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Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall
Bobby Fischer was chess that Chris Moneymaker was Poker, that is, chess games broke in popularity (especially to the United States where the game was little popular) thanks to Bobby Fischer.
Before 1972, the failures were popular in several countries (especially in Russia), but not to the United States. There was the "before Bobby Fischer" and the "after Bobby Fischer". Purists will say that Bobby had much more talent in his discipline as Moneymaker in his, but that's not the purpose of this article.
After Bobby Fischer has won the title of champion of the world in 1972 in Iceland, millions of Americans began to play chess. Today, chess is the "board game" the most popular in the world. And poker enthusiasts are you will surely find a great pleasure to play this popular game of strategy.
Before 1972, Boris Spassky was the champion of the world of chess, a Russian, obviously. It was also time to political rivalries between the Russia and the USA. The chess world championship was much more than a single Championship, it was also an intellectual rivalry. The winner of this Championship would be able to tell the world "my people are the smartest in the world" and 'my people are intellectually superior to other peoples'. It was big at this point! After winning his title by winning 13 of 24 parts of this duel, several analysts said of Bobby Fischer that he was almost as famous internationally as Jésus Christ.
From a point of view biography, the book is worth a read if you like to follow the life of the great minds of this world. To Excel in any field, there is a path to follow and to be guided by people who have reached the top is inspiring for our own journey. At the base, Bobby was a very disciplined man. I believe that this is a quality required to Excel in painting, swimming, Poker, chess, in music, in short, in all possible disciplines. His life was austere (eat, sleep, exercise, think about chess, analyse games of chess, play chess and still think chess), but this is probably what allowed him to reach a level so high in chess.
If the topic interests you, I suggest you to add information to the subject, the excellent documentary: "Bobby Fischer against the World". 90 minutes which will allow you to better know and understand the life that several were appointed, the genius of chess. It is an interesting complement to the book I suggest you today.
Poker and chess
How the games of chess can make you a better poker player?
To have success in chess, need several qualities. Attention must be paid, should be constant, be healthy (Bobby Fischer, although very austere, did exercise regularly), it must be passionate, etc.
In the documentary mentioned above, "Bobby Fischer Against The World", one analyst compared Bobby to Mozart. According to him, it was the Mozart of chess, nothing less. And he continued: "Bobby Fischer is a genius of the game. But like all geniuses, it is not without first at least 10,000 hours of work on his art ". The work is the premise of any great achievement. In this regard, after winning the Championship of the chess world, a journalist asked him what he would now do with his time because he realized the project who was holding the most important (become champion of the world): "I'm definitely going to play chess. I feel that I have not sufficiently played chess". It gives you an idea of its level of passion.
In any discipline, whatever your talent, the work is important. One must immerse our brains of the discipline in which it wants to Excel. Must be passionate and work hard. Our art must become second nature and to do this, nothing better than practice. Poker is no exception to this note. The theory will help you, but the practice has no equal.
The paranoia of Bobby Fischer
Bobby Fischer was paranoid. And, according to many, this paranoia was no stranger to the game of chess. When we play, it must be paranoid. Where can it go? What can do? Why has it moved its Tower to this place? The chess player must not only think about his attack, it must also defend themselves and trying to predict the blows of his opponent. It should think several moves in advance. A bit like poker. Is also the error of several poker beginners, of not thinking far enough. Must be thinking about cards that, in table which is before us, in what we do, what our opponent can get to what he will do according to what he has, if it is more often beaten or more often in advance, etc. How to make me pay my big hand? Can I make folder top pair to my opponent? Simply focus on his game is a rookie mistake.
Think of the shots in advance
Playing chess you used to think in advance to think several moves in advance, to get an idea of your long term plan. Chess you accustomed to be attentive to the information available and analyse them well. You can dominate a part, but a simple mistake, an error of inattention for example might cost you your Queen (or Lady), the most powerful piece in attack. To ask questions. Why I move my pawn here and not there? The same thing is true in poker. Several players make games without question. Why I bet rather than checker? Why I check rather than bet? Why I bet $ 50 and not $ 55? Each set must have a reason. There is always a better than another shot. Your goal is to find that shot, both Poker than chess. Whenever it is your turn to play, this is the opportunity for you to make the best game possible; so do not miss this chance.
Chess, all shots are important and there must be an economy of the coup and at the outset, the player realizes that several options available to him, but that one among all these possibilities is the best. The same thing is true in poker.
The position
The position is also very important in chess. The center of the Board is considered to be the most important position. We can defend and attack at the same time when our parts are correctly placed (at the centre) also play white (and play first) gives us a big advantage over black (which must still play after whites). Play white, is a bit like play button Poker, conversely speaking last to poker has an advantage.
Fischer beat Spassky in destabilizing
To return to the world championship tournament, the two men had to play 24 games. A victory was 1 point, a zero 0.5 point and a defeat 0 point. The first two parts have been won by Spassky Russian after Fischer has made a strange error in the 2nd part. When the third part, Fischer tried an opening in which Spassky did not expect. Him out of his comfort zone. He took a risk, but it has destabilized his opponent. And after losing its first 2 parts, Fischer took a big risk, but a risk that has paid off for after his victory, he had the momentum.
As a player, it is important to get out of his comfort zone to work his game to improve. But it is also important to leave our opponents from their comfort zone, to make them doubt. For example, Poker, an overbet is a game that often goes out of his comfort zone an opponent (a nit reg that multi-table for example). It is thinking. It said, "If you make a mistake here, it'll cost you big". Introducing our opponents of situations which they have rarely seen, can make them make mistakes and capitulate on these errors. It is here something really important.
In short, an interesting read for all lovers of game strategy and excellence in general!
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