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Jun-03-15
 | | TheFocus: <Well, I must prepare to bite the crocodile> - Boris Spassky (on preparing for the '92 rematch with Fischer). |
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Jun-03-15
| | TheFocus: <My God, it is a miracle! Bobby is so kind, so friendly. He is normal!> - Boris Spassky (on their first meeting before the '92 rematch). |
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Jun-03-15
| | TheFocus: <Bobby pulls me out of oblivion. He makes me fight. It's a miracle> - Boris Spassky (on their '92 rematch) |
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Jun-03-15
| | TheFocus: <Spassky and Fischer were chess artists each trying to paint the Mona Lisa while grabbing at the other’s brush> - Larry Parr (on the '92 match). |
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Jun-03-15
| | TheFocus: <The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed> - Garry Kasparov (on Fischer's play during most of the '92 rematch with Spassky). |
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Jun-03-15
| | TheFocus: <He is too lazy to study the new opening theory and he believes that he is World Champion, so why should he play?> - Boris Spassky (on Fischer playing again after their '92 rematch). |
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Jun-03-15
| | TheFocus: <I still hope to kill Fischer> - Boris Spassky. |
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| Nov-11-15 | | Albion 1959: Fischer's first competitive game for twenty years. This is probably one of his best ever games ! Imagine if had not played another game and all we had was this one. He could have gone back into anonymity leaving the chess world and saying "look I am still the best and as good as I ever was and I could beat Karpov and Kasparov !" |
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Nov-11-15
 | | HeMateMe: not a pun, but nice, creative thinking. I definitely like it. |
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| Sep-01-16 | | Howard: Tomorrow, on Sept 2, 1992, Fischer finally pushed his first pawn in 20 years in a serious game ! |
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| Sep-01-16 | | Howard: Nothing got captured for over the first 25 moves ?! Never knew that ! |
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| Sep-01-16 | | john barleycorn: <Howard: Tomorrow, on Sept 2, 1992, Fischer finally pushed his first pawn in 20 years in a serious game !> yes, and what a game it was. like he had never been away from the board. |
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| Nov-17-16 | | mburch1974: Nh4!! What???!! Incredible!! |
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Nov-17-16
 | | diceman: <Riverbeast: Raymond Keene's notes to this game in the match book said that none of the GMs analyzing in the pressroom saw 40. Nh4. "(They were) unanimously analyzing 40. Qd4+ Ke6, which leads nowhere in particular."> <mburch1974: Nh4!! What???!! Incredible!!> If you include game 3 of the 72 match.
A N on h4/h5 was a "theme" vs. Spassky. |
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Nov-21-16
 | | Sally Simpson: Hi Diceman,
"If you include game 3 of the 72 match. A N on h4/h5 was a 'theme' vs. Spassky." You may have discovered something there. Fischer's Black Knights going to h5. Game 5, also a Fischer win, featured a Knight on h5. 
click for larger viewSpassky vs Fischer, 1972 Game 17 was a draw.
click for larger viewSpassky vs Fischer, 1972 This was obviously a Fischer ploy he had been working on. 'Knights on h5 and the game comes alive.'
as opposed to:
"Knights on a5 and your game takes a dive."
Pre '72 when playing the mirror move Na5 produced two losses. 
click for larger viewSpassky vs Fischer, 1966 and from the above diagram add the moves h3 and b6. 
click for larger viewSpassky vs Fischer, 1970 Great News! The secret of chess is out. Na5 is bad - Nh5 is good. I'm now off to play Nf6-Nh5 the very first chance I get. It's a pity my pet defence is The Alekhine. 
click for larger view |
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| May-21-17 | | mburch1974: i think it works just because most don't expect it. re: nh5 fischer stuff |
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Jul-07-17
 | | kingscrusher: I have added Closed Captions to my video annotation of this game here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWO... - Cheers, K |
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Nov-20-17
 | | ZonszeinP: 8-c3! Fischer was never "afraid" of the Marshall |
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Mar-13-18
| | ajk68: Having run the analysis with the Chessgames' Stockfish engine, it appears this game is littered with mistakes (not that I understand them). |
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| May-16-19 | | N.O.F. NAJDORF: A similar concentration of White's heavy artillery on the a-file (QR file)
occurred in this game 63 years before:
Capablanca vs K Treybal, 1929 |
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| Mar-05-20 | | N.O.F. NAJDORF: What's wrong with 48 ... Qd1 ? |
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Mar-05-20
| | beatgiant: <N.O.F. NAJDORF>
<What's wrong with 48 ... Qd1 ?>
I agree that looks better than the move in the game, but after 48...Qd1 49. Nd4 White's a pawn up and Black's position is full of weak points, so it still looks pretty hopeless. |
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May-22-20
 | | Big Pawn: < ZonszeinP: 8-c3! Fischer was never "afraid" of the Marshall> Fischer was the kind of player who would grab a pawn and hold it, like Steinitz. |
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May-23-20
 | | harrylime: Fischer played on empty squares ... Like Mozart This game in context is pretty cool. No professional chess games since 1972 .... |
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Dec-06-20
 | | Alex Schindler: for all the conversation about Fischer's 40 Nh4!?, I cant for the life of me see why it's better than Qd4+, the move everyone expected, if Spassky finds Nf8 in response to the former. Are we so sure that was even a good move without the benefit of hindsight? I just checked and stockfish doesn't seem to think so. |
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