Chess games of Robert James Fischer

I obtained almost 500 games of Fischer and compiled a book out of them.

I wondered how real was he about his "1. e4, Best by test" comment.

Source: https://books.google.hu/books?id=Whm_CAAAQBAJ&pg=RA4-PA60&dq=Fischer+60+memorable+games&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAmoVChMI9NDS5v_axwIVxV4UCh1rGgOQ#v=onepage&q=Fischer%2060%20memorable%20games%20best%20by%20test&f=false

Well, he was quite real:

And his record with this move was also not too bad...

what format is the book in bin? what gui is that? looks cool wish i could make books. i use hiarcs chess explorer wonder if i could do something similar with Fischer games

This is my own GUI which I'm developing in Java.

You can find it here:

https://github.com/myguibuilder/myguibuilder

I have a thread about the development of this program:

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/lets-write-a-chess-gui-from-scratch-in-java

I honestly want to analyze Fischer's games, but first I want to have a feature which not only counts the plays in a given position but also can list the games that belong to this position.

 Screenshot of the main window with the Fischer book:

I think now I've got it. It is still beta, but now I have a capacity to list games for a given position in the game viever and also sort them according to different keys:

For a start here is a game played in a simul in Houston 1964 against Robert Chalker, as viewed by the game viewer:

Chalker did not cause too much of a headache to Fischer:

Let's get down to business and start analyzing how Fischer actually played.

Fischer starts off by playing 1. e4

It is striking how much his opponents preferred playing 1. ... e5 ( King's pawn game ) or 1. ... c5 ( Sicilian ) as a response. He rarely had to face the French ( 2. ... e6 ) or the Caro-Kann ( 2. ... c6 ), almost never the Scandinavian ( 2. ... d5 ) or the Alekhine ( 2. ... Nf6 ).

cool. i downloaded your gui and have komodo working in it. nice touch putting the engine evaluation number on the board.

@Swifty357

I'm glad that you have run the program successfully. From the beginning it was my goal to develop a program that satisfies little needs that you can never expect from a major chess GUI. I always hated for example that I have to look at engine panel and in the forest of information I have to somehow find this little number, the evaluation, which the engine analysis is all about. No thanks, I want this number on the board, with big font size.

Speaking about computers:

When I was looking what Fischer played as a response to 1. e4 e5, of course it is no wonder that his main move was 2. Nf3:

However he also played the king's gambit a few times. I became curious and found an interesting game: a game against an engine by Greenblatt ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Greenblatt ) from 1977. Back in 1977 computer chess ( and computers in general ) were in their baby shoes, so playing an engine then was not the same as today. You could even afford playing the king's gambit, which would be a suicide against today's engines which simply take the free pawn and then happily play with this advantage.

Here is a video on the game by kingscrusher:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1-AiccCF7k