On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 21:34:23 GMT, "Wayne Martin"
wrote:

"Phil Innes" wrote:

A guy at a tournament told me a Fischer simul story.
He had played him 6 months before, and became his
college's organiser for a second simul. After the simul
Fischer said to him "do you remember your position on
move..." and started to set up the board, but not the one
just played (!) but the one 6 months before.

Phil Innes


Yeah, Fischer played and practiced so much that the game and all of
its moves became instant recalling chunks of data to him. Much like a
computer programmer remembering an entire subroutine in one of his
huge programs of thousands and thousands of lines.



At the Vancouver 1971 Candidates match (where he was seconding Mark
Taimanov) Evgeny Vasjukov asked Fischer if he remembered playing blitz
against him (Vasjukov) at the Central Chess Club in Moscow in 1958.
By way of reply Fischer proceeded to rattle off ALL the moves of ALL
of the blitz games he had contested with Vasjukov on that day in
Moscow.

Fischer would meet minor European masters at Olympiads and other
events and immediately tell them where they had gone wrong in obscure
tournament and match games played years previously.