“White can always play differently, in which case he merely loses differently.”

— Bobby Fischer

On his eponymous defense to the King's Gambit. A bust to the King's Gambit http://www.chesscafe.com/text/bust.pdf (1960)
1960s

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American chess prodigy, chess player, and chess writer 1943–2008

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