Jessica Fischer's video: Living Chess History: The Sicilian Vespers

Chess is a unique game due to its rich history- whenever any of us plays, we follow in the footsteps of past Masters. This is the story of Larry Crawford, a strong player who recently "played in to" a very famous, and interesting, incident in Chess History: the "Sicilian Vespers" episode between the Russians and the Argentines at the Goteborg Interzonal in 1955. The story continued a few years later in 1958 when a 15 year old Bobby Fischer stunned Gligoric by reviving the "Sicilian Vespers" line at the Potoroz Interzonal in 1958. I urge all chessplayers to examine their games against a good database to see which famous episodes of Chess History YOU might be participating in!! Here is the PGN file of Crawford's game: [Event "Challenge"] [Site "http://www.queenalice.com/game.php?..."] [Date "2010.2.15"] [Round "-"] [White "crawfb5"] [Black "borghese"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [WhiteElo "2237"] [BlackElo "2405"] [ECO "B98"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 e6 7. f4 Be7 8. Qf3 h6 9. Bh4 g5 10. fxg5 Nfd7 11. Nxe6 fxe6 12. Qh5+ Kf8 13. Bb5 Ne5 14. Bg3 Rh7 15. Bxe5 dxe5 16. Rd1 Nd7 17. Qg6 Rf7 18. Qxh6+ Kg8 19. g6 Rg7 20. Bc4 Qb6 21. Nd5 Qc5 22. Ne3 Nf8 23. O-O Nxg6 24. Kh1 Nf4 25. Rxf4 exf4 26. Nf5 Rf7 27. Bxe6 Bxe6 28. Qxe6 Rd8 29. Rxd8+ Bxd8 30. Nh6+ Kg7 31. Qxf7+ Kxh6 32. Qxf4+ Bg5 33. Qf7 Qxc2 34. Qf8+ Kh5 35. Qf3+ Kh6 36. Qf8+ Kg6 37. Qf5+ Kh6 38. Qf8+ Kh5 39. Qf3+ Kh6 40. Qf8+ Kh7 41. Qf7+ Kh6 42. Qf8+ Kg6 43. Qf5+ Kh5 44. Qf3+ Kg6 45. Qf5+ Kh6 46. Qf8+ Kh7 47. Qf7+ Kh6 1/2-1/2 And here is the story of "The Sicilian Vespers" as retold by Frederic Friedel: http://chessbase.com/columns/column.asp?pid=164