At age 20, Bobby Fischer won the 1963–64 US Championship with 11 wins in 11 games, the only perfect score in the history of the tournament. This game which is one of the most famous games in Fischer’s career, was played in round 3 against Robert Byrne.
This was Fischer’s first win against Byrne, and one of the most excellently played miniatures in all of chess history.
Fischer’s 21-move victory against Robert Byrne won the brilliancy prize for the tournament. Byrne wrote: The culminating combination is of such depth that, even at the very moment at which I resigned, both Grandmasters who were commenting on the play for the spectators in a separate room believed I had a won game!
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Robert Eugene Byrne vs Robert James Fischer
US Championship (1963/64), New York, NY USA, rd 3, Dec-18
King’s Indian Defense: Fianchetto Variation. Immediate Fianchetto (E60)
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. g3 c6 4. Bg2 d5 5. cxd5 cxd5 6. Nc3 Bg7 7. e3 O-O 8. Nge2 Nc6 9. O-O b6 10. b3 Ba6 11. Ba3 Re8 12. Qd2 e5 13. dxe5 Nxe5 14. Rfd1 Nd3 15.Qc2 Nxf2 16. Kxf2 Ng4+ 17. Kg1 Nxe3 18. Qd2 Nxg2 19. Kxg2 d4 20. Nxd4 Bb7+ 21.Kf1 Qd7 0-1
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I messed around with some AI stuff (trying to learn from our future overlords!) to make this video.
– First I recorded some audio of Bobby’s voice.
– I then run it through – https://play.ht/ – to make a clone of his voice. This was then used in the script.
– I used – https://leonardo.ai/ – to create the graphics of Bobby.
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➡️Chessable – https://www.chessable.com/author/SimonWilliams/
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