The Only Game They EVER Played || Mikhail Botvinnik vs Bobby Fischer

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  @josepandreu7448 · 8 years ago

  "Botvinnik had to start playing chess" So much said in just one sentence

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• ZI

  @zionburner · 8 years ago

  I think Fischer played an outstanding game considering that he was not facing Botvinnik alone, he was facing all the strongest soviet grandmasters minds behind Botvirnnik's hands

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  @mohammedayman2959 · 8 years ago

  Actually Effim Geller was the genius behind the endgame Botvinnik played for a very simple reason that Botvinnik is notoriously known for his strict health system and he refused to spend the hours he should be sleeping in on analyzing games so he gave it to Geller who came the next morning with the drawing line.<br>Many years later Botvinnik said that he gave this position to 13 year-old Garry Kasparov to analyze and he found another drawing line other than the one that was played.<br>So many great stories about that game that even a 20-minute video wasn&apos;t enough to cover them all..<br>But great work nonetheless Antonio.. as usual

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• WI

  @wizard32102 · 5 years ago

  I recognized everyone in the picture they are all Chess Players

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• PE

  @pelimies1818 · 6 years ago

  People in the photo, from left to right:<br>Man-with-the-mustache-1<br>Man-with-the-mustache-2<br>Man-with-the-mustache-3..

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  @damchuipanmei1326 · 8 years ago (edited)

  &apos;&apos;Fisher very unsatisfied getting up from the table and you can see botvinik with a smile he was able to draw a game against bobby fisher with the white pieces&apos;&apos;. 😂 lol

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  @AkumaAPN · 6 years ago (edited)

