My 70th Memorable Game

On 17th October 1956, a sensational sacrificial game played in New York City by a 13-year-old chess upstart from Brooklyn shot across the globe. A game that literally took the chess world by storm – and exactly 70 years on, that stunning sacrificial onslaught has more than stood the test of time by universally being regarded as one of the most famous games of chess that has ever been played. In the October issue of CHESS magazine John Henderson recalls the game that made 13-year-old Bobby Fischer famous