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The Game of the Century
The Game of the Century usually refers to a chess game played between Donald Byrne and 13-year old Bobby Fischer in the Rosenwald Memorial Tournament in New York City on October 17, 1956. It was nicknamed "The Game of the Century" by Hans Kmoch in Chess Review. Kmoch wrote, "The following game, a...
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Donald Byrne
Donald Byrne (June 12, 1930–April 8, 1976) was one of the USA's strongest chess players during the 1950s and 1960s.
Born in New York City, he won the U.S. Open Chess Championship in 1953, was awarded the International Master title by FIDE (English:...
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Bobby Fischer
Robert James "Bobby" Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess Grandmaster, and the eleventh World Chess Champion. He is widely considered one of the greatest chess players of all time. Later in life he renounced his US...
