Anatoly Karpov vs Boris Spassky (1965)

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Anatoly Karpov vs Boris Spassky
Vladimir (1965) (exhibition), Vladimir URS
Caro-Kann Defense: Karpov Variation (B17) · 1/2-1/2

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Nov-06-03		Benzol: In an interview in London in 1972 Karpov was asked the following : Q:When you were a child did you play in similtaneous displays against Soviet Grandmasters? AK:Yes I did play against Botvinnik, Korchnoi, Spassky - almost all the Russian grandmasters. Q:Did you win against some of them? AK:I don't remember, I think I drew with Botvinnik, Spassky and Korchnoi, the others I don't really remember.

May-28-08		apexin: karpov makes it look easy. dont forget the rating inflation over 30 (which is about 30 points a year)years.today perhaps a 1800rated player would draw with spassky of 1965 and definitely in a simultaneous display where everthing is possible

Aug-08-18		Howard: This is probably the game where Spassky played Karpov in a simul and later remarked that he couldn't help but notice the youngster's quiet, positional style--rather unusual for someone of Karpov's age!

Aug-08-18		HeMateMe: Spassky has himself said "I'm lazy." He probably got through the boards as quick as he could, collected a paycheck and went home. People like Fischer really wanted to win those games but other GMs just want to get it over with as quickly as possibly, it's a payday. I would guess Spassky would be in the later group. My college chess team tried to get Spassky for a simul because he was going to be in the area, but we couldn't reach him. We got Artie Bisguier instead, who chewed up our players.

Aug-09-18		perfidious: Vastly amusing to see Spassky adopt a Caro-Kann, an opening which never figured in his praxis, against the young player whose name has become for ever associated with the line for Black after largely rejecting the Caro-Kann in his early days, even as a grandmaster. One wonders whether it ever crossed Spassky's mind that he might face this frail lad, nine years on, in a world title qualifier.

Aug-10-18		sakredkow: Isn't it unusual that the GM would take black in a simul?

Aug-10-18		moronovich: <sakredkow: Isn't it unusual that the GM would take black in a simul?> No,not really.Some GM´s does it.

Aug-10-18		MissScarlett: I doubt the occasion was a public simul. More likely an event organised for the benefit of promising young players, so the grandmaster's playing both colours was probably expected, if not required.

Aug-10-18		Howard: Well, Spassky did play Karpov in a simul at least once--that much, I know.

Aug-10-18		MissScarlett: Go back to sleep....jeeez....lol

Aug-10-18		perfidious: My first encounters with Browne and Bisguier were in simuls and I played White against both of them.

Aug-10-18		ughaibu: <I played White against both of them> But that's entirely to be expected, if you played them in a simul!

Aug-11-18		HeMateMe: didn't Fischer mix blacks and whites in his simuls? I think I heard that somewhere.

Aug-11-18		MissScarlett: Out of 217 games in the latest edition of <A Legend on the Road>, one has Fischer playing Black: R Lunenfeld vs Fischer, 1964 I guess it's like saying <NoMatesHe>'s posts are a mixture of the fascinating and the utterly pointless.

Aug-11-18		HeMateMe: I heard scarzy was a rude idiot, too. I guess I got some of it right.

Jul-13-19		joddon: both players must have been sleeping ...this game even 2 acid freeks could play......I think most boring game of chess I ever seen in my life.

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