I was expecting the video naration to be in English, i was drunk and i thought that my brain was translating to me out loud, until i figured out there was a dude speaking my language.
Bryan Tuck Your comment cracks me up. Same here, friend. "Drunk" is only part of it, nudge nudge, wink wink. I enjoy getting into the right state of mind & watching chess-related videos. Glad there are, at the very least, 3 of us. Lol Your move.
Anyone else notice how Bobby would beam this huge boyish smile while explaining the moves of Morphy and the teachings of Steinez?.... he truly loved analyzing and explaining this. He hardly smiled at all the rest of the interview.
bobby was a simple person with god-gifted capabilities. no.. thete will be none like him.. ever. you may criticise him,hate him... but cannot IGNORE THE GOD OF CHESS.
I've nearly played the Opera game a few times with white. I think there's something about the way beginner's minds work that causes them to play that way with the black pieces. It was true in 1858, it seems to be true now. Maybe the thought process goes something like this: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 (well, I need to defend e5 somehow) 3. d4 Bg4 (Hey look, a pin! I should take it!) 4. dxe5 Bxe5 (If I don't trade I'll lose a pawn) 5. Qxf3 Nf6 (Well, I have to defend mate) and so we get opera game like positions.
Fischer was actually very good at explaining chess ideas in simple terms (that are even understandable to a guy like me). I recently watched some footage of Anand commenting on a Max Euwe game.. and hardly understood a word ;) But I would still love to see some current top players annotate some classic games of chess history.. talk about the players styles, their strengths and weaknesses, and so on..
Ernesto Carrillo Too much a fan, I’m afraid to say. Both prodigies, both self taught chess at early grade school age, both the best player of their era, both stopped playing chess at their peak, both suffered from mental illness most likely brought on by chess.
That was at a time when the American anthem was still played for Bobby Fischer. Later on he was persecuted and prosecuted just for playing chess and had to die in loneliness on the island of Iceland. Shame on America.
@@Wally780 Exactly ! Bobby Fischer is a sad example for what you've just said. In the long run it destroys the reputation of America in the world - not only in the field of chess.
Very nice find. Obviously for Yugoslav audience, so Fischer's actual speaking voice was overwhelmed by the interpreter's, just as English-language programs do with non-native speakers. You can still hear Bobby over the interpreter's jibber-jabber, and he's pretty good in that guileless say he had back then.
You guys are out of place criticizing Bjelica's translation, that's how it's done. Pretend you *don't* know English but *do* know Serbo-Croatian, and you're glad he's translating as fast as he can. In any case, this is an excellent instructional video (not to mention such a fun game). I learned a lot. (I'm an IM.) I didn't know 5.gxf3 was Steinitz, I'd seen it given as Pachman -- not to mention that nice line with the long diagonal win! And Fischer's side-story with the two Yugoslavian simul players is great stuff! Just an offhand reminder what a fantastic player Fischer was. And that "we both won" comment was the epitome of Fischer's personality. (I think without any detraction.)
Wow! My favorite player commenting on my favorite game of who I consider to be the greatest ever! I had seen those comments about bf4 "This is a weak move already," assumed it was from a book, not Russian television! It's funny, because in the video before the interviewer asked, "Which game would you like to show us" and he said 'The Duke of Brunswick' the interviewer said, 'That's an old one' and I thought it was pretty odd that he knew such an old game. Then I realized it was The Opera Game! Haha
Bobby fischer ignoring defending his title against Anatoly Karpov of USSR still aches the hearts of his fans even today. Had it been some peripheral grand master who forfeited his title, the world would have cared too hoots. Bobby Fischer was too precious to do such a thing.
It would have also been nice to see how Fischer would have handled Kasparov in the mid 80s. Even though Fischer would be about 40 by then and probably passed his prime it still would have been one for the history books.
@@sanseverything900 most games would end in a draw but fischer would have handled kasparov comfortably....assuming once again both were in their strongest days
He was like the Mike Tyson of chess. The only thing he knew how to do, play chess (like boxing for Mike), and the only thing he needed to do to support himself.
@@screenwatcherfindlay6027 The whole second sentence was hurried and seems redundant and awkward; but they aren't called "brackets." They are parentheses. If you are going to correct someone on punctuation or grammar, at least get the words right.
