I wanted to review some ideas in the King’s Gambit before showing it to some of my students, and accordingly looked for Fischer’s famous article A Bust to the King’s Gambit and had no trouble finding a PDF of it. However, it was in descriptive notation, which I can read though it is a pain- without any diagrams or clear delineation between the mainline and the sidelines.
After searching the internet for a few minutes I couldn’t find it in algebraic notation anywhere- nor could my more web-savvy friends who have access to nearly any printed thing within a moments notice it seems (where exactly do you find all of these chess books, Boris?).
In any case, rather than waste another minute trying to find the document I wanted, I decided to make it myself. In the link below you can download a copy of the famous article by fischer entitled “A Bust to the King’s Gambit,” in algebraic notation and with a few diagrams and formatting changes to make it easier to read for the 21st century chess player. Here it is: a bust to the king’s gambit
No thanks necessary, but a smiley face in the comments would make me feel like it was time well spent.
10 Responses to ““A Bust to the King’s Gambit” By Bobby Fischer in Algebraic Notation”
Very nice, exactly what I was looking for. I can read descriptive, but like you said, it’s kind of a pain given that I’ve always read algebraic notation. I put a link to your page on my blog: http://www.welearnchess.com/a-bust-to-the-kings-gambit-algebraic-notation/
Thanks again!
Thank you! Fischer is always an interesting read, though here he seems a little bit dogmatic. That 1960 loss against Spassky…!
Thanks for this algebraic version of Bobby Fischer’s famous article.
Best Wishes,
Collin
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Nice work!
Thank you Sir,
You are the true SAVIOR of Chesskind !!!!!!!
8) better late than never. Cheers, Jim Takchess
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Maybe there is a typo in the paragraph just after the second diagram?
Where it reads “7 g3 is always met by 7…g5.” I think it should read “(…) 7…g4”.
you are correct- thank you for pointing this out. I will see if I can find a copy of the original word document i used to correct it.
Thanks. Its really hard to read without Algebraic Notation.