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| May-23-15 | | TheFocus: <I came into the match against Tigran Petrosian completely exhausted after getting through 98 difficult qualifying games. During the final stages there were bloody matches against Keres, Geller and Tal. The most difficult match was against Keres, which turned into a street brawl. Geller was relatively weak in defence and I only needed to attack him at all costs. I didn’t allow Tal to seize the initiative. That approach brought me success.
However, in order to beat Petrosian I needed something new. It’s very important to be imbued with a sense of the inevitability of your own victory. Your opponent senses that. But for that you need to have spirit and matter in harmony. In my case I was a poor student, unsettled and very far from higher thoughts. In the first match I flung myself at Petrosian like a kitten at a tiger, and it was easy for him to parry my blows. But by the second I’d matured and turned into a bear that was always putting the tiger under pressure, by which I mean I held him in a grip that even if it was loose was constant, and he didn’t like that> - Boris Spassky, talking about his path to the world championship. |
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| Nov-28-15 | | Ulhumbrus: Some remarks in various places in Kasparov's books on his predecessors appear to suggest that in 1966 Spassky underestimated Petrosian as a result of which in 1969 Petrosian underestimated Spassky |
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| Dec-15-15 | | cg999: I hope anand knows what smyslov have said. To be able to win against carlsen. But Anand is already too old. |
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| Dec-15-15 | | Marmot PFL: <In the first match I flung myself at Petrosian like a kitten at a tiger, and it was easy for him to parry my blows. But by the second I’d matured and turned into a bear that was always putting the tiger under pressure, by which I mean I held him in a grip that even if it was loose was constant, and he didn’t like that> The same thing happened in the Karpov-Kasparov matches in 1984 and 1985. |
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| Dec-15-15 | | EdZelli: Spassky was a superb player in the 60s. Gotta give credit where it is due. Boris beat a lot of players in match setup: Tal, Geller, Korchnoy, Keres, etc. Petrosian just didn't wanna be the world champ anymore in 69. Tigran expressed relief after his loss. Sadly Boris played very poorly in 72 all due to his non-existence prep work. Some call it champion's disease. |
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| Dec-15-15 | | Petrosianic: <Petrosian just didn't wanna be the world champ anymore in 69.> He wanted it. Spassky just wanted it more. |
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| Dec-15-15 | | Petrosianic: What you might say he didn't want was to keep playing in the candidates afterwards. He said that he'd considered not playing in the 1971 Candidates. He'd had his turn, let the younger generation have it. But then when he saw that so many of the other Candidates (Korchnoi, Geller, Taimanov, Larsen, Uhlman) were from his own generation, that he had no right to refuse. |
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| Dec-15-15 | | EdZelli: Another bit of nonsense from " Petrosianic" aka. Mr. know em all.
He writes "He wanted it. Spassky just wanted it more." By 1969 or 1972 or 1975, for that matter, No player alive (much less players of his own generation) had Petrosian's level of achievement. He
was a repeat world champ(1963 and 1966)
leaving no doubt about his prowess. What else is there to prove? |
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| Dec-15-15 | | Petrosianic: <EdZelli: Another bit of nonsense from " Petrosianic"> You call it nonsense (that Spassky wanted it more), then turn around and agree with it (he had nothing left to prove). You've got to get your own story straight before you can take issue with me. There were other repeat world champions alive in 1975. That was simply an error on your part. (An error is like a silly opinion, only worse). |
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Dec-15-15
 | | keypusher: If Petrosian didn't want to be world champion any more, then he had a very obvious remedy: don't play in the 1969 match. And once he'd lost the match, he had an even more obvious remedy: don't play in the 1970-72 cycle. Or the cycle after that, or the cycle after that. Since he played in the 1969 match, and the three following cycles, it's obvious that he still wanted to be champion. |
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| Dec-15-15 | | Jim Bartle: <edzelli> How sour are those grapes? |
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| Dec-15-15 | | Petrosianic: <If Petrosian didn't want to be world champion any more, then he had a very obvious remedy: don't play in the 1969 match. And once he'd lost the match, he had an even more obvious remedy: don't play in the 1970-72 cycle. Or the cycle after that, or the cycle after that.> I'm not much for excuses, whether I like the player or not. Saying he didn't want it (at all) is just an unsportsmanlike way of trying to tarnish Spassky's victory. Most of the fanboys around here go for Fischer, Kasparov, Carlsen, and the like, but Petrosian has a few too (ever run across Lt. Surena?) Considering that Petrosian has been on the receiving end of one of the most prolonged bouts of bad sportsmanship in chess history (Curacao), you'd think his fans would know better than to practice it themselves. If you want to know where Petrosian's best chances were in this match, he had a superior game in Game 12, and a won game in Game 14. Spassky was a bit down and out after the losses in Games 10 and 11. Had Petrosian won one (or both!) of those games, he might have pushed through to victory. But it didn't happen. Spassky held on through the tough time, got his mojo back, and came out on top. |
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Apr-10-16
 | | offramp: This was a very tough match. There are other very hard matches but this was a real toughie. The only match of similar difficulty was Karpov - Korchnoi Candidates Final (1974), and that was as hard as nails. |
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| Apr-10-16 | | Renko: Tigran spanked Bobby in Curacao. Bobby was the punching bag in Curacao.
