Bobby Fischer STINGS Lombardy

Featured is the chess game between William Lombardy and Bobby Fischer from the 1960/61 United States Chess Championship. This is the 25th game in Fischer’s famous book, “My 60 Memorable Games”. In the middlegame, Fischer executes an excellent combination, with the standout move described as "The scorpion's sting at the tail-end of the combination." The game proceeds to an instructive endgame, ultimately simplifying into a winning king and pawn endgame.
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  • @elieobeid77
    @elieobeid777 ай бұрын

    crazy to see the chart, 98% accuracy for a game played in the 60s, even his opponent, 93% accuracy is awesome! these numbers are amazing today even.

  • @boodabill

    @boodabill

    7 ай бұрын

    Even the one inaccuracy ends up creating an advantage.

  • @constantijndekker8343

    @constantijndekker8343

    7 ай бұрын

    Awesome moves, except perhaps for Re1 allowing Rxc3 which is easy win for player of Fisher’s calliber

  • @markiyanhapyak349

    @markiyanhapyak349

    7 ай бұрын

    What does the accuracy percentage mean in chess?

  • @elieobeid77

    @elieobeid77

    7 ай бұрын

    @@markiyanhapyak349 they analyze the game using modern chess computers (called engines). The higher the score the more the computer thinks you made a good move and vise versa. Computers are much stronger than humans. The high score means that those players were playing pretty much like a computer.

  • @markiyanhapyak349

    @markiyanhapyak349

    7 ай бұрын

    Mh; nice. And what would be the differenze between 98 and 99 %? 😇 …could It be notised?

  • @michaelgregory7183
    @michaelgregory71837 ай бұрын

    I liked how you could somewhat see Fishers personality in his chess play. Very interesting video.

  • @ReflectionOcean
    @ReflectionOcean7 ай бұрын

    - Study the Prince Variation to control key squares (start: 0:48). - Consider gambits for development and psychological advantage (start: 2:30). - Evaluate the middle game for combination opportunities (start: 4:16). - Use tactical moves like B4 to challenge your opponent's strategy (start: 4:20). - Recognize the 'scorpion's sting' in a combination for a winning edge (start: 5:58). - In endgames, aim for active rooks and king centralization (start: 7:10). - Leverage material advantage to transition into a winning endgame (start: 9:32). - Recognize the power of an outside passed rook pawn in king and pawn endings (start: 10:13). - Be precise in pawn structure manipulation even with a winning advantage (start: 10:47).

  • @enkor9591

    @enkor9591

    3 ай бұрын

    It's Prins variation

  • @RicardGomes76
    @RicardGomes767 ай бұрын

    98% acuracy. No engines. Nufsaid. GOAT. TY GM 👍

  • @jeremyhuffman101

    @jeremyhuffman101

    7 ай бұрын

    If Fischer were born in 1990 he'd have crushed Magnus.

  • @MaXyM_TaRaN
    @MaXyM_TaRaN5 ай бұрын

    When I read Bobby Fisher's books, I gained a lot of new knowledge from what he wrote. He was a very talented chess player.

  • @user-qb3lf6zx4q
    @user-qb3lf6zx4q7 ай бұрын

    Thank you Jerry!

  • @jakedardaris452
    @jakedardaris4527 ай бұрын

    I am always mesmerized by how simple and strong Fischer’s play is

  • @PeterPan-cy7oy
    @PeterPan-cy7oy7 ай бұрын

    nice work as usual

  • @diegomonteiro1366
    @diegomonteiro13667 ай бұрын

    Jerry, I’m from Brazil! My favorite chess channel is yours here! I like the way you analyze all the games. Keep up the good work, bro! Cheers from Brazil!

  • @ChessNetwork

    @ChessNetwork

    7 ай бұрын

    👍😎

  • @MrPixifan
    @MrPixifan7 ай бұрын

    Thanks for another review, followed your channel since 2012

  • @ChessNetwork

    @ChessNetwork

    7 ай бұрын

    👍

  • @thiseasathens
    @thiseasathens2 ай бұрын

    good analysis as always

  • @carbonlove
    @carbonlove7 ай бұрын

    "B4 you can play knight B4" really scrambled my brain

  • @user-kh6xl4yg1j
    @user-kh6xl4yg1jАй бұрын

    The break through simplifying rook sac wasn’t surprising, but the early d5 sac is. Fischer pre-game prep on openings & middle games, in his pre-chess engine era, was just extraordinary.

