My 60 memorable games

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My 60 Memorable Games (Original title: My 60 Memorable Games ) is a 1969 published chess book in which the chess grandmaster and later world champion Bobby Fischer his games from 1957 presents a selection to the 1967th

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Fischer discusses 60 of his own games, which he analyzes completely, i.e. in all game phases from the opening to the endgame . There are tournament games against world-class players such as Pál Benkő , Michail Botwinnik , Max Euwe , Efim Geller , Svetozar Gligorić , Viktor Kortschnoi , Bent Larsen , Miguel Najdorf , Paul Keres , Tigran Petrosjan , Lajos Portisch , Samuel Reshevsky , Wassili Smyslow , Boris Spasski , Leonid Stein , László Szabó and Michail Tal in addition to games against American champions, a free game against Reuben Fine (Game 44) and also a simultaneous game (Game 50). In this way Fischer also presents the then modern state of opening theory, but the focus of his comments is on thorough analyzes of the middle and endgame phase . In games against Soviet players, Fischer often contrasts his analyzes with those in Soviet chess magazines and accuses them of ideologically motivated partisan evaluations in favor of Fischer's opponents. Each game has its own epitaph-like title and an introduction by chess master and journalist Larry Evans . Fischer also includes draw and loss games in his game collection, while many other masters only publish collections of their own winning games.

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The book My 60 Memorable Games was published in 1969 in the USA by Simon & Schuster and in Great Britain by Faber and Faber, each in descriptive chess notation . A German edition in algebraic notation was published by the Hamburg publisher Dr. Eduard Wildhagen published under the title My 60 memorable games .

In 1972 a Russian, algebraically notated edition appeared in the Soviet Union. At a press conference on September 1, 1992, one day before the start of the competition with Boris Spasski in Sveti Stefan ( Yugoslavia ), Fischer accused Russia of having withheld the royalties for the publication of the book despite his repeated warnings. He accused Russia of having violated international copyright agreements by printing 50,000 copies in the USSR and refused any contact with Russians until the royalties were paid out. The dispute was finally settled in late 1995 when the newly elected FIDE President Ilyumschinov paid US $ 100,000 .

In 1995 the English publisher Batsford also published an English edition in algebraic notation. Fischer then accused the publisher at a press conference in Buenos Aires in 1996 that the edition was unauthorized and also full of errors and falsified his work. It also turned out that in the course of the transfer of the notation and the editing of the text for game 35, Fischer versus Julio Bolbochán in Stockholm 1962, a variant had been added which contained a move that was impossible according to the rules of chess.

At the end of 2007, an allegedly illegally copied follow-up edition called My 61 Memorable Games appeared on the Internet auction platform eBay . The auction was later removed. In a correspondence with the adjuster, Larry Evans researched the background and came to the conclusion that it was a fraudulently manufactured fake .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dragoslv Andric: Bobby Fischer versus Spassky, Chess Report 10/1992, p. 5
  2. ↑ Президент ФИДЕ Кирсан Илюмжинов: "Фишер попросил сто тысяч наличными, черного хлеба и икры ..." (Russian) ... "
  3. ↑ Edward Winter: Fischer's Fury (1999)
  4. ^ New York Times Chess Blog: Updating a Classic, or Is It a Hoax? . December 17, 2007 (English).
  5. ↑ Larry Evans: My 61 Memorable Games: A Mystery . USCF . February 1, 2008. Retrieved October 17, 2009.
  6. ↑ Larry Evans: 61 Memorable Games: A Hoax . April 10, 2008 (English).

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