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When Bobby Fischer was a child he and his mother moved 10 times. After all of the moving they found somewhere where they stayed. Bobby Fischer began playing chess at the age of 6 and there being nobody at home for him to play with (because his mother was always busy)  he played chess with himself

Bobby Fischer actually created a way to play chess which he called “Fischer Random” but now is called chess960. This is my research about Bobby Fischer, and Bobby Fischer’s early years and his family. In this i will talk about Bobby Fischer’s Games. I will talk about what made them so important to bobby fischer’s career in chess. I will also talk about what made them the best games. I will also talk about Fischer’s sort of rise to power in chess. My main idea is about Bobby Fischer’s childhood and his career in chess during his childhood.

Bobby Fischer was first noticed by somebody at a tournament in Boston. He was noticed by the boston chess (forgot) Nigro, Nigro was so impressed by how well Bobby Fischer played that he invited him to play in the boston chess club

In 1954, he met grandmaster William Lombardy who taught him tactics and little things of the game. The two engaged in playing very good chess together. It was these games that built a strong foundation on which he relied on for the rest of his life.

In 1955, he got a membership with the Manhattan Chess Club. The following year, he attended the Hawthorne Chess Club. It was there that he befriended Jack W Collins who went on to become his teacher. He not only played several competitive matches against Collins but also read through the latter’s large chess library.

His career experienced a very steep upward rise as Fischer soon went up the rating chart to list himself at the number one position on the United States Chess Federation. In 1956, he created history by becoming the youngest ever US Junior Chess Champion with a score of 8½/10. While his overall performance at the championships gave him enough popularity and fame, it was his match against International Master Donald Byrne that made him a household name in the world of chess.

He outshined the master player with his exceptional chess playing skills, to record the finest game in the history of chess prodigies. The game went on to be called, ‘The Game of the Century”. This is the notation 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. d4 O-O 5. Bf4 d5 6. Qb3 dxc4 7. Qxc4 c6 8. e4 Nbd7 9. Rd1 Nb6 10. Qc5 Bg4 11. Bg5 11… Na4 12. Qa3 Nxc3 14. Bxe7 Qb6 15. Bc4 Nxc3 16. Bc5 Rfe8+ 17. Kf1 Be6 18. Bxb6 Bxc4+ 19. Kg1 Ne2+ 20. Kf1 Nxd4+  21. Kg1 Ne2+ 22. Kf1 Nc3+ 23. Kg1 axb6 24. Qb4 Ra4 25. Qxb6 Nxd1 26. h3 Rxa2 27. Kh2 Nxf2 28. Re1 Rxe1 29. Qd8+ Bf8 30. Nxe1 Bd5 31. Nf3 Ne4 32. Qb8 b5  33. h4 h5 34. Ne5 Kg7 35. Kg1 Bc5+ 36. Kf1 Ng3+ 37. Ke1 Bb4+ 38. Kd1 Bb3+ 39. Kc1 Ne2+ 40. Kb1 Nc3+ 41. Kc1 Rc2#

In 1957, he beat his own world record (and a little bit more) by securing 2231 at the UCSF’s eleventh national rating list. With this score, he became the country’s youngest ever chess master. He went on to get the US Junior title for the second time and became the youngest ever U.S. Open Champion. Bobby Fischer in the 1958 U.S. Championship Fischer against all odds made 8 wins and 5 draws which secured him the title of International Master.

With a score of 2626 and an international master title in his repertoire, he qualified to contest the 1958 Portorož Interzonal. The competition was his next step towards securing the title of World Champion. In 1957, he attempted to participate in the World Youth and Student Festival but in vain. It was only in 1958 that he visited Russia to be a part of the game show, ‘I’ve Got a Secret’ He visited the Moscow Central Chess Club where he played against two young Soviet masters. And beat them What’s more, he even then beat the grandmaster Vladimir Alatortsev in three games.

He was finally invited to play as early guest to the Interzonal. Even though he was only fifteen, he scored a brilliant victory despite having a bumpy start, finishing on a strong note. He became one of the top six finishers in the Interzonal, thus easily qualifying for the Candidates Tournament. He became the youngest person ever to qualify for the Candidates tournament.

