Arthur Bisguier
Notable Games

Arthur Bisguier

18 celebrated games · 595 in the full archive
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Notable Games

  • 1946.07.13 Bisguier, Arthur Bernard vsEvans, Larry Melvyn 1-0 Four Knights Game: Spanish Variation, Symmetrical Variation 40 moves US Open-47 Preliminaries US Open 1946 — the earliest game in an archive that runs to 2013, and Bisguier is sixteen playing a fifteen-year-old Larry Evans, later a five-time US Champion. It ends in mate: 29.Rxe6 fxe6 30.Qxe6 opens the king, and 36.Qg8+ Kg6 37.Rd6+ Kh5 38.Qxg7 Kxh4 39.Rxh6+ Qh5 40.Qg3 mate.
  • 1948.07.13 Steinmeyer, Robert H vsBisguier, Arthur Bernard 0-1 Semi-Slav Defense: Meran Variation, Old Variation 15 moves US Open-49 US Open 1948, fifteen moves with Black in a Meran. Bisguier gives back the gambit pawn to open lines — 12...Ndxe5 — and the two knights and queen converge on f2 so fast that 14.Nb3 Qh4 15.h3 Nxf2 simply wins the game on the spot.
  • 1953.04.26 Bisguier, Arthur Bernard vsBernstein, Ossip Samuel 1-0 Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense 36 moves Paris-San Francisco m Paris–San Francisco match 1953 against Ossip Bernstein — a link to another century, a contemporary of Lasker and Rubinstein who had beaten Capablanca in 1914 and was still playing at seventy after two exiles. Bisguier trades everything into a queen-and-bishop ending and wins it with 32.f4, 33.Qe4 and 36.f5.
  • 1954.12.27 Bisguier, Arthur Bernard vsByrne, Donald 1-0 Grünfeld Defense: Botvinnik Variation 41 moves New York Rosenwald-01 1954/55 The 1954/55 US Championship, which Bisguier won. Donald Byrne is beaten in forty-one: 23.f4 and 27.f5 push the pawn through to f7, and after 32.f7 Qxf7 33.Bxh4 the extra piece and the pin on the e-file settle it.
  • 1954.12.29 Bisguier, Arthur Bernard vsReshevsky, Samuel Herman 1-0 King's Indian Defense: Accelerated Averbakh Variation 44 moves New York Rosenwald-01 1954/55 Two days later, in the same championship, Samuel Reshevsky — the dominant American player of the previous twenty years. Bisguier gives the exchange with 28.Rxg5 hxg5, wins the queens off at 33.Qe2 Rf2 34.Qxf2 Nxf2 35.Kxf2, and the bishop and knight hold the passed pawns while 44.b4 breaks through.
  • 1955.09.02 Spassky, Boris Vasilievich vsBisguier, Arthur Bernard 0-1 Ruy Lopez: Schliemann Defense 68 moves Interzonal-03 Gothenburg Interzonal 1955 with Black against Boris Spassky, fourteen years from the world title. Bisguier answers the Ruy Lopez with the Schliemann, wins a pawn in the complications, and grinds out sixty-eight moves — 55...c3 56.Rxd5 c2 57.Rc5+ Kd6 58.Rxc2 Nd4+ picks the rook back up and the h-pawn falls.
  • 1955.11.01 Bisguier, Arthur Bernard vsGligoric, Svetozar 1-0 Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation, Opocensky Variation, Traditional Line 58 moves Zagreb Masters (Glavni) Zagreb 1955 against Svetozar Gligorić, Yugoslavia's leading player for three decades. Bisguier gives up a rook's worth of queenside — 42.b6 Bd5 43.b7 Bxb7 44.Rxb7 — to reach a rook-and-bishop ending, then walks the king in: 54.Ke3, 55.Ke4, 56.Kxe5, 58.Ke6.
  • 1956.10.07 Bisguier, Arthur Bernard vsFischer, Robert James 1-0 King's Indian Defense: Four Pawns Attack, Fluid Attack 33 moves New York Rosenwald-03 The third Rosenwald tournament, New York 1956 — the event in which a thirteen-year-old Bobby Fischer produced the Game of the Century against Donald Byrne. Ten days earlier, Bisguier beat him: 25.Bb4 exd5 26.Bxf8 Bxa1 27.Qxa1 Kxf8 28.Qh8+ wins the queen back, and 33.Qxe8+ ends it.
  • 1957 Reshevsky, Samuel Herman vsBisguier, Arthur Bernard 0-1 Nimzo-Indian Defense: St. Petersburg Variation, Fischer Variation 37 moves Match Reshevsky-Bisguier +4-2=4 From the 1957 match with Reshevsky, which the record books +4−2=4 to Reshevsky — this is one of Bisguier's two wins, with Black. Reshevsky pushes a pawn to c6 and it becomes a liability; 34...d5 35.exd5 Nxd5 opens the centre, and 36.Qc5+ Ke8 37.Qd6 Qd3+ traps the white king in the middle.
