The Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Sunday, January 12, 1986 - Page 229
For Bobby Fischer, A Brilliant Match Played at Early Age
Fischer demonstrated his mastery, to the astonishment of onlookers, in the Rosenwald Tournament in New York in 1956, when he was only 13. His opponent was Donald Byrne, who had the white pieces in a Grunfeld Defense. The game has been frequently reproduced. It is known as the “Game of the Century” and is in a class with two games of Adolf Anderssen (1818-78) — the “Immortal” against Lionel Kieseritsky in 1851 and the “Evergreen” against Jean Dufresne in 1852. The Fischer-Byrne game was annotated in this column of May 27, 1973.
In the game against Byrne, three different Fischer moves warranted exclamation points. A fourth, involving a queen sacrifice, which Byrne could not refuse, deserved two.
Once Byrne took the queen, he had an uphill struggle. Fischer, with minor pieces, developed a kingside attack, spurned winning the game by queening a pawn, and scored a mate on his 41st move. The game won the first brilliancy prize in the tournament.