ANew York Times, New York, New York, Sunday, January 05, 1964 - Page 376
Chess: U.S. Championship Games
By Al Horowitz
After the completion of the sixth round in the recently finished United States Chess Championship, 20-year-old Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn, the defending champion, topped his nearest competitor, Dr. Anthony Saidy of Puerto Rico, by 2 points.
His victims included four of his most formidable opponents, Arthur Bisguier of New York, last year's runner-up: Larry Evans of New York, a former national champion; the 52-year-old veteran Sammy Reshevsky and the Indianapolis stalwart, Robert Byrne. Also succumbing to Fischer's winning streak were Edmar Mednis and Robert Steinmeyer of New York.
Undoubtedly the most eagerly awaiting match of this 12-man round-robin was the fifth-round Queen's Gambit Declined, reached by transposition, adopted by Reshevsky against Fischer. Reshevsky, starting conservatively, allows Fischer some tactical aggression in the early stages. To obtain this initiative, however, Fischer willingly saddles himself with an isolated queen pawn—the same motif he had employed in an earlier triumph against Byrne.
Fischer's 12 … N-K5 poses serious problems for his opponent. Reshevsky has no better than to submit to an exchange of minor pieces and accept a ragged queen-side structure.
Fischer, however, does not proceed to prevent the dissolution of White's weak points. Rather than concentrate his attack on White's queen bishop pawn, he plays for a mating net on the other wing. But this might have been refuted.
Note that if 25 RxP, B-R6ch; etc After 32 R-K1, if 32 . . . Q-K5; 33 P-B3. If, however, 34 . . . Q-K5; 35 QxP, QxQ; 36 N-K7ch, etc. As the game goes, after 33 . . . Q-B6, White's text 32 R-N1, was injudicious. Much better and sufficient to have a slight edge would have been 34 R-Q1. This was the turning point of the game.
White's fatal maneuver began with 35 N-K7ch, K-R1; 35 NxP, R-B1. The pawn was poisoned.