I did my best to edit out the translation while keeping the analysis intact. Give it a look. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NuEUYpuDC3k.html
its funny to see bobby referencing the moves on his paper, one might think someone of his strength might know the game by heart, atleast i know and i'm a patzer
this is the best chess video i've ever seen, the 2nd best player of all time analyzing a game by morphy, the greatest player ever. fischer said in another video (when he was much older) that morphy was the most accurate and talented player ever.
I have put a link to this from the Facebook Sicilian defence wall - I have never seen this footage of Fischer annotating a game before in my life - very interesting how he annotates moves indeed :) Best wishes, Kingscrusher
People stop hating it was simul translation for Balkan countries, at that time it was necessary :) And Its great Bobby knew our language a bit also :) He was a genius :)
Probably not much, he despised memorized openings to begin with, and hated how high level players just memorize preparations, traps, etc. These days with engines its even worse.
superhacker35 What are you supposed to do? played flawed openings and lose? If he didn't like memorizing he should've never played. He was fucking crazy
Rick Sanchez Memorising doesn't determine who's truly the better player that's why he hated it you idiot!!! Mr Fischer didn't like Memorising because it would give his opponent a better chance to win!!!
rasputin777 I saw Robert james fischer at Toledo Ohio.. It was a simul.; He gave a lecture on an old Gunsberg game that was nearly incomprehensible.This however is quite different..
Could someone do a transcript of what Bobby is saying about each move? I can't hear it and the translator dominates and is louder and annoying. (I have hearing loss and find this clip challenging, but I am interested in what Bobby has to say!)
Unfortunately this was not meant for an English-speaking audience, so his narrative is only necessary for the translator, who is really relating the information to the audience. It sucks for us, though.
Bobby Fischer was not a chess player - He was a chess magician....able to do the impossible tricks which even grand masters' brains could not comprehend. Had he continued his play, he would have whipped many more asses in the world of chess championship play. He was a messenger of god specially sent to the chess world. His lack of defending his title rematch with Anatoly Karpov is still regretted by all his fans throughout the world.
They say he chickened out against Karpov. Really? After destroying one Russian after another he was afraid of a dude the same as them? Why? Karpov was the same as Petrosian, Reshevsky, Tal, Korchnoi, they were all clones.
@@hyzercreek during the candidates tournament fischer defeated karpov and only then he was able to play with boris spassky after fischer became world champion during candidates karpov emerged victorious to play against bobby fischer fischer wud have easily beaten karpov the second time around
@@hyzercreek Most experts thought Karpov would have given Fischer a much tougher game than Spassky. Remember that Spassky never reached his full potential in the match due to Fischer's constant complaints.
@@lbvprasad5495 What are you talking about, Fischer never played a single game against Karpov. Fischer beat Taimanov, Larsen and Petrosian in the 1971 play off matches.
He annotated ten games in this series with Bjelica. Featured were Morphy, Steinitz, Capablanca, Botvinnik (on his famous Dubrovnik set!), Tal, Petrosian, Larsen, Spassky, Reshevsky and Gligoric.
When he said it was typical of Steinitz's ideas, I think he only means that it was typical for Steinitz to play such strategic lines since Steinitz appreciates small and stable positional advantages, and thought in a very consistent and algorithmic manner...He is saying Steinitz's idea of gxf3 is a good variation One of the finest chess.com articles I've read recently www.chess.com/blog/raync910/equilibrium-an-important-chess-concept-of-steinitz
For you new comers, the great American chess master Paul Morphy, played in an opera house in Paris in 1858 against two of Europe's greatest players...the two brilliant Euros teamed up to try to defeat the young American from New Orleans! Naturally, the American won (as usual).
As a very lucky 12 year old I was one of hundreds of players who played simultaneous chess in Daley Plaza in Chicago in 1972 during the Bobby Fisher craze. I lasted 29 moves which surprised both of us. It was amazing to watch him play around the giant square of tables. When he won, of course, he asked me my age and complimented me for lasting so long. “ Be sure to keep playing. Work on your end game” he said. He was super nice. Especially to the kids. Years later I think he deliberately drew out the game for me as an encouragement to keep playing but I’ll never know. Years later I was walking through my college campus (Spring Hill College) and found a small statue dedicated to Paul Morphy who graduated from there. I recognized his name, and was amazed with how often he was referred years later to in The Queen’s Gambit.
