivalry....
...Kasparov relates how he consulted Boris Spassky, the man whose contest with Bobby Fisher for the world championship was the most popular moment in chess history....
...The first “non-Soviet” champion since Bobby Fischer, Anand believes India now has a chance to excel on the globalised chess battlefield, suggesting that the country’s success in information technology may...
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