Best Chess Game Of The 20th Century

welcome ladies and gentlemen to this video on an  amazing historical game played by the chess legend  

bobby fischer the year is 1956 the setting is the  martial chess club in new york city i've played  

many tournaments there over the course of my life  bobby fisher is 13 years old and his opponent is  

donald byrne the brother of robert byrne both  of them fantastic american talents donald played  

many olympiads for the national chess team of the  united states but in this game dubbed the game of  

the century now i'm just going to say that this is  probably the american game of the century because  

in the 20th century there was a lot of games  also in the soviet union which were amazing but  

this is the american game of the century and in  this game we get to see an early glimpse of the  

genius of bobby fischer and what he would go on  to become nothing else to say let's go knight f3  

played by donald uh and we're looking at it from  bobby's perspective knight f6 c4 so this is the  

ready opening both knights coming out now we have  something known as a transposition so white could  

have started with this pawn push but plays it on  the second move now it's an english opening black  

plays g6 bobby was a big fan of putting his bishop  out this way and then ultimately fighting for the  

center a little bit later and we get knight to  c3 by whites uh and here bobby plays bishop g7 d4  

and castles so he finishes his full developing  setup before choosing what to do with his center  

pawn so far we have no real understanding of  where his other center pawns are going to go  

he's playing a very flexible setup he would  say well why would black just give up all  

this center control well as chess progressed in  the kind of later 20th century and now it's 2021  

when i'm recording this video i'm not sure when  you're watching in the future but um there was  

an understanding that you didn't need to put pawns  into the center to fight for the center you could  

actually control the center like this this is  known as the king's indian defense and you would  

be able to kind of target the enemy pieces which  defended that center and slowly chip away at it  

in this game after bishop f4 bobby actually plays  the move d5 so d5 is a transposition i said that  

word earlier not to a king's indian defense but  something known as the grunfeld now the grunfeld  

spell gru with the with the two dots uh n-f-e-l-d  is one of the most complex if not the most complic  

complex openings in all of chess if you're a  beginner intermediate even an advanced player  

i would say stay away from it uh enjoy chess while  you can there are so many densities i don't even  

know if that's a word there's so much depth of  variations in the grunfeld defense and here donald  

byrne plays the russian system now i don't know  if that was called the russian system back in the  

day but this looks kind of weird because it's like  why would you bring your queen out now i take take  

i mean as as beginners we're taught not to do this  we're not supposed to bring the queen out and also  

make multiple moves with the queen getting closer  to our opponent's territory but this is just  

one of many options white actually has a million  different options doesn't even need to go queen b3  

but does that here bobby play c6 he pushes the  pawn rather than developing the knight or the  

bishop because actually a move ago the queen and  the bishop both stared at that pawn c6 now white