Bobby Fischer's Inaccuracy Cost Him the Game Against Najdorf - Remote Chess Academy

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Last updated 12 abril 2025

Bobby Fischer's Inaccuracy Cost Him the Game Against Najdorf - Remote Chess Academy

Today we are going to take a look at an interesting game played between Miguel Najdorf and Bobby Fischer at the 2nd Piatigorsky Cup in the year 1966. It was a triennial series of double round-robin grandmaster chess tournaments held in the United States in the 1960s. The Piatigorsky Cups were the strongest U.S. chess tournaments since New York 1927. The Benoni variation was played from the King’s Indian Defense. What’s interesting about this game is that Fischer made a small inaccuracy on move 11, which the Polish-Argentinian grandmaster capitalized perfectly. Fischer played 11…b5 trying to expand his queenside, missing out on playing 11…Nh5, which would have led to the exchange of Najdorf’s strong bishop on g3. Najdorf quickly capitalized it and played 12.Nd2, which opened the diagonal for his e2-bishop, and now Nh5 became impossible for Fischer. A few moves later, Najdorf made a pawn break in the center, which gave him a passed pawn, and he eventually, won the game. Watch the interesting video analysis by our new guest coach FM Tomas Kapitanchuk: About the author Tomas Kapitanchuk is a FIDE Master from Argentina with a FIDE rating of 2346. He has a degree in Information Systems of Organizations at the University of Buenos Aires. He’s been coaching at some schools and chess clubs, generally destined to children. He has enjoyed those experiences a lot, and now he is focusing on players with higher level. He is training strong young players and foreigners (Mexico, Australia, UK, USA, and Canada). You can find the PGN of this game below: P.S. You may also like to watch GM Igor Smirnov’s latest video lesson “3 Chess Endgame Principles Every Chess Player Should Know”.