A cool old Sicilian line for white.

Black retakes with the pawn, he loses his queen. He retakes with the king, he dies.

Most dragon folk won't let you play this on them anymore, they'll play d6, which forces you to play f3. Na5 gets a ? these days, but make no mistake Samuel Reshevsky was no patzer and he played it. Too bad he played it against a fully operational Bobby Fischer.

Originally posted by Thabtos
[pgn][Event "US Ch."] [Site "-"] [Date "1958.??.??"] [EventDate "?"] [Round "5"] [Result "1-0"] [White "Robert James Fischer"] [Black "Samuel Reshevsky"] [ECO "B32"] [WhiteElo "?"] [BlackElo "?"] [PlyCount "83"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 g6 5. Be3 Nf6 6. Nc3 Bg7 7. Bc4 O-O 8. Bb3 Na5 9. e5 Ne8 10. Bxf7+ Kxf7 11. Ne6[/pgn]


Black retakes wit ...[text shortened]... ed it. Too bad he played it against a fully operational Bobby Fischer.

and I always wondered whats the reply after rxf7

Originally posted by erikido
and I always wondered whats the reply after rxf7

It's the same thing, Ne6.

A few months before the Fischer game Leonard Shamkovitch
fell into the same trap and resigned.

G.Bastrikov - L. Shamkovich Russia 1958

1.e4 c5 2.Ne2 Nc6 3.Nbc3 g6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Bg7 6.Be3 Nf6
7.Bc4 0-0 8.Bb3 Na5 9.e5 Ne8 10.Bxf7+ Kxf7 11.Ne6 1-0



Sammy played on.

R.Fischer - S.Reshevsky. New York 1958



On here it has apeared twice. Once by No1.

no1marauder - 99GSX RHP 2004




Finally some 2230 player missed 10.Bxf7+ as White and lost.
You have to know your classics.

M.Gruca (2232) - S. Petrik,S (2202) Slovakia 2006

Why not 9...Nxb3?

10.exf6 Nxa1 11.fxg7 Kxg7 12.Qxa1 and black's development is a joke.