At the candidates tournament Bobby Fischer placed the 5th out of 8 people finishing with a score of 12 1/2 out of 28 games bobby Fischer lost to the tournament Tal who then won all 4 individual games. Over the next few years, he recorded a victory at various tournaments including the US Championship. However, with the turn of events and the accusation of Soviet of collusion, he momentarily retired from the game only to return back.

In 1970, he started working to become a World Champion. At the 1970 and 1971 world championship candidate matches, he recorded a 20 consecutive winning game streak before losing it to former world champion Tigran Petrosian. However, he defeated the latter to challenge Boris Spassky for the world title.

Though he lost the first two matches against Spassky, he soon returned with his magical touch and innovative spirit to record an impressive victory. With a score of 12.5 to 8.5 on Bobby Fischer who had problems with the UCSF rules he refused to play so therefore surrendering lost his world champion title and he left for the next 20 years in a  self-proclaimed exile from playing chess. Seven wins, one loss and 11 draws in 19 games, he not just won the match but became the World Chess Champion.      In 1992, he returned to play against Boris Spassky. This match took place in Sveti Stefan and Belgrade, Yugoslavia. The match was held in defiance of the United Nations sanctions against Slobodan Miloseviæ’s Serbia for war crimes. The sanctions also included commercial activities. He outshined Spassky to record a victory.  Bobby Fischer’s childhood is a very interesting thing because of how it all happens. So Bobby Fischer first started playing chess at the age of 6

Bobby Fischer’s Family

Bobby Fischer’s Family is very interesting because Bobby Fischer did not have a rich family where his mother and father would pay for him to go to a chess school or get him the best chess books or anything he had to start playing chess on his own. Bobby Fischer’s mother was married to Hans-Gerhardt Fischer but he was in Santiago,Chile but the Immigration security would not let him in.

It is thought that they had a romantic affair and so that is why it is thought that maybe he is  the Father. Paul Nemenyi did support the baby and give Regina some money. Eventually, they did find out that Paul Nemenyi was Bobby Fischer’s father.

Bobby Fischer’s mother went to the Chicago home for fatherless families and it was actually at this home that she was at one time arrested for disturbing the peace. (because she kept telling all of the other people to question the institute’s rules.) She was pardoned but her mental state was tested and it was said that she had paranoia.

Hans-Gerhardt fischer was never let into the country and was forever a german citizen. They thought that that he was a soviet spy because he had soviet ties. Bobby Fischer’s Mother divorced Hans-Gerhardt fischer because of willful neglect of the children.

Paul Nemenyi had soviet ties and said that the soviet government was better than the american government. Paul Nemenyi had growing interest in Bobby Fischer (probably because of how well he was doing in chess) so he went to a social worker one time and asked that he get him because of Bobby Fischer’s Mothers mental state (paranoia) and insisted that he should take the child. When that did not work he tried again well it didn’t work that time either.

Paul nemenyi died on march 1, 1952 of a heart attack he had just stopped by a dance at  the  International student house. The FBI targeted Bobby Fischer and his mother and spent quite a bit of time trying to find something. They never found anything incriminating but they did find out who Bobby Fischer’s biological father was.

At the time of Nemenyi’s death, Regina was in nursing school in Brooklyn, she had no money and was facing eviction. Photos of Paul Nemenyi bear a striking physical resemblance to Bobby Fischer. The FBI file described Dr. Nenemyi “as having a large nose, large knobby fingers, and an awkward, slovenly walk and dress.”

When Dr. Paul Nemenyi died, Regina Fischer wrote to Peter Nemenyi, who was at Black Mountain College in Asheville, NC. “Bobby has not had a decent meal at home this past month and was sick for two days with fever and sore throat and, of course, a doctor or medicine was out of the question. I don’t think Paul would have wanted to leave Bobby this way and would ask you most urgently to let me know if Paul left anything for Bobby.  Bobby is still expecting Paul.”

She also wrote that she could not afford to patch his torn shoes. Regina did not want to tell Bobby of Paul Nemenyi’s death and was hoping that Peter Nemenyi would do it.  He was not comfortable with that, so he consulted a family doctor for advice.  He wrote to his family doctor, “I take it you know that Paul was Bobby Fischer’s father.  The matter is further complicated by the false pretenses about Bobby’s identity and the parents’ difference of opinion over the question.”  Peter felt he was not qualified to tell Bobby about Paul’s death since Peter had met Bobby only a few times.

