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Master Class Vol.1: Bobby Fischer
No other World Champion was more infamous both inside and outside the chess world than Bobby Fischer. On this DVD, a team of experts shows you the winning techniques and strategies employed by the 11th World Champion.
Grandmaster Dorian Rogozenco delves into Fischer’s openings, and retraces the development of his repertoire. What variations did Fischer play, and what sources did he use to arm himself against the best Soviet players? Mihail Marin explains Fischer’s particular style and his special strategic talent in annotated games against Spassky, Taimanov and other greats. Karsten Müller is not just a leading international endgame expert, but also a true Fischer connoisseur.
John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads
The chess pie is a southern pie from the United States of America, and that might be the only thing we can say for sure about this piece of cake. Most of the sources on this pie lead to Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery and Booke of Sweetmeats. The former first lady probably got this book out of England, where it was written in the 17th century, according to culinary historian Karen Loft Hess.
There are several funny and interesting theories of why the pie is called chess pie:
The most popular explanation is this one, taken from Sarah Belk [Simon and Schuster:New York] 1991 (p. 367-8) from Lynne Olver's foodtimeline.org website:
The cheese etymology seems the most likely one, because in old cookbooks, cheesecakes and pies that were sometimes made with cheese sometimes without (referring to cheese in the textural sense - lemon card, for example, is often referred to as lemon cheese), are often included in a single category. A selection of cheeseless "cheese" pastries in Housekeeping in Old Virginia (1879) are made with egg yolks, sugar, butter, milk, and lemon juice - very much like chess pie filling. Sometimes called "Cheesecake Pudding" (the filling is made of yolks, brown sugar, butter, nutmeg, and brandy or rum) is baked in a crust in small tins..."
Whatever the mystery about the chess cake origin is, it is no secret that it tastes delicious! Probably because it is mostly made of sugar...
A friend of mine gave me this recipe:
From Thelma's Treasures by Susanna Thomas
1 9" pie crust
recipe in the book
Filling:
Meringue Topping:
Furthermore, here is a YouTube video by Southern Living:
The amount of sugar at 0:40 makes me cry
Endgames of the World Champions from Fischer to Carlsen
Let endgame expert Dr Karsten Müller show and explain the finesses of the world champions. Although they had different styles each and every one of them played the endgame exceptionally well, so take the opportunity to enjoy and learn from some of the best endgames in the history of chess.
Bobby Fischer won the US Championship 1963/64 with 11/11 points! He was just 20 years old when this extraordinary result was accomplished. Never again could this 100% perfect score be reached in the US Championship.
Game number ten against Pal Benko in particular is remarkable. So remarkable, that a chess cake with an actual position of the game was made for Fischer after the tournament.
Here is a tweet by Douglas Griffin with Bobby Fischer's chess cake.
After winning the 1963 US Championship with an unprecedented (& unrepeated) perfect score of 11/11, Bobby Fischer is presented with a cake. On the 'board', the position after 19.Rf6! from his win v. Benko, which features in 'My 60 Memorable Games'. (Photo credit: unknown.) #chess pic.twitter.com/NW5nnqdUxD
— Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess) August 21, 2018
Suren Aghabekyan tells us even more about the Bobby Fischer chess cake story:
The US Championship table from the ChessBase Mega Database
All the games played in the US Championship 1963
And the special "cake" game