  • @joseraulcapablanca8564
    @joseraulcapablanca85647 ай бұрын

    Have the book and love it, this is a great game. Your analysis brings something fresh to it. Thanks Jerry.

  • @triscuit5103
    @triscuit51037 ай бұрын

    Incredible video, thank you Gary ❤

  • @user-qb3lf6zx4q

    @user-qb3lf6zx4q

    7 ай бұрын

    LOL 🤣

  • @chivechan1233
    @chivechan12337 ай бұрын

    What's up Jerry! Just got back into chess and you've always been my favorite / go-to chess channel throughout all the years. Hope you're doing well broski!

  • @grouchomcgrouch4150
    @grouchomcgrouch41507 ай бұрын

    Awesome, thanks Jerry!

  • @shivaji856
    @shivaji8567 ай бұрын

    I feel bad not meeting Bobby in my life time.

  • @chessanalysis64
    @chessanalysis647 ай бұрын

    Thanks Jerry, Cool Analysis as Usual. !!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @vishalramesh6001
    @vishalramesh60017 ай бұрын

    Please cover more of Fischer games , they r fire 🔥and ur analysis too🔥

  • @ediw2246

    @ediw2246

    7 ай бұрын

    Every 60 games from book please.

  • @samreimer6265
    @samreimer6265Ай бұрын

    Further to the discussion of 37… f4: Fischer was also a complete sadist on the board! This is complete speculation, but I think he derived a bit of pleasure from his opponent’s helplessness, and had no problem taking his time and making his opponent watch as he closes in for the kill.

  • @AgnaktoreX
    @AgnaktoreX7 ай бұрын

    wonderful one

  • @arthurbalado6022
    @arthurbalado60223 ай бұрын

    I thought Lombardy had A LOT to play FOR with the pawns in the last stage. Black pawn from G7 to G5 should have been taken en passant White H5). But his mistake was also to chase his white pawns in C3 and D4. That was a huge miscalculation. It might have ended up in a draw. But still Fischer lucidity in the mid-game truly sensational. NO RESPITE to the opponent. Thank you Jerry

  • @immenseimmense9302

    @immenseimmense9302

    2 ай бұрын

    Against a player like fischer, not really. hxg6 can be met with hxg6 and nothing changes. if white abandons defense of c3 to rush the kingside, it would be much too slow to match the a pawn. a chess player of fischers caliber (or even just a chess player with solid endgame fundamentals) should pretty much never not win a position like that

  • @PickedaName_
    @PickedaName_7 ай бұрын

    This was a great game. Both players were attacking with traps and counters

  • @denisrho1019
    @denisrho10193 ай бұрын

    Eventually, CAN YOU (please) display the chart in full-size, one screen. As I watch most of your videos on my cell phone!

  • 7 ай бұрын

    The scorpion's tail is a combination I've just learned from this video. I even considered giving that check, but dismissed it because White can block it with a counterattack, still leaving Black with 2 hanging bishops. Hanging a piece is different from hanging it in a checking square, though. The latter is a full free piece (if there is no counterattacking response to the check) while the former is just half a free piece (because the opponent actually has to spend a move to get it). Half pieces can be counted as belonging to the player to move next, and since the original situation was a full free piece (bishop on E7) plus a half one (bishop on B5) - 1.5 free pieces with black to move are 2 free pieces, and white can only offset it by 1 by taking a bishop. But inserting the scorpion's tail the situation is converted into 2 half free pieces, which equals 1, and that is perfectly offset by capturing one. This, by the way, only works with an even number of hanging pieces. If a single piece is hanging, and it's on a checking square, it costs a move to save it, just as it costs a move to save it even if it's not on a checking square. 1 and 0.5 both round up to 1. But 0.5 + 0.5 round up to 1, while 1 + 0.5 round up to 2. Let's say though that we have 3 hanging pieces - one of them on a checking square. Then we will lose 1 + 0.5 + 0.5 = 2 pieces, and even if we use a scorpion's tail to convert 1 to 0.5, 3 times 0.5 still rounds up to 2. This corresponds to the fact that the moves will be (take 1 +), (escape check); (take 1), (save 1); in the original case, and (take 1), (save 1); (take 1) in the other.