Bobby LOST 7 games and still cried foul. Imaging if Topa had made a fuss
after losing 5 this year in the 2016 Candidates.
The most shameful cheating scandal in the history of chess occurred when Benko
was paid under the table for his seat in 1970 Interzonal by USCF with the cooperation of the FIDE's scoundrel Max Euwe. ** Five other people who were eligible ahead of Bobby were also told to get lost so Bobby could play without
playing in the qualifying tournament. |
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| Apr-10-16 | | john barleycorn: <keypusher: If Petrosian didn't want to be world champion any more, then he had a very obvious remedy: don't play in the 1969 match. ... Since he played in the 1969 match, and the three following cycles, it's obvious that he still wanted to be champion.> Well, he still was a professional chess player who had to pay his bills. |
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| Apr-10-16 | | ewan14: Petrosian ( and Geller ) cheated Keres in 1962 by going to Benko's room to check his analysis
for his game with Keres |
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| Apr-10-16 | | RookFile: I think the winner's prize for this match was a low figure, like 1500 bucks or something? |
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Apr-11-16
| | offramp: <RookFile: I think the winner's prize for this match was a low figure, like 1500 bucks or something?> It was something like that, $1,500 or possibly $2,500. I once had a theory (my own idea) that it was based on Capablanca's London Rules. These said that the champ didn't have to play for a prize lower than $10,000 or £2,500 (in 1922 there was a fixed exchange rate). The Soviet government may have set the exchange rate for the Rouble at ₽1 = £1. They could set it at anything as ₽s were not accepted anywhere in the West, because they were garbage. Has anyone ever seen a Rouble? No, because they were garbage. But that might explain the low figure for the prize money. As well as the fact that <both players were amateur chess players and not entitled to any prize money at all.> |
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Apr-11-16
| | offramp: Also, whatever the prize money was in 1969 I believe it was the same as the world championships in 1951, 1954, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1963 and 1966. I don't know about 1948. Today, Fischer's 1972 £50,000 win would be worth about $600,000. |
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| Oct-01-16 | | Allanur: why it is called "rematch"?
Literally, it may be said so but was it really? After all, rematch is supposed to be something like "a direct match between former world champion who just lost the title and the new champion who has just won the title". The ex-last chanpion is given this match without any qualification like Smyslov-Botwinnik or Tal-Botwinnik. In those matches, Botvinnik was just given match, thorougjly. Without any qualification. But Spassky's case was different, he went throuhh candidates, played quarter, semi and final. The title should be changed |
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| Jan-18-21 | | thegoodanarchist: Spassky and Peter Leko bear a slight resemblance, in their WC match photos. Compare the above photo to one of Leko in 2004~5 Anyway, I think Spassky is the first world champ to ever lose his first title match, yet come back to win the title later. Anand is the second. And nobody else has ever done it. Caruana hopes to do it someday. |
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| Dec-14-21 | | Allanur: Before this match, Korchnoi asserted that Spassky will win it but no matter who the next challenger is, Spassky will lose the title. Because, he reasoned, Spassky is too lazy for chess. Years later, Spassky similarly prophecied: Korchnoi will never become world chess champion because he lacks one thing to become world champion: Chess talent. Funny both prophecies worked and both lost to each other on candidates finals. |
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| Dec-14-21 | | Olavi: <thegoodanarchist:
Anyway, I think Spassky is the first world champ to ever lose his first title match, yet come back to win the title later.Anand is the second. And nobody else has ever done it. Caruana hopes to do it someday.> Another way to look at it is that Smyslov failed to take the title twice (1948 & 1954) and Kasparov once (first match) before eventually winning it. |
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Dec-14-21
 | | HeMateMe: The first KK match was never completed. The games played were anulled and the match was <restarted> at 0-0, set limit of 24 games, begun in 1985. |
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| Dec-14-21 | | Olavi: < HeMateMe>
Really. You don't say. |
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