  Stockfish 11 disagrees with Botvinnik&apos;s blind assessment at the adjournment, when he said the game would be &quot;a draw&quot; no matter what Fischer sealed. After 22 hours, and 139 Billion Nodes, in depth 77, Stockfish evaluates Fischer&apos;s position at +1.44 if he seals the best move, which is h7-h5. Unfortunately, Fischer sealed an inferior move, because after Rook to c5, Stockfish evaluates the game as drawn by depth 59. After 9 hours, and 62 Billion Nodes, at depth 73, it is still dead drawn.<br>..<br>I have evaluated various positions further down the line from h7-h5, and black continues to maintain an advantage of about +1.30 to +1.50 with best play from both sides.<br>..<br>After h7-h5, the best line appears to be something like this:<br>(45. a2-a4, h7-h5.)<br>46. h3-h4+, Kg5-h6. -- (Botvinnik would start here after the adjournment.)<br>47. Rf3-f4, Rc7-c5.<br>48. f2-f3, Kh6-g7.<br>49. Kg3-g2, a7-a6. -- (By depth 56, black&apos;s a7-a6 is valued around +1.40 to +1.70.)<br>50. Rf4-d4, Rc5-c6.<br>51. Rd4-d5, Kg7-f6. -- (By depth 60, various sessions are converging on a valuation around +2.50.)<br>..<br>Two sessions have diverged at move 52, but by move 54, both are peaking around +3.00 for black. I will report on these lines later. It would seem that slowly, but surely, black may have a winning line somewhere.<br>..<br>UPDATE --<br>..<br>I&apos;ve been running sessions on and off for the past couple of weeks to come up with a strong line for both sides. Continuing off the line above, after 51. Rd4-d5, Kg7-f6, the line continues to improve for black. By move 57, the engines finally sense that a mating sequence is on the horizon, with evaluations jumping up above +45 after hours of analysis. And by move 62, black begins forcing the trades, and pushing the pawn to victory. When the Queen is finally promoted around move 70 or 71, it&apos;s a Rook vs. Queen endgame, and the engines are able to reduce the line to about Mate in 30 from that point. After 25 or so moves of maneuvering, the Queen eventually forces the fork, and then checkmates the Black King shortly thereafter. What follows is a solid line for Black to earn the Queen, with some of the evaluation notes.<br>..<br>52. Kg2-f2, Kf6-e7. -- (-2.70 white, depth 59/95-, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94W--f7VT5w&amp;t=5688">1:34:48</a>, 9.643-Bn) (+2.81 black, depth 56/85, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94W--f7VT5w&amp;t=1353">22:33</a>, 2.33-Bn) <br>53. Rd5-d4, b6-b5. -- (+5.32 black, depth 66/108, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94W--f7VT5w&amp;t=68521">19:02:01</a>, 117.199-Bn) <br>54. a4xb5, a6xb5. <br>55. Rd4-b4, Rc6-b6. <br>56. Kf2-e3, Ke7-d6. <br>57. Rb4-f4, b5-b4. -- (+17 by depth 31, new line coming) (+48.06 by depth 36 thru 46) (+47.92 by depth 51) <br>58. Ke3-d2, b4-b3. -- (+48.41)<br>59. Kd2-c3, Kd6-e5. -- (+48.06 )<br>60. Rf4-e4+, Ke5-f5. -- (+48.06/47.77 )<br>61. Kc3-b2, Rb6-b5. -- (+47.49) (switched to new line, eval down to +39) (new line back up to +47.77) <br>62. Re4-c4, g6-g5.. -- (+47.77)<br>..<br>Now that black has finally pushed the g-pawn, the white engines sweat out many alternate lines, but all lines end with the same result: black will get that Queen very soon.<br>..<br>63. Kb2-c1, b3-b2+. (+M41)<br>64. Kc1-b1, g5xh4.<br>65. Rc4xh4, Kf5-g5.<br>66. Rh4-c4, Rb5-f5.<br>67. Kb1xb2, Rf5xf3. (+M34)<br>68. Kb2-c2, h5-h4. (+M33)<br>69. Kc2-d1, h4-h3.<br>70. Kd1-e2, h3-h2.<br>71. Ke2xf3, h2-h1Q+. (+M30)<br>..<br>Once the Queen is on the board, all of the engines agree over various lines that black sits around +M30 to +M33. There are several ways to do it, and some of the lines are very instructive. Anyone with a strong engine can add this line to the PGN, and see if you can win from there!<br>..<br>For your convenience, here is an alternate PGN containing all of the moves I listed:<br>..<br>1. c4 g6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. Qb3 dc4 6. Qc4 O-O 7. e4 Bg4 8. Be3 Nfd7 9. Be2 Nc6 10. Rd1 Nb6 11. Qc5 Qd6 12. h3 Bf3 13. gf3 Rfd8 14. d5 Ne5 15. Nb5 Qf6 16. f4 Ned7 17. e5 Qf4 18. Bf4 Nc5 19. Nc7 Rac8 20. d6 ed6 21. ed6 Bb2 22. O-O Nbd7 23. Rd5 b6 24. Bf3 Ne6 25. Ne6 fe6 26. Rd3 Nc5 27. Re3 e5 28. Be5 Be5 29. Re5 Rd6 30. Re7 Rd7 31. Rd7 Nd7 32. Bg4 Rc7 33. Re1 Kf7 34. Kg2 Nc5 35. Re3 Re7 36. Rf3 Kg7 37. Rc3 Re4 38. Bd1 Rd4 39. Bc2 Kf6 40. Kf3 Kg5 41. Kg3 Ne4 42. Be4 Re4 43. Ra3 Re7 44. Rf3 Rc7 45. a4 h5 46. h4+ Kh6 47. Rf4 Rc5 48. f3 Kg7 49. Kg2 a6 50. Rd4 Rc6 51. Rd5 Kf6 52. Kf2 Ke7 53. Rd4 b5 54. axb5 axb5 55. Rb4 Rb6 56. Ke3 Kd6 57. Rf4 b4 58. Kd2 b3 59. Kc3 Ke5 60. Re4+ Kf5 61. Kb2 Rb5 62. Rc4 g5 63. Kc1 b2+ 64. Kb1 gxh4 65. Rxh4 Kg5 66. Rc4 Rf5 67. Kxb2 Rxf3 68. Kc2 h4 69. Kd1 h3 70. Ke2 h2 71. Kxf3 h1Q+<br>..<br>Edit: I went back and ran a new session for White&apos;s response, after Black promotes the Queen. By the time it reaches depth 60, after over 4.7 hours, it says White&apos;s best move will be valued at -M29, which is in agreement with the Queen promotion being evaluated at +M30. However, once this session reached depth 61, and continuing to depth 96 after almost 8 hours, the eval has improved to -M28. By depth 110, after 20+ hours, it&apos;s just repeating the same line over and over again, clearly confirming that the limit here is -M28. So we can say retroactively that from the given position, black&apos;s Queen promotion was to be valued at +M29.

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  @MuhammadAlrashed · 6 years ago

  &quot;I do not have access to this information&quot; what a nice phrase to hear in this day and age

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  @FirstNameLastName-tc2ok · 8 years ago

  that is the most epic photo I&apos;ve seen in my life

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• MU

  @muskyoxes · 6 years ago

  tal adjourned his own game at the same time as this one, but he spent all night analyzing Botvinnik&apos;s game instead of his own, along with the rest of the whole country.

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  @tan116A · 8 years ago

  I like how he says &quot;agadmator&apos;s dog&quot; and doesn&apos;t even flinch.

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  @Attlanttizz · 8 years ago

  I recognized none, for the record ;-)

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