Fischer Defense
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The Fischer Defense is a chess opening that begins (in algebraic notation):
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Ideas Behind the Opening
Fischer called 3... d6 "a high-class waiting move." The idea of it is to avoid the Kieseritzky Gambit and free the queen's bishop, as well as giving an extra space for the king to run to if necessary.
After 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 d6 the [most common response is 4.d4]. If white now tries to force transpositions to Berlin or Classical defence positions then white can end up in difficult positions (eg. 4.d4 g5 5.h4 g4 6.Ng5 f6 7.Nh3 gxh3 8.Qh5+ Kd7 9.Bxf4 Qe8 10.Qf3 Kd8 and black has a better position due to the reversed king and queen).
Another popular move is 4.Bc4 which is often followed by 4... h6. Fischer dubbed this the "Berlin Defence Deffered". It stops the white knight on f3 from moving to the two dangerous squares e5 and g5.
History
After Bobby Fischer lost a [1959 game] at Mar del Plata to Boris Spassky, in which the Kieseritsky Gambit (above) was played, he left in tears and promptly went to work at devising a new King's Gambit defense. In a 1962 article titled ["A Bust to the King's Gambit"] he put forth this idea and claimed that it refuted the King's Gambit, which was clearly not the case. The article concluded with the famously arrogant line, "Of course white can always play differently in which case he merely loses differently." Nonetheless, the article was possibly the most influential ever written about an opening, and ever since the King's Gambit has been rare in Grandmaster play, though a few players such as Joseph Gallagher still use it.
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