  • 1957 Bisguier, Arthur Bernard vsLombardy, William James 1-0 Indian Defense: Knights Variation 21 moves USA-ch US Championship 1957 against William Lombardy — a study player in this archive, and the reigning World Junior Champion. Twenty-one moves: Bisguier gives up two pawns for the initiative, buries a pawn on d6 with 17.d6, and 19.Bxf6 Qxc4 20.Bd4 Bf8 21.Qxh7 arrives with mate unstoppable.
  • 1960.12.23 Benko, Pal C vsBisguier, Arthur Bernard 0-1 Semi-Slav Defense: Stoltz Variation 35 moves USA-ch US Championship 1960 with Black against Pál Benkő, later a Candidate. Benkő attacks with 11.g4 and Bisguier simply takes it — 16...Qxg5 — then wins the endgame outright: 30...Nc3+ 31.bxc3 Rb8 32.Qxb8 Qxb8+ forces the queens off with an extra piece.
  • 1961.09.05 Bisguier, Arthur Bernard vsKeres, Paul 1-0 Indian Defense: Anti-Nimzo-Indian 35 moves Bled 30th Anniversary Bled 1961 against Paul Keres, in one of the strongest tournaments of the decade. Bisguier gives back the exchange with 26.Bxf6 Qxc2 to keep the initiative, and the knight tour decides it: 28.Nd4 Qd3 29.Kg2 Be5 30.Qd7 Bxf6 31.Qxe8+ Kg7 32.Nc6 Qf5 33.Ne7.
  • 1961.09.23 Najdorf, Miguel vsBisguier, Arthur Bernard 0-1 Queen's Indian Defense: Spassky System 36 moves Bled 30th Anniversary Bled 1961 again, with Black against Miguel Najdorf. Bisguier gives up the exchange in the other direction — 16...Rxf4 17.exf4 Nd3 — plants the knight and never moves it, and the pawn arrives on the second rank: 34...e3 35.Rxc6 exf2+ 36.Kh2.
  • 1961.12.10 Langeweg, Kick vsBisguier, Arthur Bernard 0-1 Queen's Gambit Declined: Westphalian Variation 10 moves Utrecht PAM Utrecht 1961 — ten moves, the shortest game in the archive. The whole point is 9...Ne4, after which 10.Rc1 loses to 10...Qxa2, because the pinned knight on c3 cannot recapture and the b2 pawn falls with everything else.
  • 1961.12.30 Gligoric, Svetozar vsBisguier, Arthur Bernard 0-1 Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Swiss, Carlsbad Variation 35 moves Christmas Congress 1961/62-37 Premier Hastings 1961/62, Gligorić again and Black this time. Bisguier gives up two pieces on the kingside to open the white king — 18...Bxf4 19.gxf4 Qh4 — and it never closes again: 27...c5 28.e4 f5 29.Rg1 fxe4 30.Bxe4 Bf5 and finally 35.Qxd4 Qf3+.
  • 1965.04.23 Bisguier, Arthur Bernard vsLarsen, Bent 1-0 Modern Defense 19 moves Zagreb Peace Zagreb 1965 against Bent Larsen — also a study player here, and about to win three consecutive supertournaments. Nineteen moves and mate on the board: 14.Rxf6 Bh8 gives up a rook, 16.Bf8 Bf6 17.Rxf6 exf6 gives up the second, and 18.Qh6 Rxf8 19.Qh7 is mate.
  • 1970.07.21 Szabo, Laszlo vsBisguier, Arthur Bernard 0-1 English Opening: Agincourt Defense, Neo-Catalan Declined 42 moves Buenos Aires Buenos Aires 1970 with Black against László Szabó, another study player here and a three-time Candidate. Forty-two moves of knights against bishops: Bisguier's knight goes b7–d8–f7–d6–f7–d8 while the position tightens, and 40.f4 Ne4 41.g4 Qd7 finally leaves White with nothing to hold the light squares.
  • 2013.02.17 Jacobson, Aaron vsBisguier, Arthur Bernard 0-1 Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Polerio Defense, Bishop Check Line 27 moves USA-chT Amateur East US Amateur Team East, February 2013 — the last game in the archive, sixty-seven years after the first, with Bisguier at eighty-three. He plays the Two Knights with Black, gives the knight on a5 for the attack, and finishes 24...Qg5+ 25.Kb1 e3 26.Bxd4 Bf5+ 27.Ka1 cxd4.
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