The front cover of "Tízezer Lépés
Morphyval" by Csaba Gerencsér (1995) and a portrait of
Paul Charles Morphy. Both were included in this
comprehensive article by Edward
Winter on the famous game.
The game Fischer discusses is one of the most famous in chess history. It is between the American master Paul Morphy and two strong amateurs, the German noble Duke Karl of Brunswick and the French aristocrat Count Isouard, who consulted together, playing as partners against Morphy. The game is often used by chess instructors to teach the importance of rapid development of one's pieces, the value of sacrifices in mating combinations, and other chess concepts.
The links to the videos below were provided by Edwin Meijer, Netherlands, who was the first to send them. Many thanks to the other readers who did so as well. We have captured all the moves and lines Fischer shows and present them in a JavaScript replay board, just below the video, so you can follow them as he speaks.
The interviewer in both videos is the Serbian journalist FM Dimitrije Bjelica, and the material was most probably shot in Sarajevo in 1970. The language Bjelica is translating into for his audience, partially understood by Fischer, is Serbo-Croatian. Viewer Daniel Newman writes: "It's apparent that Fischer is frustrated by this interviewer because being rudely interrupted. I would go nuts, and yet Fischer kept his cool. A good interviewer always lets you finish your thought. This guy doesn't even let you finish a sentence, let alone complete a thought. This is why whenever possible translation is done using subtitles."
28.9.2013 - Rare
video – Bobby Fischer analyses
Surely, we venture, you have not yet seen a video of the legendary American
World Chess Champion analysing a game. Well, here is a rare example: Bobby
Fischer explaining a miniature of Capablanca. We have reconstructed his
analysis so you can watch the video and simultaneously replay the moves
he is talking about on a JavaScript board. Historical footage.
