Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 08:37:40 07/05/03
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On July 05, 2003 at 11:31:09, Mike Byrne wrote: >Just to make sure yesterday was not a fluke. > >Dropped Smarthink , added Shredder 7.0.4 and new personality "Byrne". No not >me, it's in honor of the two famous US chess players, GM Robert Byrne and his >late brother IM Donald Byrne. Donald Byrne was a professor of Penn State >Univeristy before his untimely death in the early 70's. Robert still writes a >weekly chess coumn that is on the NY Times website. > >Blitz Secane, PA USA 2002 > > 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 >1 Crafty 19.03 Capablanca * 1 1.0/1 >2 Shredder 7.04 * ½ 0.5/1 >3 Chess Tiger 15.0 * ½ 0.5/1 >4 The King ST ½ * 0.5/1 >5 Crafty 19.03 Byrne ½ * 0.5/1 >6 Crafty 19.03 Petrosian * 0.0/0 >7 Fritz 8 * 0.0/0 >8 Deep Junior 8 * 0.0/0 >9 Crafty 19.03 Stein * 0.0/0 >10 Crafty 19.03 ST * 0.0/0 >11 Crafty 19.03 Nimzovich * 0.0/0 >12 Crafty 19.03 Lasker * 0.0/0 >13 Deep Sjeng 1.5 0 * 0.0/1 >14 Ruffian 1.0.5 * 0.0/0 >15 Hiarcs 8 * 0.0/0 >16 Crafty 19.03 Morphy * 0.0/0 PS Many people belive that IM Donald Byrne was the strongest player in the US who ever achieved an IM and not the GM title. He certainly played and won against many GM's. His game against Fischer in 1956 was dubbed the game of the Century, and put the 13 year old Robert Fischer in the media limelight. The position has been posted here many times. [d] r3r1k1/pp3pbp/1qp3p1/2B5/2BP2b1/Q1n2N2/P4PPP/3R1K1R b - - 0 17 Byrne,D - Fischer,R [D96] Rosenwald New York, NY USA, 1956 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.d4 0-0 5.Bf4 d5 6.Qb3 dxc4 7.Qxc4 c6 8.e4 Nbd7 9.Rd1 Nb6 10.Qc5 Bg4 11.Bg5 Na4 12.Qa3 Nxc3 13.bxc3 Nxe4 14.Bxe7 Qb6 15.Bc4 Nxc3 16.Bc5 Rfe8+ 17.Kf1 Be6 18.Bxb6 Bxc4+ 19.Kg1 Ne2+ 20.Kf1 Nxd4+ 21.Kg1 Ne2+ 22.Kf1 Nc3+ 23.Kg1 axb6 24.Qb4 Ra4 25.Qxb6 Nxd1 26.h3 Rxa2 27.Kh2 Nxf2 28.Re1 Rxe1 29.Qd8+ Bf8 30.Nxe1 Bd5 31.Nf3 Ne4 32.Qb8 b5 33.h4 h5 34.Ne5 Kg7 35.Kg1 Bc5+ 36.Kf1 Ng3+ 37.Ke1 Bb4+ 38.Kd1 Bb3+ 39.Kc1 Ne2+ 40.Kb1 Nc3+ 41.Kc1 Rc2# 0-1
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