  • @bpro5848
    @bpro58487 ай бұрын

    🔥

  • @ashoksafaya5397
    @ashoksafaya53977 ай бұрын

    Extra pawn moves available with Fischer made him winner in my opinion.Thanks.

  • @NotAgainEnzo
    @NotAgainEnzo7 ай бұрын

    Can you show a game where the tarasch defense is used

  • @nicbentulan
    @nicbentulan6 ай бұрын

    Jerry, should the upcoming 2024 WFRCC be classical?

  • @alvarocastroregueiro
    @alvarocastroregueiro4 ай бұрын

    brilliant bishop h4 check, thank you for the video. I always have read that fischer books weren't written by him. Do you recommend his books? Are truly his? Thank you

  • @jeremyhuffman101
    @jeremyhuffman1017 ай бұрын

    Great as always Jerry! This might be the first time I've gotten every "pause the video". Nice tactics to find!

  • @dibobble
    @dibobble7 ай бұрын

    Jerry!

  • @MoonBurn13
    @MoonBurn137 ай бұрын

    I got the final combo with …RxBch, and - for once - all the followup. I think I’d have to go through the middle game again with its 2 minors for 1 Rook exchange to really appreciate this one tho. Because otherwise, even “getting” the final combination, it struck me as kind of ugly. Thanks Jerry.

  • @jeffreyknapp945
    @jeffreyknapp9457 ай бұрын

    You're right, Nf4 is better. Black's response is ...g4 though.

  • @mylifemyhacks4283
    @mylifemyhacks42837 ай бұрын

    🎉

  • @YingTou1
    @YingTou17 ай бұрын

    Could White have played any moves instead of (29)Rg1 - (30)Re1 that would have averted this winning Black combi? Which?

  • @loplop7029
    @loplop70297 ай бұрын

    Hi Jerry.

  • @rabbishekelstein
    @rabbishekelstein7 ай бұрын

    outflanked

  • @Gru39
    @Gru397 ай бұрын

    White didn't castle all game

  • @c2c001
    @c2c0017 ай бұрын

    There is much beauty in Fischer's play but the main thing I take from his games is... despite being titled, most of his opponents were severely lacking in fundamentals.

  • @dobtoronto

    @dobtoronto

    6 ай бұрын

    Agreed. This plays out like a blitz game. Bobby was the greatest of his era and did it without computers

  • @user-xw7hy6ko6z
    @user-xw7hy6ko6z4 ай бұрын

    stockfischer

  • @jamesdelb6885
    @jamesdelb68857 ай бұрын

    He made beating GMs look simple.

  • @c2c001

    @c2c001

    7 ай бұрын

    True, but these days these people would not be GMs. They were lacking fundamentals these days even 1800s would posses.

  • @alieninsectbass
    @alieninsectbass7 ай бұрын

    Bobby Fischer, more like Bob-bee Fischer. Hahaha given the title 🤣🐝 EDIT: Oh it's a scorpion not a bee lmao

  • @triscuit5103
    @triscuit51037 ай бұрын

    1st ❤

  • @oneleggedwonder7056
    @oneleggedwonder70567 ай бұрын

    2nd almost first lol

  • @ramazanhoxha4265
    @ramazanhoxha42657 ай бұрын

    white wasted too many moves with the same peace, in the opening stage, instead of castling...

  • @examiningdata7952
    @examiningdata79527 ай бұрын

    Everyone, , cheat cheat cheat 💻📳

  • @justarandomanimegirlpassin5341
    @justarandomanimegirlpassin53417 ай бұрын

    Bro you got the best chess recaps but instead you choose to cover spme 30 year old stuff thats already covered by dozens of chess chanels like common cover some of the recent events in the chess world

  • @Loots1

    @Loots1

    7 ай бұрын

    cry cry cry wah wah wah

  • @sonphantrung

    @sonphantrung

    7 ай бұрын

    This is why I like him, the OG of YT chess scene. No BS, minimal "clickbait" (titles made interesting enough to attract viewers, without overusing hyperboles), no controversies. Jerry deserves the "Internet chess teacher" much more than Levy.