Invoulnerable | Taimanov vs Fischer | (1971) | Game 3

Mark Taimanov vs Robert James Fischer
Fischer - Taimanov Candidates Quarterfinal (1971), Vancouver CAN, rd 3, May-21
King's Indian Defense: Orthodox Variation. Korchnoi Attack (E97)

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Be2 e5 7. O-O Nc6 8. d5 Ne7 9. Bd2 Ne8 10. Rc1 f5 11. Qb3 b6 12. ef5 gf5 13. Ng5 Nf6 14. f4 h6 15. fe5 de5 16. c5 Nfd5 17. Nd5 Nd5 18. cb6 ab6 19. Rc6 Kh8 20. Nf3 Bb7 21. Rg6 Nf4 22. Bf4 ef4 23. Rd1 Qe7 24. Re6 Qc5 25. Kf1 Rad8 26. Rd8 Rd8 27. Qa4 Qc1 28. Kf2 Bf8 29. b4 Be4 30. Re8 Bc6 31. Qc6 Qc6 32. Rd8 Qf6 33. Rc8 Qe7 34. Kf1 Kh7 35. Nd4 Bg7 36. Nb5 Be5 37. a3 Qd7 38. Ra8 f3 39. gf3 Bh2 40. Kg2 Qg7 41. Kh2 Qe5 42. Kg1

Soon after the Palma de Mallorca Interzonal (1970) qualifier was held, the first stage (the quarterfinals) of the Candidates matches was held in four cities in May 1971. In Vancouver, Canada there was a 10 game match between Mark Taimanov and Bobby Fischer, played May 16th - June 1st.
Fischer sensationally won the match with a perfect score of 6-0, thereby proceeding to the Fischer - Larsen Candidates Semifinal (1971).

After the event, Taimanov was famously reported to have said, "At least I still have my music." He wasn't being merely melodramatic: the consequences of this loss were to haunt him for years. Taimanov later recounted in an interview with Joel Lautier:

"Until the match with Fischer in 1971, everything went smoothly in my chess career. This dramatic match changed my life into hell."

"As Fischer himself admitted at the time, the final score did not reflect the true balance of strength. The terrible feeling that I was playing against a machine which never made any mistake shattered my resistance. Fischer would never concede any weakening of his position, he was an incredibly tough defender. The third game proved to be the turning point of the match. After a pretty tactical sequence, I had managed to set my opponent serious problems. In a position that I considered to be winning, I could not find a way to break through his defenses. For every promising idea, I found an answer for Fischer, I engrossed myself in a very deep think which did not produce any positive result. Frustrated and exhausted, I avoided the critical line in the end and lost the thread of the game, which lead to my defeat eventually. Ten years later, I found at last how I should have won that fatal game, but unfortunately, it didn't matter anymore! I have written a book about this match, entitled How I Became Fischer's Victim, it represents an essay on the American player and describes how I perceived his style and personality, once the match was over."

"The sanctions from the Soviet government were severe. I was deprived of my civil rights, my salary was taken away from me, I was prohibited from travelling abroad and censored in the press. It was unthinkable for the authorities that a Soviet grandmaster could lose in such a way to an American, without a political explanation. I therefore became the object of slander and was accused, among other things, of secretly reading books of Solzhenitsin. I was banned from society for two years, it was also the time when I separated from my first wife, Lyubov Bruk."

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