In 1963, Peter Nemenyi received his Doctorate in mathematics from Princeton. In the 1960s, Bobby’s half-brother, Peter Nemenyi, was beaten and arrested while trying to help black voters in Mississippi and trying to integrate coffee shops.  In 2002, Peter killed himself in Durham, NC, at the age of 75, after suffering from prostate cancer.

In 2002, an article by Peter Nicholas and Clea Benson of  The Philadelphia Inquirer suggests that Nemenyi may be the biological father of Bobby Fischer.  Through the Freedom of Information Act, they were able to obtain what the FBI had on Regina Fischer.

An FBI report claimed that both Hans-Gerhardt Fischer and Dr, Paul Nemenyi harbored Soviet sympathies. Hans-Gerhardt Fischer was born on September 28, 1908 in Berlin, Germany.  He was a Jew and worked in Berlin in the early 1930s, where he met Regina Wender, whose father, Jacob (Jack) Wender, was a Polish dress cutter.

Regina graduated from high school in St. Louis, Missouri and attended Washington University, the University of Arizona, and the University of Denver.  In 1932, she went to Berlin to study and to work as a governess.  It was in Berlin that Regina met Hans-Gerhardt. Hans and Regina moved to Moscow in 1933 and were married in Moscow on November 4, 1933.

She was 20, he was 25.  He was a biophysicist working at the Moscow Brain Institute.   She was studying medicine at the First Moscow Medical Institute and he was studying biophysics.  Regina stayed for a year in medical school but never graduated.  Quitting school, she worked as a riveter in a defense plant in the Soviet Union.

Their first born child, Joan Fischer, was born in Moscow in 1937.  She died in 1998. On July 29, 1938, Regina went to renew her passport at the American embassy.  She told a staff member that she had separated from her husband.  At about this time, Hans-Gerhardt had left or was sent to operated on the Republican side in the Spanish civil war to fight the Fascists.

Late 1938, Regina and Joan departed for France and met up with Hans-Gerhardt in Paris.  It’spossible they also went to Austria. On January 23, 1939, Regina Fischer left France and headed to the United States with her daughter, Joan.  She was born in Switzerland but raised in St. Louis, Missouri and was a naturalized American citizen.  She caught one of the last ships leaving France for America.

It is not clear if Hans-Gerhardt was on this ship (he did not have a U.S. passport, but had a Spanish passport).  The FBI does say that Hans-Gerhardt Fischer never entered the United States from any ship (was he a suspected Soviet spy?). The FBI file says that Hans Gerhardt Fischer lived for a time in Port San Antonio and Santiago, Chile where he sold and installed fluorescent lights and worked as a photographer.

He landed in Chile on January 4, 1940. The FBI suspected that Hans might be a Soviet spy targeting Nazis in South America.  In one letter to Regina in June 1941, he made what the FBI called a cryptic reference to photographing fisherman (Nazis?) at a Chilean port.  During that time, three German agents had been arrested there, posing as fisherman.  They were charged with transmitting espionage information by radio.

Regina later divorced Hans-Gerhardt on September 14, 1945 on the grounds of willful neglect to provide for her and her two children. At the time of divorce, Regina was living in Moscow, Idaho. He never lived with her in the United States.  He remained a lifelong German citizen. Bobby Fischer’s only public statement about his father appeared in Start, a Zagreb newspaper.  “My father left my mother when I was two.  I have never seen him.  My mother has only told me that his name was Gerhardt and that he was of German descent.”  Fischer once said, “Children who miss a parent become wolves.”

Later, Bobby Fischer told a friend that he and Joan did not have the same father.  Joan Fischer Targ always insisted that her father’s name was Hans-Gerhardt Fischer.Hans-Gerhardt Fischer died on Febuary 25, 1993 in Berlin, Germany. Regina Wender was born on march 31, 1913 in Zurich, Switzerland. Regina Wender Fischer Pustin died of cancer on July 27, 1997 at the age of 84 in the Stanford University Hospital.

