AThe Guardian London, Greater London, England Thursday, February 06, 1964 - Page 5
Chess by Leonard Barden
Fischer Brilliancies
Last week's game and commentary did not reflect the purple patches in Fischer's clean sweep of the United States championship. Two of his wins were among the most brilliant games of the tournament. When Fischer sacrificed a knight on move 13 against Robert Byrne (whom he had never previously beaten), grandmaster Rossolimo, commentating on the game remarked that “Bobby is giving away all his pieces for nothing,” and at the moment when Byrne resigned almost all the spectators thought that he was winning.
