Robert Byrne of Indianapolis, Indiana (then an IM). the winner of previous year's event. and Dr. Stephen Popel of Fargo, North Dakota, shared second and third with scores of 7.0-1.0.
Playing with great speed, Fischer had no trouble and some of his games were finished while those of the lesser lights were still in the opening.
Fischer yielded a draw to USCF Master Dr. Paul Poschel of Ann Arbor, Michigan in the fourth round and defeated James Fuller, Allen Reinhard, Norbert Leopoldi, Ronald Finegold, Donald Byrne and Arthur Bisguier. Going into the last round Fischer and Hans Berliner were tied for first and Fischer also defeated Berliner.
During the entire event Fischer was in a gregarious mood and signed autographs, played five-minute games and offered advice to players conducting post-mortems. At the awards banquet he even expressed approval of the playing conditions.
The top women’s prize went to Adele Goddard. Top Junior was won by Thomas Alice.
Fischer wrote that he had some second thoughts about the two rounds per day schedule, but knew he wouldn't mind it because, “A tournament is not a test of strength, only a match demonstrates
this, but its more like a horse race where the order of finish is not always according to form.”
He also admitted that he was expecting to crush his opponents in twenty moveers, but it didn't happen. His opponents were strong enough that he considered 5 or 6 of his games to be superior to any of the games that were played in recently completed super-GM Piatigorsky Cup in Los Angeles (Keres, Petrosian, Najdorf, Olafsson, Reshevsky, Gligoric, Benko and Panno)!!
In the following game, Fischer defeats Chicago Expert Allen Reinhard in a game in which Fischer’s better theoretical opening knowledge determined the outcome.
Reinhard finished in 58th place with +4 -3 =1. I remember meeting Reinhard once in the late 1960s. I had lost a game to a well-known Expert and was sitting at the table playing through it when Reinhart, who I noticed had been watching the game, came over and very graciously point out where I had blown a promising position!
Allen Reinhard–Robert Fischer0–1A07Western Open, Bay City, MI2Bay City, MI USA04.07.1963Stockfish 16
King's Indian Attack 1.f3 f6 2.g3 g6 3.g2 g7 4.0-0 0-0 5.d3 d6
Here Fischer made the outlandish claim that black is better. His reasoning was
that whatever white does, black will vary and get an asymmetrical position.
This will result in black having the superior position due to his better
P-structure. To prove his point he quoted a similar game he had played against
Filip the previous year, but I suspect Fischer got the better position more
because he was by far the stronger player rather than owing to any theoretical
superiority. 6.e4 c5 7.c3 Highly unusual, but by no means bad. 7.Nbd2 is
more usual. c6 8.h3 b8 9.e3 9.d4 Fischer pointed out that playing
this with the idea of gaining a tempo by attacking black's a-Pawn is
unsatisfactory because after cxd4 10.xd4 xe4 10...xd4 Not this
expected move which resukts in equality after 11.xd4 b6 12.a4 11.xc6 xc3 12.xd8 xd1 13.xf7 xb2 14.xb2 xb2 15.g5 Black is better. 9...b5 10.e5 Fischer wrote that 9 out of 10 GMs (including such
luminaries as Petrosian, Botvinnik, but it loses by force. He was apparently
making a dig at the Russians and his claim that the move loses by force seems
a bit over the top. It is. however, not the best move, but black can claim to
be only slightly better. Curiously, he did not suggest a better move. 10.a3 leads to a very slight advantage for black according to Stockfish and Komodo a5 11.d2 e5 12.a4 b4 13.b5 e8 14.c3 c7 15.xc7 xc7 16.ac1 10...dxe5 With a weak and doubled e-Panes and a weakened Q-side, it may appear
that the position favors white, but black is actually slightly better, not
winning as Fischer claimed. The position is very similar to the Mednis-Fischer
game in the 1958-59 U.S. Championship. Fischer won that game, foo, but, again,
it probably had more to do with the strength of the players than the positiom. 11.xc5 b4 In a very insightful comment Fischer explained his plan: force
white's N off of c3 thereby allowing himself to gain control control of d5 for
his own N after which white's B on c5 will be left stranded. 12.e4 Less
effective is 12.Na4 as played in the Mednis game. xe4 13.dxe4 a5 14.e3 14.d5 loses outright... b5 15.xb4 15.xc6 xc5 16.a8 e6 17.b7 c7 and the Q is trapped. 15...b6 16.d2 xb4 Black is winning. 14...a6 15.e1 fd8 16.c1 It's natural to move the Q away from the R,
but after this black's is ti\otally in charge. 16.d2 It's unnatural to
walk into a pin, but this move, not mentioned by Fischer, keeps the chances
equal. It's not surprising that this move went unnoticed because the
complications are enormous! c7 17.a3 d6 18.axb4 xb4 19.c4 xc4 Black
is forced to relese the pin and play... 20.c1 c6 21.xc4 xc4 22.xc4 xc4 23.a4 with full equality. 16...d4 17.h2 Here was white's last
chance to stay in the game. After this the game is over. 17.xd4 Fischer's
suggestion, but is is less good than Stockfish's. exd4 18.d2 With the
intention of playing 19.a3. Fischer's suggested 18...Qb6 would win, but 18...
d3 is even stronger. b6 18...d3 19.a3 dxc2 20.e5 a4 21.axb4 xa1 22.xa1 xd2 is winning for black, but this line is more complicated, so
Fischer's 18...Qb6 is a much more practical solution. 19.e5 19.a3 b3
Black has a decisive advantage. 19...bc8 20.d1 d3 21.c3 bxc3 22.bxc3 c5 Black is better. 17...dc8 Some databases have black playing 17...
Rbc8, but that is incorrect. Fischer actually played 17...Rdc8. In any case,
there is no way white can defend his c-Pawn he has to eliminate the N which
not only undoubles black's e-Pawns. 18.xd4 After this black unleashes a
ferocious attack. 18.xd4 While insufficient, this was considerably better.
exd4 19.d2 c5 20.e5 b7 21.e2 xf3 22.xf3 e6 23.ac1 b5 The
e-Pawn is doomed and black is clearly better. 18...exd4 19.g5 d3 20.a3 xc2 21.axb4 Black has a number of ways to win. b6 21...xc1 would also
win. 22.bxa5 xe1 23.xe1 xb2 21...xb4 22.f4 h6 23.xe7 xb2 24.a3 e5 25.d6 xf4 26.gxf4 xa1 22.e3 d4 23.f3 xf2 24.g4 d2 White
resigned 24...d2 25.ed1 e2 26.d7 e3 27.xe3 xe3 is hopeless for
white. 28.xd2 xg2+ 29.xg2 f3+ 30.g1 xg3+ 31.h1 f3+ 32.g2 xg2# 0–1
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