Bobby Fischer slays Larsen’s Dragon in 31 moves 

wow, only 564,120 hours between the game and the analysis. very impressive Jerry.

I really missed uploads like this one. I love Jerry’s analysis

Rumor has it that before his match vs Fischer, he used to be known as Straight Larsen.

Thank you for taking the time to go through so many variations and alternate move analysis. It is much appreciated!

In 1958, Bobby was only 15 years old, and the Portoroz Interzonal was his first international event. No doubt, Larsen was counting a win vs one ot the "lesser lights" in the tourney, which led him to eschew the continuation at move 14 to secure a drawn rook ending. Of course, Fischer showed that he was no "weakie," finishing in the top 6, qualifying for the Candidate's Tournament and earning the GM title in the process. This game is a "coming of age" moment.

Outstanding analysis. Excellent delivery.

I remember this game being printed a lot in the 70s. Very popular post Fischer boom. Great commentary.

Hi Jerry it's everyone, glad to see you back with more reviews 😊

Your videos are very instructive. Thanks for this great content.

Watching this before my first rating tournament.

jerry uploaded, its a festivus miracle!

very instructive as usual. that light squared bishop in an e4 based opening is generally “the bad bishop” but here with the black king on a light square the “bad bishop” was the best piece😂 also thought it was interesting how posting the white king on b1 made it so rook captures on c2 even with support doesn’t come with check; that little king scoot matters when you go queenside in the Sicilian

12 years later the USSR vs the World event happened where Larsen insisted on playing Board 1 (ahead of Fischer). For possibly the first time ever Fischer deferred and agreed to this. Karma would bite the Dane a year later!!

I am a simple man. I see an upload from Jerry, I click on it. 🙂 Edit: This game was mentioned in Fischer´s "My 60 memeroable games", wasn´t it?

I like pretty much most of your content, but it was your briliant game analysis what got me hooked into chess content years ago; that's what you excel at in the eyes of mine and many others, hope to see even more in the future.

whenever jerry uploads the first thing i do is like the video. then watch it

Good Lord. Brutal. Fischer could wield both the scalpel and the scabbard. Thanks again, Jerry and Merry Christmas.

R.I.P. Bobby, you were the greatest.

Great video again. Very instructive. Thank you

Excellent commentary and analysis of variations!!!

Very well done. Thank you.

Solid content as always Jerry, you're a legend

A nice and clear explanations of the variations from the game.

Loved the game coverage!

Awesome game and great breakdown. The approach that Fischer takes this game is so very simple but the tactics are just wild! Such a very sharp game.

Thanks Jerry! Merry Christmas

Be7 was a very pretty mate. Thanks Jerry I hope you and yours have a great Christmas.

thank you for keeping up bringing out content , easily my fav chess channel out of all of"em

Many thanks for series of videos! those vidoes give me ttremendous improvement in terms of tactical vision and pattern I hope you make more vidoes like this.

Beautiful game! I just read about this game in the book" Bobby Fischer Rediscovered" by Soltis. I'm very lucky to find it in your channel as well. Thank you for the review! Cheers!

Awesome. Merry Christmas, Jerry!

Amazing slaying of the" Dragon," !! Thanks for sharing!!

Thanks for analising!

I just started learning Chess and found your channel. Such good analysis. Thank you!

No one can explain chess like you ❤️

Awesome video!

Great analysis 👍

Good call kept it light and humorous Great Game decisive win

Thank you, Jerry.

ChessNetwork is a true teacher of Chess.

Bad news, Jerry. Sounds like Magnus is pretty much property of chesscom now, so we may never get another Lichess titled arena with Dr Nykterstein.

Your analyses are most lucid of all.

TY GM!

Don't know but it's like Fisher's every move is confident in every game❤

I have Little idea what's going on. God bless you, Jerry, for walking me through it.

'Pry open the H file, sac, sac mate' or 'get there firstest with the mostest'

Powerful game😊

thanks, jerry!

I missed you Jerry 😮

It always amazes me how often Fischer was able to get such dominant positions so fast in so many games, against the best players in the world. Yes, Fischer provoked an inaccuracy by move 15, but 2 or 3 moves earlier, Larsen was already facing unpleasant choices.

more fantastic content from jerry

There will never be another Fischer. Never. Ever.

you are the best

appreciate jerry uploading but why is it always fischer or carlsen, don't forget the others, plus loads of kasparov vs karpov gems are untouched on youtube

Jerry you were one of the people who inspired me to play OTB. Got my USCF rating back in May. Currently 1600 but beat my first 2000 rated player a few weeks ago. Playing the U1700 North American Open. Any chance you’ll be out there?

