Walter Shipman

It began to feel as though you were playing against chess itself. -- on playing against Robert Fischer.

If you are reading this instead of viewing a chess puzzle or game, then you must enable JavaScript on this website.

[Event "rated untimed match"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1973.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Estrin"]
[Black "Angelov"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Annotator "David Hayes"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[FEN "r6r/1p4p1/1n1P2k1/pN3p1q/Pn1P1Pp1/1B2B3/6P1/R2Q1RK1 b - - 0 1"]
[SetUp "1"]
[TimeControl "0"]
[WhiteElo "0"]

1... Nd3 2. Qxd3 g3 { The threat of Qh1# is decisive. } 3. Bf7+ Kxf7 4. Qxf5+ Qxf5 { Black wins with a large material advantage. } 5. Rf3 Qh5 6. Rxg3 Qh1+ 7. Kf2 Qxa1 8. Rf3 Nxa4 9. f5 Qb2+ 10. Kg3 Qxb5 11. Bf4 Qb4 12. Be5 Qe1+ 13. Rf2 Nc3 14. Kf3 Qe4+ 15. Kg3 Qe3+ 16. Rf3 Ne4+ 17. Kg4 Qg5# 0-1