A young Brooklyn player by the name of Bobby Fischer, a promising junior facing one of his first real tests against master opposition, was also playing.
He won from G. Lepine, Jr., J.C. Boyer, V. Judzentavicius, W.A. Walz, C. Sharp and Sidney Bernstein. He drew with H. Matthai and Frank Anderson. He suffered losses against 27th placed Robert Sobel (the featured game) and Maurice Fox.
A short time after this event, the 13-year old Fischer played in the 1956 Rosenwald tournament (which later became the official U.S. Championship event) where he tied for 8th (out of 12) with Herbert Seidman with a score of 4.5-6.5. This was the tournament where Fischer played the Game of the Century when he defeated Donald Byrnem who tied for places 5-7 with a 5.5-5.5 score. Samuel Reshevsjy won the tournament two full points ahead of Arthur Bisguier.
Fischer’s opponent in the following game was Robert Sobel who was Pennsylvania State Champion in 1953. He born in Philadelphia in 1934. He retired from a job doing inventory management for the Navy. As far as I could determine Sobol is still living and makes his home in Virginia.
Robert Sobel–Robert Fischer1–0A49Canadian Open, Montreal226.08.1956ShashChess 32
Sicilian Dragon 1.d4 f6 2.f3 g6 3.g3 g7 4.g2 0-0 5.0-0 d6 6.c3 c5 7.e4 cxd4 8.xd4 c6 9.de2 d7 10.b3 A never before seen move, but not a
bad idea...white opposes black's Dragon Bishop. Other moves are 10.h3, 10.Nd5
and 10.Bg5 c8 11.b2 h3 12.f3 xg2 13.xg2 d5 14.exd5 d8 15.c1 b4
Black has a slightly more active position, but it's doubtful tht he will be
able to make much out of it. 16.a3 bxd5 17.xd5 xd5 18.xg7 xg7 19.c4 e6 20.b2+ 20.cxd5 is less favorable. xe2+ 21.f2 e5 22.e1 22.d2 xd5 23.xd5 xd5 and black is a P uo. 22...xd5 23.xe5+ xe5 24.d1
Here, too, black is a P up, but making progress will be very difficult, if not
impossible. 20...f6 21.f4 So far the game has been rather colorless and
it seems to be heading for a draw after 21...Qd6 or 21.Qd7, but Fischer's next
move results in him making a chink in his position which Sobol manages to
exploit. f5 22.d5 22.ae1 is a stronger continuation. After f8 23.f2 23.d5 xd5 24.h8# 23...g5 24.e5 h6 25.fe2 d7 26.c1 Black is
under considerable pressure, but he can probably hold on. 22...e6 This loses! 22...e5 was absolutely essential. 23.g4 g5 24.h4 xh4 is identical to the position in the game but now 25.Rh1 is met by 25.h1 25.xe5 This is the correct move and it results in fully equal chances after
25...Re8 25...g5 and because the P is on e5 and not e6 the R sac on h7
loses and so in this position it is black who stands better. 26.xh7+
This loses. His best try was 26.Rad1 xh7 27.h1+ g7 and there is no
followup so black wins. 23.g4 Sobol finishes the game with several hammer
blows. g5 24.h4 The opening of the h-file will prove fatal to black, but
he has little choice. xh4 24...h6 25.g5 h5 26.xf6+ g8 27.e7+ f8 28.ad1 xh4 29.xd8+ xd8 30.xg6+ hxg6 31.xd8+ mates in 7. g7 32.f6+ h7 33.d1 xg5+ 34.xg5 g7 35.e5+ f6 36.d7+ h6 37.xf6 e5 38.h4# 25.h1 g5 26.xh7+ f8 26...xh7 27.xf6+ g7 28.e4+ d4 29.xg5 wins 27.xf6 Fischer resigned. Impressive and very precise
play by Sobol. 27.xf6 xf6 28.xf6 e7 28...d3 29.h8+ g7 30.xa8 xf6 29.g5 Black simply does not have enough compensation for the piece.
Some examples... d3 29...d2+ 30.g3 ad8 31.e1 8d4 32.g8+ f8 33.h8 2d3 34.f6+ e7 35.e8+ d6 36.c8 xb3 37.c5+ e7 38.e8# 30.g4 xb3 31.e5 d6 31...c8 32.d1 xc4 33.xg6+ e8 34.h8# 32.xf7+ c5 33.h8 xh8 34.xh8 xc4 35.xg6 b5 36.f8 e3 37.g6 wins 1–0
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