I also notice several times that Bobby would speak in Serbian. There is note that he taught himself Russian in order to study russian chess texts, I wonder if he also studied Serbian. In the first part of this interview (another video) he occasionally agrees with or comments on the interviewers Serbian comments before it is translated to english.
Fischer knew little to no russian or german..these urban legends of his intellect were greatly exagerrated..chess genius: no doubt..away from chess, not very intellectually inclined.. awkward socially, suspicious..not very well educated..his entire brilliance is in chess and that alone..I think he was the greatest chess player ever..as an everyday citizen my iq is probably higher..i think these stories are greatly embellished and i don't for a second believe his mother was some kind of academic PhD
Beautiful film. The interpreter talks far too much. His microphone should have been volumed down. I guess this video was taken in Yugoslavia or somewhere else in eastern Europe.
Adrian P Let's go back to 1972 and Fischer is world champion. If you could choose from all the great chess players of ALL TIME for Fischer to to compete against, who would you have chosen and why? In other words, do you believe there may have been somebody who could've kept him from winning the title?
+USNVA Any modern champion and top grandmaster for the same reason Fischer said that Morphy would be beat by a student of the game back in the 60's because the theory of the opening has become so advanced, the only thing you can compare is raw talent, chess is not a wonderful game of strategy and creativity anymore, it was not maybe even then in the age of Fisher, he again pointed out that himself by saying a big part of the game is memorization, or to put it to you in propper perspective there is literary a move and counter move for each motherfucking game and opening except for the last ending 10-20 moves, it is like crossing the street to get to the market - billions of things and posibilities can be done but there are only few and logical ways to getting across the street to the store. If you are looking for creativity and strategy in endless option you should try ''GO'' , a chinese board game so advanced even the most advanced computers can be intermediate players. I hope that you are satisfied with the answer which basicaly is - Talentwise it's a probability that he would be the best, but knowledgewise he would be beaten.
+pepamethodman Nope, novelties happen all the time in openings that deviate from book after several moves, and a player can pick from a half dozen variations and so on, so memorization quickly ends in real life games. Don't overgeneralize like Fischer did. It distorts reality. Go play a game and test your sill theory. Deviate from the book or database and see what happens. You don't know what you are talking about. New situations arise in chess all the time, requiring new thinking. You just repeat dogma you heard.
+Dexter Haven My point is that Fischer talentwise was maybe greater that todays players, and in knowledge wise he would lose to any major GM, if you studied chess as it can be seen by your cockiness you would know that it is an objective fact, emotions aside, it is not dogma. And about go play a game, i probably have played 1 or 2 games in my life :D And for Anand and Carlsen it is a game of patterns and they dominated the chess scene last 10 years, so.... PS: try playing Go if you get a hard on on new situations that require strategy and creativness.
Bobby blew it. Many who idolized him called him a coward when he forfeited. I would have admired him if he lost with dignity instead of running away. I quit chess shortly after
Eh, everyone knows he would have easily beat Karpov though. It wasn't cowardice so much as he'd already done what he set out to do so he didn't feel motivated anymore. Same thing happened to Morphy actually. He just stopped prematurely.
Mwangi Kimani Fischer’s whole family was Jewish. His mother was a hardcore Jewish communist activist and he grew up in a Jewish community in New York. He obsessively studied history his whole life and spent his later life tracking down obscure and rare history books. He was someone that believed in the American ideals of fairness, equality and freedom and he had a difficult time in real life confronted by the evils of reality. Large political groups like the Jews fight for control of the world and manipulation of people. Fischer was an idealistic person who believed in ethics and strong moral values. He hated the Jews for what they do in the world and he knew very well the things they so. Like many other groups and really all the religions whose origins are in the Middle East (Christian, Catholic, Muslim and Jews) They are all political groups active in geopolitics try control with absolute power. Systems and organizations of control not religious beliefs. Although they do have religion as a part of their structure. They have all killed millions upon millions of people. Continuing on until forever
Be nice if someone could give us an edited version minus the annoying translator, who doesn't even wait for Bobby to complete his sentence before bursting into translation.
