[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

The 'Evergreen' is still one of the greatest hints at Fischer's brilliance, expecially when you consider his age at the time and the experience of his opponent.

If you're referring to some connection to the Anderssen-Dufresne game (Berlin, 1852), you're over my head.

If not, then you're way over my head.

I would have liked to learn Chess from a master, but I have not. At my very best I have played against a NorthWestern US regional champion when I was 19, somewhere on a lonely fishing boat as we together plied the Chatham Straits of Alaska.

I barely won two out of thirteen if that tells you anything (I might perhaps have forced a Stalemate upon him in another round, exact memory fails me).

As I said to AC, I am not a child of Wei Chi, but of Avalon Hill. I know that I have not learned Tactics as well as I could. Not Strategy, but "Grand Strategy" --i.e., Economics, which is like breathing Air to me.

So, I can only hope that my military Peers have likewise learned Logistics, if the old Maxim holds true.

[MHGinTN]

The game to which I'm referring is one played by Fischer in the US Championship, 1956, I think, against Donald Byrne. He made a Queen sacrifice at about move 17 or 18 an mated his opponent in 24 more moves, forcing the action with six or seven checks culminating in mate at about move 41 or 42! I may have confused the name with another game of nearly equal brilliance ... Fischer played so many brilliant games, it is hard to keep them all in mind.