Bobby Fischer’s best games

“All that matters on the chessboard is good moves” -Bobby Fischer

One of Bobby Fischer’s Best games is his game with Donald Bryne the game is also called “The Game of The Century” This game was such a great game because of Bobby Fischer’s Queen sacrifice for a rook a bishop and knight and a pawn leaving Bryne’s Queen on the other side of the board and unable to help him. Notation: 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. d4 O-O 5. Bf4 d5 6. Qb3 dxc4 7. Qxc4 c6 8. e4 Nbd7 9. Rd1 Nb6 10. Qc5 Bg4 11. Bg5 11… Na4 12. Qa3 Nxc3 14. Bxe7 Qb6 15. Bc4 Nxc3 16. Bc5 Rfe8+ 17. Kf1 Be6 18. Bxb6 Bxc4+ 19. Kg1 Ne2+ 20. Kf1 Nxd4+  21. Kg1 Ne2+ 22. Kf1 Nc3+ 23. Kg1 axb6 24. Qb4 Ra4 25. Qxb6 Nxd1 26. h3 Rxa2 27. Kh2 Nxf2 28. Re1 Rxe1 29. Qd8+ Bf8 30. Nxe1 Bd5 31. Nf3 Ne4 32. Qb8 b5  33. h4 h5 34. Ne5 Kg7 35. Kg1 Bc5+ 36. Kf1 Ng3+ 37. Ke1 Bb4+ 38. Kd1 Bb3+ 39. Kc1 Ne2+ 40. Kb1 Nc3+ 41. Kc1 Rc2#

Another one of bobby Fischer’s Best games was his game against James T. Sherwin the game is known as “Sherwin’s Forced” It was such a great game because 15 year old Bobby Fischer actually force mated the Grand Master James T. Sherwin. Game notation:

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cd4 4. Nd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bc4 e67. O-O b5 8. Bb3 b4 9. Nb1 Bd7 10. Be3 Nc6 11. f3 Be7 12. c3bc3 13. Nc6 Bc6 14. Nc3 O-O 15. Rc1 Qb8 16. Nd5 ed517. Rc6 de4 18. fe4 Qb5 19. Rb6 Qe5 20. Bd4 Qg5 21. Qf3Nd7 22. Rb7 Ne5 23. Qe2 Bf6 24. Kh1 a5 25. Bd5 Rac826. Bc3 a4 27. Ra7 Ng4 28. Ra4 Bc3 29. bc3 Rc3 30. Rf7Rc1 31. Qf1 h5 32. Qc1 Qh4 33. Rf8 Kh7 34. h3 Qg3 35. hg4h4 36. Be6

Bobby fischer had another game where he created another fantastic sacrifice trap. This game was against Rene Letelier Martner. In This game 17 Year old Bobby Fischer created a trap that put his queen unprotected in front of Martner’s king and Martner seeing this knew that the game was over no matter what he did; so he resigned after that move Game Notation:

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 O-O 5. e5 Ne8 6. f4 d67. Be3 c5 8. dc5 Nc6 9. cd6 ed6 10. Ne4 Bf5 11. Ng3 Be6 12. Nf3 Qc7 13. Qb1 de5 14. f5 e4 15. fe6 ef3 16. gf3 f5 17. f4Nf6 18. Be2 Rfe8 19. Kf2 Re6 20. Re1 Rae8 21. Bf3 Re3 22. Re3 Re3 23. Ke3 Qf4

Another great game of Bobby fischer was a sort of “Grudge Match” because he had lost to the person he played earlier on in his chess career. The game was Bobby Fischer (White) and Mikhail Tal (black). This game was also called “playing against Einstein Theory”. Bobby Fischer sort of created a trap to make it so he had both his rooks and that Tal only had his queen and that is exactly what happened and the last move in the notation is where Tal resigned because Fischer had a much better position. Game notation:

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cd4 4. Nd4 e6 5. Nc3 Qc7 6. g3 Nf67. Ndb5 Qb8 8. Bf4 Ne5 9. Be2 Bc5 10. Be5 Qe5 11. f4 Qb812. e5 a6 13. ef6 ab5 14. fg7 Rg8 15. Ne4 Be7 16. Qd4 Ra417. Nf6 Bf6 18. Qf6 Qc7 19. O-O-O Ra2 20. Kb1 Ra6 21. Bb5Rb6 22. Bd3 e5 23. fe5 Rf6 24. ef6 Qc5 25. Bh7 Qg5 26. Bg8Qf6 27. Rhf1 Qg7 28. Bf7 Kd8 29. Be6 Qh6 30. Bd7 Bd731. Rf7 Qh2 32. Rdd7 Ke8 33. Rde7 Kd8 34. Rd7 Kc835. Rc7 Kd8 36. Rfd7 Ke8 37. Rd1 b5 38. Rb7 Qh5 39. g4Qh3 40. g5 Qf3 41. Re1 Kf8 42. Rb5 Kg7 43. Rb6 Qg344. Rd1 Qc7 45. Rdd6 Qc8 46. b3 Kh7 47. Ra6

