| Sep-01-08 | | AnalyzeThis: Looks like the game is just getting started, but Spassky was happy to draw. |
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| Jan-23-10 | | KingG: From Stefan Bücker's column on chesscafe: http://www.chesscafe.com/text/kaiss.... After 11.b4:
<Spassky has a fine position, but hasn’t played his best tournament (the
final result was place 16 of 18 players) and offers a draw. Garry
Kasparov, who later won the event, declines.> After 19.Qh4:
<Jan Timman reported in NIC Magazine 8/1988: “At this point Spassky
repeated his offer. … [He] likes to accompany such an offer with a bit of
chat. In Belfort he had spent at least a minute persuading Kasparov that it
was pointless to play for a win; now he was saying something like, ‘I’m
giving you a last chance. If you refuse the draw now I will wipe you off
the board.’ […] Kasparov wisely accepted the offer. And it was true that
his position had become extremely dubious.”> |
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| Jan-23-10 | | Alphastar: <now he was saying something like, ‘I’m giving you a last chance. If you refuse the draw now I will wipe you off the board.’> LOL, that's brilliant. |
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| Jan-23-10 | | I play the Fred: The myth that Spassky was some pale ghost of himself after Reykjavik looks foolish in light of an honorable lifetime showing with Kasparov (+2=4-2) as well as a number of successes in strong tournaments. Of course he lost effectiveness as he aged, but he was a first class GM for 10-15 years after 1972. |
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| Sep-02-10 | | Dr. Siggy: Here you find a couple of delicious photos which were taken at the very beginning of this game: http://www.perlukafarinn.is/skaksam... Look at Boris when he plays 2. Nc3 (!!!). Boris Spassky! What a champ! What a sense of humour!!! |
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| Nov-27-10 | | KingG: <Dr. Siggy> Thank you so much for linking to those pictures. I love the ones of Kasparov, Tal, and Spassky analysing together. |
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| Apr-07-11 | | Wyatt Gwyon: @#$%*!& Speelman was a beatnik sasquatch in those photos. |
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| Apr-08-11 | | SimonWebbsTiger: @wyatt gwyon
the English GMs in the 80s must have shocked their opponents. Tony Miles, John Mestal, Speelman, Kiwi born Murrey Chandler and John Nunn all had long hair and some curls. Nigel Short was probably the cleanest cut of them! |
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| Apr-08-11 | | Wyatt Gwyon: They were some funny looking dudes. |
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| Jun-08-11 | | tud: This is the 2nd draw proposal from Spassky in the game: "I'm giving you your last chance. If you refuse the draw now, I will wipe you off the board!"... |
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| Mar-15-17 | | RookFile: Well, that's nice of Spassky. Is there something wrong with winning the game instead of drawing it? |
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Mar-15-17
 | | Sally Simpson: Hi RookFile,
This may throw some light on the Kasparov - Spassky relationship. Boris Spassky (kibitz #2286) |
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| Mar-16-17 | | Howard: Spassky was by no means "washed up" after he lost to Fischer. After all, he reached the Candidates final in 1977, when he lost to Korchnoi. And what about 1978, when he tied with Karpov at Baguono (sp). That was an exceptionally strong tournament! |
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| Mar-16-17 | | Retireborn: Spassky was still capable of 2600+ performances up to 1991, according to my databases, or 1992 if you include his second match with Fischer. |
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Mar-16-17
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| Mar-16-17 | | Howard: Spassky's rating performance in the 1992 match was nowhere close to his peak if you take into account rating inflation. |
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| Mar-16-17 | | john barleycorn: Rating here and rating there. I think first is that Fischer in 1972 said he would give a return match to Spassky. Secondly, Spassky was motivated like never before to play the match and did very fine in the first 10 games or so where Spassky took the lead and was worried that Fischer might call it a day. |
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| Mar-16-17 | | Retireborn: <john b> I think it's fair to say that Spassky's last two good tournament results were Wellington 1988 (shared first with Chandler & Gufeld) and Salamanca 1991 (2nd behind Vladimirov) and he was unbeaten in both those tournaments. It's a convenient shorthand to call them 2600 performances, but says nothing about the quality of the games, of course. As for the second Fischer match, I thought his play was fairly impressive, if not the Spassky of old. |
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