Bobby Fischer's Immortal Game!

Hello everyone! Today we're taking a look at Bobby Fischer's immortal chess game played against the master Peter Daly who was Hungarian. It's a very beautiful game because Bobby Fischer played brilliantly and also very fast. What I mean by that is that you have to stick till the end of the video to see how many moves it took Fischer to destroy his opponent. Fischer has the white pieces and the game begins with e4, c5, Nf3, d6 and d4. Here we enter the classical Sicilian variation and also we have the first trade of the game. C takes on d4, knight takes on d4 and after all the knights develop here we see the move bishop to c4 which is also known as the Sozin attack and Fischer targets the pawn on f7 near the king and this often is leading to sharp attacking games. Black replies with pawn to e6 blocking the diagonal and white calmly plays bishop to b3 which is a prophylactic move. But so does Black playing the move pawn to a6. This is also a prophylactic move because a6 stops these knights from jumping to b5 often creating some problems for Black on d6. So this is also a very good prophylactic move. Here Robert James Fischer plays a great move. The moment that his opponent played the move on the outskirts of the board Fischer realized that he is very active in the center. Given that he has this important pawn and also his minor pieces attack very important squares in the center so he must play the move pawn to f4 which prepares the move f5 to break open the king side and attack the king. Black responds with queen to a5 controlling key squares and threatening knight to e4 because there is a pin. So when the queen moved here suddenly this knight is pinned so the defense on e4 is loose. But white simply castles and now the knight is no longer pinned so the pawn has a proper defense. Black then tries tactics with knight takes d4 and after queen takes d4 we have a rather simple move pawn to d5 and at first glance this might look like a blunder because white has four pieces attacking this pawn while black has only three of them defending. So this looks like a free pawn but you have to be very careful because taking this pawn is actually a blunder. You lose the game after bishop to c5 because the queen is pinned to the king. So when Fischer's opponent played this move d5 it is not just a free pawn. The idea is to open the scope for this bishop in order to pin the queen. However Fischer observed this and he simply goes bishop to e3 stopping this idea because we have enough attackers now. Black captures with knight to e4 trying to simplify and after knight to e4 and d takes on e4 we reach the first critical moment. Instead of calmly recapturing this pawn on e4 Fischer launches an attack with pawn to f5 prioritizing initiative over material. And also this is a very instructive move and I want to you an advice. See whenever you have castled and your opponent left his king in the middle of the board you want to open the position. You want to attack his king but you have to make ways for your pieces to attack. So by playing the move f5 you really want to open this f-file potentially open the e-file and be ready to destroy the king. So f5 is a great great move. Black under pressure with an uncastled king tries to simplify by offering a queen trade on b4 but Fischer responds brilliantly with f takes on e6 and he actually allows the trade to happen. However this will be a blunder because if queen takes on d4 we have an in-between move. We firstly take the pawn on f7 and after that we take his queen and this position is easily winning for Fischer because he is up a pawn and and to top it off black has no development and the king stuck in the middle of the board. So after f takes on e6 black must respond with bishop to e6 and white again takes the bishop and ignores the queen trade. So the same idea will repeat. If the queen takes the queen then we play the second in-between move. Bishop takes f7 and after the king runs away then it's time to take the queen. So after bishop to e6 black must ignore the trade of queens and reply with f takes back on e6 allowing the queens to be postponed. Now it's time for Fischer to demonstrate why he is considered one of the greatest chess players of all time. I recommend you pause the video and try to find the winning move yourself but I am going to tell you that this is a brilliant sequence. So the move is rook takes on f8 a full rook sacrifice but I want to explain the thought process. See here Fischer could take black's queen however it is defended by the bishop so we want to remove the defender. This is why we play rook takes on f8. Of course the king and the rook cannot take back because we will simply win the queen so his only option is to take back with his own queen. Fischer continues with queen to a4 a forcing move and incredibly black resigned here and even though Fischer won this game in 17 moves you must not click away because we haven't discussed what happens if black tries to run away or if he tries to block the check. So first of all let's take a look at the most obvious responses. We will start with king to e7 which is simply winning because we just take his queen. The same thing applies for king to f7. This time we deliver a check with the rook and after the king moves away we take his queen. So the last available king move is the move king to d8 but here we have a checkmate sequence after bishop to b6 king to c8 queen c4 and queen to c7 checkmate. So the most logical response after queen to a4 is pawn to b5 blocking the attack. Here there are no more available checks for white but we have this resource queen to e4 targeting the rook and the pawn at the same time. The rook will most likely go to d8 just to be closer to the king and we deliver a check to c6. The rook must block and here we go rook to d1 applying more pressure. The rook cannot take our rook because it is pinned to the king. So the queen must come to e7 and defend the rook but here we have to be really careful. If we want to be genius and play the move bishop to g5 it's actually a blunder even though it looks fire because the bishop cannot be taken otherwise he will just lose the rook. Here black has a savage move castling at move number 21 and yes we can take his queen but suddenly it's checkmate. So here we have to be really careful and not fall into this trap by playing bishop to g5 even though it looks very very tempting. Instead we have to play bishop to b6 threatening a lot of attacks and after a move like rook to f8 we simply go queen c8 and after the king runs away we take on d7 and we easily win this game. An absolute masterpiece by Fischer full of brilliant sacrifices and rapid development and also a very complex game. This just goes to show that attacking chess can both be brutal and beautiful at the same time. If you like the video please leave a like, comment your favorite move and subscribe to the channel to not miss any other interesting videos.