MARK RUBERY CHESS
In an exhibition game played straight after the Siegen Olympiad, Fischer defeated a 19-year-old Ulf Andersson by using a set-up that was later christened the ‘hedgehog’. This was the first high profile game introducing the system that was to become enormously popular in the decades to follow-particularly with the black pieces. Fischer, R - Andersson, U [A01]
Siegen, 1970
1.b3 e5 2.Bb2 Nc6 3.c4 Nf6 4.e3 Be7
5.a3 0–0 6.Qc2 Re8 7.d3 (The pawns on the third rank defend the position like the spine of a hedgehog) ... Bf8 8.Nf3 a5 9.Be2 d5 10.cxd5 Nxd5 11.Nbd2 f6 12.0–0 Be6 13.Kh1 (The beginning of a far from obvious plan) ... Qd7 14.Rg1 Rad8
15.Ne4 Qf7 16.g4 g6 (A better try was 16...Nb6 17.Nfd2 Be7) 17.Rg3 Bg7 18.Rag1 Nb6 19.Nc5 Bc8 20.Nh4 Nd7 21.Ne4
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(An amazing paradox: with the board full of pieces, practically without coming into contact with enemy army and not straying beyond his own half of the board, White has imperceptibly achieved a winning position-G Kasparov) ... Nf8 (Another defence that does not suffice is 21... Kh8 22.d4 exd4 23.Bc4 Qf8 24.Nxg6+
hxg6 25.Rh3+ Bh6 26.exd4) 22.Nf5 Be6 (22...gxf5 23.gxf5 h6 24.f4) 23.Nc5 Ne7 24.Nxg7 Kxg7 25.g5 Nf5 26.Rf3 b6 27.gxf6+ Kh8 (27...Qxf6 28.Ne4)
28.Nxe6 Rxe6 29.d4 exd4 30.Bc4 d3 (30...c5 31.Rxf5! gxf5 32.Qxf5 b5 33.Rg7 Rxf6 34.Bxf7 Rxf5 35.Rg8#) 31.Bxd3 Rxd3 32.Qxd3 Rd6 33.Qc4 Ne6 34.Be5 (Even the great Fischer misses what our silicon friend sees in the blink of an eye via 34.Rxf5! gxf5 35.Rg7 Qf8 36.Qxe6 Rxe6 37.f7 Qxg7 38.f8R#) 34...Rd8 35.h4 Nd6 36.Qg4 Nf8 37.h5 Ne8 38.e4 Rd2 39.Rh3 Kg8 40.hxg6 Nxg6 41.f4 Kf8 42.Qg5 Nd6 43.Bxd6+ 1–0 I think it is the same for all top players, or for most of them. I think you have to love chess first and foremost, and you have to have another desire than just to earn money. I am sure you have to have the desire to be the best, to improve your play, to reach perfection, because this is by far the most important thing in your chess career. If you think primarily about money, if it is your main goal, I am absolutely convinced that you can never reach the very top. You can achieve good results, but you can never be right at the top. This requires something else. And for this reason I am sure that for everyone who achieved the top position money was never in the first place. This is what I think. I am not trying to be a holy person, and you don’t have to make me a saint at the next Vatican meeting. I think what I feel in this matter is pretty normal. After all, it is easier to have this kind of attitude towards money, when you have enough of it.-Vladimir Kramnik