Bobby Fischer (white) had another Great game with Pal Benko (black). The game is also called “Rook, Line and Sinker”. Bobby Fischer set up a trap with his rook that ended the game. Game notation: 1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. Nc3 d6 4. f4 Nf6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Bd3 Bg47. h3 Bf3 8. Qf3 Nc6 9. Be3 e5 10. de5 de5 11. f5 gf5 12. Qf5Nd4 13. Qf2 Ne8 14. O-O Nd6 15. Qg3 Kh8 16. Qg4 c617. Qh5 Qe8 18. Bd4 ed4 19. Rf6 Kg8 20. e5 h6 21. Ne2

Bobby Fischer played Robert Eugene Bryne (Donald Bryne’s older Brother). This game is also called “The Brilliancy prize.” This game is called that because of how well Bobby Fischer played some people said “It was more witchcraft than chess.” Bobby Fischer set up traps and everything to stop any good move that Robert Bryne had. Game notation:

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. Rfd1Nd315. Qc2 Nxf216. Kxf2 Ng4+ 17. Kg1 Nxe3 18. Qd2 Nxg219. Kxg2 d4 !20. Nxd4 Bb7+21. Kf1 Qd7 After this move White resigned after this move and Bobby fischer was quite disappointed by this because he saw a line of moves that would lead to checkmate not too long after he resigned (Which probably means that Bryne saw it too)

Bobby Fischer had another great game with Lhamsuren Myagmarsuren. This game is also called “A night in Tunisia” It is called this because of how Lhamsuren Myagmarsuren Played the “King’s indian” (tunisia is in india). Lhamsuren Myagmarsuren Played an extremely good game but when he was marching his queen down Bobby Fischer’s left side of the board he forgot about his king but it was too late after bobby Fischer had it all set up and he made a queen sacrifice Where he was Forced to take the queen then being a mate in 2 moves but White resigned before he took Bobby fischer’s Queen  Notation:1. e4 e6 2. d3 d5 3. Nd2 Nf6 4. g3 c5 5. Bg2Nc6 6. Ngf3 Be7 7. O-O O-O 8. e5 Nd7 9. Re1b5 10. Nf1 b4 11. h4 a5 12. Bf4 a4 13. a3 bxa314. bxa3 Na5 15. Ne3 Ba6 16. Bh3 d4 17. Nf1Nb6 18. Ng5 Nd5 19. Bd2 Bxg5 20. Bxg5 Qd721. Qh5 Rfc8 22. Nd2 Nc3 23. Bf6 Qe8 24. Ne4g6 25. Qg5 Nxe4 26. Rxe4 c4 27. h5 cxd3 28. Rh4 Ra7 29. Bg2 dxc2 30. Qh6 Qf8 31. Qxh7+ This move is Bobby Fischer’s queen sacrifice and this is where Black resigned (Lhamsuren) because this is how the rest of the game would have gone starting from the Queen sacrifice: 31. Qxh7+ Kxh7 32. Xe6+ Kxe6 33.Be4 Checkmate.

Bobby Fischer has yet another really good game. This game was with Wolfgang Unzicker (playing black). This game was played in the Siegen ol final tournament. This game was really interesting because of how both of them played. Wolfgang was ahead at one point in the game but then he blundered his rook which pretty much ruined the game for him. In the end they ended up trading off but Bobby Fischer had more pawns and  more options in general, so Wolfgang resigned. Notation:1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Bc6 dc6 5. O-O f6 6. d4 ed47. Nd4 Ne7  8. Be3 Ng6 9. Nd2 Bd6 10. Nc4 O-O 11. Qd3Ne5 12. Ne5 Be5 13. f4 Bd6 14. f5 Qe7 15. Bf4 Bf4 16. Rf4Bd7 17. Re1 Qc5 18. c3 Rae8 19. g4 Qd6 20. Qg3 Re721. Nf3 c5 22. e5 fe5 23. Rfe4 Bc6 24. Re5 Rfe8 25. Re7 Re726. Ne5 h6 27. h4 Bd7 28. Qf4 Qf6 29. Re2 Bc8 30. Qc4 Kh731. Ng6 Re2 32. Qe2 Bd7 33. Qe7 Qe7 34. Ne7 g5 35. hg5hg5 36. Nd5 Bc6 37. Nc7 Bf3 38. Ne8 Kh6 39. Nf6 Kg740. Kf2 Bd1 41. Nd7 c4 42. Kg3

