grandpatzer wrote on 06/16/16 at 16:29:57:
I suppose that this was one of the two Sicilian losses vs Tal in this tournament, but which one? The one in 52 moves or the one in 33 moves? Can anyone identify the game from the other games played the same day?
There were two Fischer-Tal games that were Sicilians in the 1959 Candidates tmt, one in round 13 and the other in round 27. By examining the other three boards it is indeed possible to identify which.
The relevant part of the footage starts at 0:26 with Benko alone at the board having White. He plays 1.d4. That's what he played vs. Petrosian in round 27. The opponent's name is not visible, though.
At 0:40 a Gligoric-Keres game shown. Both their games from these two rounds were a Rubinstein Nimzo-Indian.
The Fischer-Tal segment (the Caro-Kann-that-wasn't) starts at 0:55
At 1:11 the camera is back to Benko's table, and now we can see the opponent too: Petrosian. It is not the same game as the one shown before, with Benko alone at the board, though! Here Benko played 1.Nf3 and 2.g3 instead of 1.d4. This corresponds to his game vs. Petrosian in the 13th round, an Accepted Reti where the Iron Tigran audaciously hung onto his extra pawn on c4 and even managed to win.
The last piece of the puzzle is revealed at 1:24, at the Olafsson-Smyslov board. We can see that it's a 1.c4 e5 English with a black bishop developed to e6 after ...d6 (a Smyslov special). Both games between these two players in rounds 13 and 27 were an English Opening; however, in the 27th round Black chose a different system, with ...Bb4.
Thus we can discard the first Benko segment as a red herring (from another day vs. an unidentified opponent) and conclude definitively that all other games shown are from round 13, played on September 28 in Bled.
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