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| Apr-10-10 | | Shah Mat: <dTal> i'm not sure that 14. Bb5!? is as good as you think. spassky's toothless response 14...a6? is part of the trouble. he would have been better with 14...Qb7! (15. dxc5 bxc5 16. Rxc5 Rxc5 17. Qxc5 Na6! Bxa6 Qxa6 and black looks pretty good) |
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| May-12-10 | | SirChrislov: #1 on my list.
Game Collection: Vault I: The Notorious 135 |
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| May-13-10 | | technical draw: It's probably been said before but I'm too lazy to check. Reading about this game it says that after Spassky resigned Fischer received a standing ovation and Spassky was also applauding. Fischer later said, "Did you see what he did? He's a real sportsman" |
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| Jun-09-10 | | PierreTheLion: Wouldn't it be great to have such a reputation that you can play 1. c4! |
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Jun-09-10
 | | kingfu: Spassky was the first to applaud! Fischer bolted off the stage! Spassky did not want to play a reversed Sicilian. Fischer was kind of good at that. Not too bad at QGD , either! Sportmanship is dead. Did anybody in Sofia applaud after Anand beat Topalov playing in his home town? Danialov? Anybody? Before the match, Topalov had a higher rating as the defender. How did that happen? I love Boris Spassky. He needed a win in the last round in a Soviet Championship to come out on top. He had White and played The King's Gambit! And won! I can imagine Boris, in the South of France, having bouillabaisse and a fine wine today. Winning at the game of LIFE is much better. |
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| Jun-22-10 | | sid12321: what about 37. ..g6? |
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| Jun-22-10 | | Petrosianic: <Sportmanship is dead. Did anybody in Sofia applaud after Anand beat Topalov playing in his home town? Danialov? Anybody?> I haven't heard, but I don't think we can assume that nobody did. From the poor sportsmanship that Topalov and Danailov have displayed, I would assume not in their case. But to make a little excuse for them, it's a lot easier to be sportsmanlike in this game, one good game near the beginning of the match, than it is to be good when you've just lost the last game of the match with White, from an equal score going in. This game was a disappointment, but Topalov-Anand, Game 12 was a heartbreaker. |
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Jul-16-10
 | | LIFE Master AJ: http://www.lifemasteraj.com/old_af-...
(Sorry, I did not see this in the earlier kibitzes.) |
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| Sep-08-10 | | belgian: <sid12321>
37...g6 appears good, but White can still force the exchange with 38. Rf6
with nothing else, Black is forced to play
38.... Nxf6
followed by
39. Rxf6
giving White a comfortable position while the Black pieces still have little to do. Moving the g pawn forward also removes too much of the Black king's cover and makes it easy for White to deliver a check to gain a tempo. Additionally, it give White too many options to continue the attack. It's possible that there are better lines for black, but both sides would have been pressured to meet time controls and Black's best try was to block the open file with his knight and try to force an exchange of material to call off White's attack. |
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| Sep-18-10 | | dmillergp: At the same time, Topalov didnt have the pressure of a superpower to win |
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| Sep-18-10 | | diceman: <sid12321: what about 37. ..g6?> After 37...g6
Black is crushed:
38. Qe5+ Rg7
39. Rf7 Rcxf7
40. Rxf7 Qg8
41. Rb7
would be a typical line.
Thanks
diceman |
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| Sep-30-10 | | Damianx: Spassky was sincere i saw an interview a few years ago & he says they were great fiends that Fisher was a gentleman over the board & all his problems real or imagined was away from the board he also goes on to say as well as being a genius at the board if it wasn,t 4 his stand the money recognition & life style of the modern top players would be no where near as lucrative |
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| Sep-30-10 | | Petrosianic: <Spassky was sincere i saw an interview a few years ago & he says they were great fiends that Fisher was a gentleman over the board> At least most of the time. In 1977, Spassky gave an interview saying that his nerves were in bad shape going into the match, and they gave way completely during Game 3, when Fischer started yelling at Lothar Schmid to shut up while Spassky was on the move, shortly after the game started. At that time, Spassky said that he wished he'd resigned the game on the spot, and said that it was impossible to play for the world title under such conditions. He said he thought that if he had done that, that it would have steadied his nerves the rest of the way. |
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| Oct-12-10 | | morphy2010: Spassky was clearly rattled due to fischers insistance on strict match conditions. |
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| Oct-13-10 | | TheFocus: <Morphy> You are dead wrong. Spassky was rattled by Fischer's antics away from the board. Fischer caused many problems in this match and should have been forfeited after the second game. Only Spassky being a gentleman saved this match. |
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| Dec-24-10 | | Ulhumbrus: 22 e5 displaces the e4 pawn controlling the d5 square. This suggests 22...Nb6 aiming for d5 |
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| Feb-06-11 | | AnalyzeThis: I notice that <TheFocus>'s post is lacking in specifics. What problems did Fischer cause? Cameras that were a distraction? A higher prize fund for both players (is that a problem?) |
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| Feb-19-11 | | Caissanist: I think Kasparov said it well: <Fischer had his strong principles, but the predator in him was well aware of the effect his antics had on his opponents.> |
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| Mar-05-11 | | hottyboy90: It looked like Fischer was showing oss at the end because he appeared to be delaying the attack when he could probably have gone for the kill instantly. |
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| Jun-27-11 | | DrMAL: <kingfu: Spassky was the first to applaud!> Very true, it was the only time in history, Spassky got up on the stage to applaud his victor after losing. Not because Spassky was the great person he was but because this game was genius, easily the best of the match and one of Fischer's greatest...still one of the greatest chess games ever played. BTW a wonderful documentary is posted on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYLq... |
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Jul-16-11
| | LIFE Master AJ: http://www.lifemasteraj.com/old_af-... I just re-did this page ... there is a free download on this page now as well. (Plus a link to Steve Etzel's page ... his page has about a dozen annotations ... all by famous GM's like Euwe, Seirawan, etc.) |
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| Jul-16-11 | | Shams: <Not because Spassky was the great person he was but because this game was genius> Given that a standing ovation from a competitor is, as you say, a singular event; and given that many such games of genius have been played, it seems churlish not to credit Spassky's magnanimity to some degree. |
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| Jul-16-11 | | bronkenstein: <...it seems churlish not to credit Spassky's magnanimity to some degree...> to put it mildly =) Esp having in mind today`s top level chess fights , let alone WC matches. Bravo , Boris! |
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| Jul-16-11 | | DrMAL: <Shams> Agreed, I think Spassky has a fabulous personality, Karpov and Anand too...all the more to admire! |
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| Jul-16-11 | | Shams: Spassky is by all accounts very affable and a gentleman -- all accounts save those of a certain type which receive plenty of coverage already and need not be recounted here. =) |
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sac: 38.Rxf6