The following game (Sicilian Najdorf) was annotated by Fischer himself, so I did not add any comments to the actual score/notation. His comments are pretty high-level, one may find it necessary to use a board to see what he means when, for example, he gives advantage to Black or White a various points during the game.
Three main things stood out when going over the game and reading Fischer’s comments.
(1) The need to “book up” and stay current only Chess theory, that way you save yourself thinking time during the game, and also avoid reinventing the wheel.
(2) The need to understand the ideas behind a particular opening, for example, when on move 6, he mentions that “Black’s expectation in this Najdorf Variation is that his control of important central squares, with possibilities of Q-side expansion, will more than compensate for the slight weakness of his backward QP.”
(3) The need for imagination and calculating several moves ahead. When Fischer played 21…Rc8, I suspect that he saw that he could play 26…Rxc3.
I hope you enjoy the game. Your comments and thoughts are welcome.
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