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Fischer’s 1963–4 US Championship: A Historic 11–0 Route
In December 1963, Bobby Fischer turned in a historically great performance winning the US Chess Championship by routing the competition — the first and only time this has ever been done. The above graph is what I call my “Tournament Snapshot.” It is a better device than the cross-table because it gives a sense of distance and how dominant the winner really was.
For the sake of posterity, I will provide the analysis from my rating app.
1964_US_Championship
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Chessmetrics
2759 Fischer
2628 Evans
2648 Benko
2678 Reshevsky
2599 Saidy
2608 Bryne_R
2531 Weinstein
2579 Bisguier
2565 Addison
2530 Mednis
2501 Steinmeyer
2607 Byrne_D
2766
9 11 0.5
12 8 0.0
6 3 0.0
10 1 0.0
4 7 0.0
5 2 0.5
3 4 0.5
8 5 0.0
1 2 1.0
10 6 0.0
11 12 0.5
7 9 0.0
9 3 0.5
12 7 0.0
6 1 0.0
2 8 1.0
4 10 1.0
5 11 0.5
3 12 0.5
6 4 0.5
1 8 1.0
10 9 0.5
11 2 0.0
7 5 0.0
9 6 0.0
8 11 0.5
12 10 0.5
2 7 0.0
4 1 0.0
5 3 0.0
3 2 0.0
6 12 0.5
1 11 1.0
10 5 0.0
4 9 1.0…
