Unimaginable Sacrifice and Counterintuitive Attack. Browne vs Bisguier

An immortal game of a six-time U.S. Champion Walter Browne. In a well-known position Browne sank into deep thought. After thinking for 45 minutes he came up with a fantastic sacrifice, which signaled the beginning of a deadly attack.
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. d4 d5 6. Bd3 Be7 7. O-O Nc6 8. c4 Nb4 9. cxd5 Nxd3 10. Qxd3 Qxd5 11. Re1 Bf5 12. Nc3 Nxc3 13. Qxc3 c6 14. Bh6 Rg8 15. Re5 Qd7 16. Rae1 Be6 17. Ng5 O-O-O 18. Nxf7 Bxf7 19. Rxe7 Qxd4 20. Rxf7 Qxc3 21. bxc3 gxh6 22. Rb1 Rg5 23. h4 Rb5 24. Rxb5 cxb5 25. Rxh7 Rd1+ 26. Kh2 Rd2 27. Rxh6 Rxa2 28. h5 Rxf2 29. Rh8+ Kc7 30. h6 Kb6 31. Kh3 a5 32. g4 b4 33. cxb4 axb4 34. Re8 Rf1 35. Kg2 Rf7 36. g5 Rf5 37. h7 Rxg5+ 38. Kf3 Rh5 39. h8=Q Rxh8 40. Rxh8 1-0

[@jeffjones6951]

Outstanding analysis of extraordinary game

[@mehdialigol]

😮😮😮really amazing game and of course analysis. Not only walter was so good but his opponent...

[@fightingforcatalonia]

you are a G. Alpha commentary, great games. You the man

[@Silvermist78]

Wow fireworks! 💪💪❤️

[@brucewallace2]

Fab game. What a concept.

[@davidcopson5800]

Speak up Browne, you're through.

[@SoimulPatriei]

Wonderful game : imaginative and precise. Is the game taken from his book The Stress of Chess: My Life, Career and 101 Best Games?

[@chesswisdom]

Yes, but I first saw it in the book called "Chess World Title Contenders and their Styles". You can also find it in Soltis's book called "The United States Chess Championship, 1845-1996".

[@leonardocontreras9690]

First

[@DeeDee-fi4kq]

Fischer even as a child was slaughtering Bisguier (13 times in a row), and would probably have done even better vs. Browne +1974 who successfully avoided ever playing RJF as a US citizen, and would have been remembered as the zero-time U.S. Champion if Fischer had continued to defend his title which he had won every time he played in it (8 times in a row). At the time this game was played, Walter Browne was F.I.D.E. ranked #57 in the world, and could be U.S. Champion only because he wasn't playing against Fischer and the U.S. had such a pathetically weak field of players to compete against like Bisguier who at best was rated around 2450 ELO in 1974. Playing over Browne's greatest games with Stockfish will reveal that many of his sacrifices were fantastic alright, fantastically lucky. That B-h6 move is easy to find, and most GM today could calculate that idea in a couple of minutes, not taking anywhere near 45 minutes!

[@rafidl5556]

Browne played Fischer in 1970. The result was a draw.

[@DeeDee-fi4kq]

@@rafidl5556 Yeah that is correct. According to Wikipedia that draw was one of Walter Browne's greatest chess achievement.

[@gm1590]

Tough crowd :P

[@user-tv8ws3rq1p]

@@gm1590 The man's on a mission, for sure. ;)