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Studying Simultaneous exhibition games

Valmont · 2014-08-23 17:44:38

Recently I've been playing through some of Bobby Fischer's and Paul Morphy's simul games. I reasoned that the GMs who participate in these events make their moves very quickly, easily beating some strong amateur players, and so must be relying not on heavy calculations but on their solid understanding of certain positions…

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Recently I've been playing through some of Bobby Fischer's and Paul Morphy's simul games. I reasoned that the GMs who participate in these events make their moves very quickly, easily beating some strong amateur players, and so must be relying not on heavy calculations but on their solid understanding of certain positions and openings. I suppose I find it useful to have a sense of their intuition through playing these games - they tend demonstrate exactly how to punish an inaccurate move. It's also quite wonderful to watch a GM player wipe an amateur off the board in under 20 moves:

Bobby Fischer vs Willy Schmitz 1970

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