Another great game by Bobby Fischer was his game against Mark Taimanov. This game is also called “Fischer Scientific” because it’s like Bobby Fischer had a whole formula to win. In the End game Bobby Fischer traded rooks and sacrificed his bishop so he could take the rest of his pawns so he could get two passed pawns. (pawns that had nothing in their way.) In the end Mark Taimanov resigned with no way to win.

Notation:1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cd4 4. Nd4 Qc7 5. Nc3 e6 6. g3 a67. Bg2 Nf6 8. O-O Nd4 9. Qd4 Bc5 10. Bf4 d6 11. Qd2 h612. Rad1 e5 13. Be3 Bg4 14. Bc5 dc5 15. f3 Be6 16. f4 Rd817. Nd5 Bd5 18. ed5 e4 19. Rfe1 Rd5 20. Re4 Kd8 21. Qe2Rd1 22. Qd1 Qd7 23. Qd7 Kd7 24. Re5 b6 25. Bf1 a5 26. Bc4Rf8 27. Kg2 Kd6 28. Kf3 Nd7 29. Re3 Nb8 30. Rd3 Kc731. c3 Nc6 32. Re3 Kd6 33. a4 Ne7 34. h3 Nc6 35. h4 h536. Rd3 Kc7 37. Rd5 f5 38. Rd2 Rf6 39. Re2 Kd7 40. Re3 g641. Bb5 Rd6 42. Ke2 Kd8 43. Rd3 Kc7 44. Rd6 Kd6 45. Kd3Ne7 46. Be8 Kd5 47. Bf7 Kd6 48. Kc4 Kc6 49. Be8 Kb750. Kb5 Nc8 51. Bc6 Kc7 52. Bd5 Ne7 53. Bf7 Kb7 54. Bb3Ka7 55. Bd1 Kb7 56. Bf3 Kc7 57. Ka6 Ng8 58. Bd5 Ne759. Bc4 Nc6 60. Bf7 Ne7 61. Be8 Kd8 62. Bg6 Ng6 63. Kb6Kd7 64. Kc5 Ne7 65. b4 ab4 66. cb4 Nc8 67. a5 Nd6 68. b5Ne4 69. Kb6 Kc8 70. Kc6 Kb8 71. b6   checkmate being inevitable also if not done anything threatening checkmate with his pawns on b6 and a5.

One of Fischer’s best game is his game with Boris Spassky (Fischer playing white and Spassky playing black) also called “Best By Protest”. Bobby Fischer was down a rook but with his Brilliant moves he made it so that Spassky would either have to lose his queen get checkmated and if he lost his queen not too long afterwards he would probably get checkmated.

Notation: 1. c4 e6 2. Nf3 d5 3. d4 Nf6 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bg5 O-O 6. e3 h67. Bh4 b6 8. cd5 Nd5 9. Be7 Qe7 10. Nd5 ed5 11. Rc1 Be612. Qa4 c5 13. Qa3 Rc8 14. Bb5 a6 15. dc5 bc5 16. O-O Ra717. Be2 Nd7 18. Nd4 Qf8 19. Ne6 fe6 20. e4 d4 21. f4 Qe722. e5 Rb8 23. Bc4 Kh8 24. Qh3 Nf8 25. b3 a5 26. f5 ef527. Rf5 Nh7 28. Rcf1 Qd8 29. Qg3 Re7 30. h4 Rbb7 31. e6Rbc7 32. Qe5 Qe8 33. a4 Qd8 34. R1f2 Qe8 35. R2f3 Qd836. Bd3 Qe8 37. Qe4 Nf6 38. Rf6 gf6 39. Rf6 Kg8 40. Bc4Kh8 41. Qf4

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