Monday, February 20, 2023

After One Time

Interviewed by Montevideo Portal on February 4, 2023, Argentine-Italian chess Grandmaster Carlos Horacio García Palermo provided his interlocutor with a photo of the scoresheet of his second simultaneous game against Bobby Fischer, played a year after his first and most famous one. “[It was] A simultaneous display in San Martín, Buenos Aires, given by Fischer against the best players in the country except Masters. I was invited, I scored a draw. Subsequently, thanks to the engines, I discovered that I was lost, but he didn’t noticed it. He didn’t lose a single game in that simul”, García Palermo recalls. “Both in the first and the second simultaneous, he always played risky, very on the edge. In many games he didn’t take any precautions, he went straight for the jugular. That made him an admired and daring player, even though, as Spassky objected at one time, one cannot play to win in all positions”.

[Event "17-board simultaneous exhibition"]
[Site "San Martín, Buenos Aires ARG"]
[Date "1971.11.17"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Fischer, Robert James"]
[Black "García Palermo, Carlos Horacio"]
[ECO "C81"]
[Result "½-½"]
[PlyCount "70"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O b5 6.Bb3 Nxe4 7.d4 d5 8.dxe5 Be6 9.Qe2 Be7 10.Rd1 0-0 11.c4 bxc4 12.Bxc4 Qd7 13.Nc3 Nxc3 14.bxc3 f6 15.exf6 Bxf6 16.Bg5 Rae8 17.Bxf6 Rxf6 18.Ng5 Ne7 19.Bxa6 Ng6 20.Qh5 Bg4 21.Qxh7+ Kf8 22.f3 Bf5 23.Bf1 Re3 24.h4 Qd6 25.h5 Ne7 26.Qh8+ Ng8 27.Rab1 Bxb1 28.Rxb1 Qc5 29.Kh1 Re8 30.Nh7+ Kf7 31.Ng5+ Kf8 32.Bd3 Qf2 33.Nh7+ Kf7 34.Ng5+ Kf8 35.Nh7+ Kf7 ½-½

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