Fun fact: Alexei Shirov has in 2021 improved upon Fischer's opening by meeting b4 with Bxe6! Since bxc3 Bxc3 wins a tempo on black's queen, white is keeping the strong light squares bishop as in this game but not allowing Nxd5, equalizing. Against b4 Bxe6, fxe6 is best but now after Ne2, white keeps a lot of pieces on the board and can play for the usual sac-sac-mate.

Hey Jerry, gothamchess just did a video on Stockfish beating other engines at fisher random chess. Some of the games had some really, really wild opening ideas, and I'd like to hear your more in depth analysis on what makes those ideas possible

Black is supposed to play for draw initially ,play for when opportunity offered.Thanks for some beautiful explanations especially queen sacrifice by white.

There is only one chess OG.

that bishop was insane. lol.

very pretty!

Bobby was the best

Another solid one Jerry Congrats on 500k 2 things Have you considered upgrading your board to something more modern looking. I also use those pieces but the board looks old. It's not necessarily bad but switching it up might be good. 2. A video on isolated pawn and hanging pawn structures Thanks for all you do. Love you Jerry

Chess Network... I love you, but anime fischer thumbnail crosses a line.

Man, you were making great content before it was cool. You deserve to be on Agadmator's level because it was indeed a nice analysis. You both should do a Colab!

Bobby Fischer the Goat in chess nobody else until now

15:16 Fischer probably considered g6 to be an inaccuracy 😂

More videos like this please

Didn't Fischer say in relation to this (or a similar game), "I don't believe in dragons".

light squared bishop in sicilian is scary !

@ 8:56 why isn't the queen taking the diagonal approach to h8 cell? Just began playing and want to know what would happen there?

Next video: Fischer vs Komodo dragon engine

In the few games I’ve watched of Fishers, he seems like to like pinning in pieces, and also he will quickly move himself out of those positions when his opponent does it.

Hi Jerry.

❤

I’d love to last 30 moves against Fischer.

1:01... there's Larsen's first blunder. He should have moved his knight to a5 to attack that white bishop. it would be forced to abandon c4 or b3 or get captured.

14:15 Saw that immediately, so I will now let everyone know I am confirmed better than Bobby Fischer (ignoring the fact that I would never have played well enough to get to this position in a live game)

Nice

I'm surprised Fischer was confident in getting away with having the bishop sitting there on D5, how to explain that?

Which program you use my friend please 😊

What year is this

GM Larsen went by his second name, 'Bent'. So this game could be called "Get Bent".

what app is this?

Why did Bobby Fischer stop playing chess? He said he was tired of the "Bobby Fischer price" of always being "checkmated"!

9 moves and I would have beat him Boys and Germs... ...My Graph of Wins on Red Hot Pawn was Impressive considering I was always Pissed when I logged In...

AI art?

Bent got bent.

by 1958, Bobby was already a powerhouse at age 18. I'd love to see the established masters of the day reacting to his early successes

🤷‍♂️

Let the game play, comment on a second run through.

Hikaru would wreck these guys. Terrible.

You don't sound very happy while making these videos my friend.

The Voice is monotonous ! Analysis is over shadowed by the verbose narration

Great analysis. Voice is TERRIBLE--needs spice.

Stop using the word "slay"

Its probably good videos.. but the lack of enthusiasm, the dead-sounding voice makes watching ur videos unhealthy

You can't understand the game because you keep talkin

Bent Larsen vs Bobby Fischer. 31 moves. This was a great game, but chess videos don’t present games, as far as I’ve been able to determine over the years. Showing alternative histories, and discussing possible alternative moves, is not chess, it is not the presentation of a game. Kibbitzing is an idiotic thing. Games are played, moves have the sense of “being played”. Nothing of what you presented is chess. All the alternatives you showed lost the history of the game, Bobby was no longer playing his game, and Bent was no longer playing his, what you showed was a lot of silly nonsense, some sort of analysis based on a perspective of seeing the game history which is false. I learned this game long ago the right way, according to its script, according to which there is no alternative. Life can’t be some other way than the way it is played, because life occurs in the present tense. You must follow the moves as they occur, and only as they occur, for that is not just games, but physics, and the history of all possible known or knowable things. Everything is determined, and being determined, is occurrence, for there is a history to moves being played, which is not the occurrence of moves, but of the being of particles- the occurrence of a particle. The meaning is, the occurrence is the GAME itself, its pieces,-That it to say, the board-, is what occurs. In physics, occurrence is relativity, the spacetime continuum equals the occurrence of history. What it means is, present a game so that we can enjoy it, because the meaning to be derived from a game is not analysis but reflection, the satisfaction of seeing Bobby triumph, is the meaning of the game, just as the meaning of life, is looking back on your experiences, and being contented with how you played, not because some other way would have been wrong, but because you played your game, according to your terms, you lived your life, your own way. That is the satisfaction of the game, I lived life well, because I did it my way. Next time, just talk about features of Bobby’s game.