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Jul-13-19
 | | Joshka: Does he ever do interviews? Lives in Russia?/France?....Wonder why he never wrote on book on Fischer? He would have the sole authority over all players to write one. 50 games contested between them. |
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Jul-13-19
 | | plang: He never wrote any books - never did a book on his own games. Why would he do one on Fischer? |
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Jul-13-19
 | | Sally Simpson: ***
Spassky says in this interview he has a manuscript called 'The Dramatic Match' it's all about the Korchnoi - Spassky Candidates Final (1977/78) match. https://www.chess.com/blog/Spektrow... *** |
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Aug-24-19
| | Joshka: <Sally Simpson> Hey thanks for posting the Spassky interview! First time reading he now regrets that he allowed the 1972 Match to continue!! In hindsight, had he just left Iceland with his title still in tact, who knows the many scenarios that would have been played out!!?? |
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Aug-24-19
 | | gezafan: <WorstPlayerEver: <1981 he [Spassky] got a first (unsavoury) glimpse of an emerging superstar, Gary Kasparov. The then 19-year-old strode up to his opponent of the next day, ex-world champion Petrosian, and, quite unprompted, snarled, `I'm going to f*** you, Tigran 'Vartanovich.'> Kasparov wasn't 19 in 1981 though.>
I wonder if this is true. Did Kasparov really say this to Petrosian? What is the source? |
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| Aug-24-19 | | RookFile: Well, if he did, it didn't exactly work out that way. For a while Petrosian had a plus score against Kasparov until it finally got evened up. |
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| Jan-30-20 | | edbermac: Happy Birthday Boris Vasilievich! |
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| Jan-30-20 | | Parachessus: What if Boris had left Iceland after game two and retained his title? Would we have seen a Spassky vs Karpov match in 1975? Hard for me to believe that Fischer would remain active in world chess if he lost the match in such a weird way. Discuss. |
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| Jan-30-20 | | popnstart: Happy Birthday, Boris! |
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| Jan-30-20 | | botvinnik64: Spassky! So sad that here in the USA - and elsewhere - you are known mainly for your loss in 1972. I agree w the views stated above that if Boris had claimed foul and walked away from the match after Game 2 then chess history might, indeed, be quite different. But we all know what happened...in this sense Spassky has always seemed a tragic figure. |
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Jan-30-20
 | | juan31: A true <Gentleman> |
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| Mar-31-20 | | The Rocket: One of the great attacking players in history. His legacy suffers from at times lack of objectivity and strategical depth. He sometimes wanted to play a certain way no matter if the position warranted it or not. When he had the upper hand he rarely let go. |
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| Apr-01-20 | | ewan14: His record in the candidates matches in the sixties was legendary |
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Apr-01-20
 | | alexmagnus: <So sad that here in the USA - and elsewhere - you are known mainly for your loss in 1972> And elsewhere? I wouldn't think so. Spassky is known elsewhere for much more. As is Taimanov, another player often cited as being known only for being defeated by Fischer. Not everyone is so Fischer-centric as the US-written chess history is (that Fischer-centrism leading sometimes to confused statements like saying Taimanov and Spassky were the same generation :D). |
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Apr-01-20
| | alexmagnus: <that Fischer-centrism leading sometimes to confused statements like saying Taimanov and Spassky were the same generation> Or to the opinion that you needed to reach the Candidates to become a GM (which in reality was quite a rare way to get this title, a way taken mostly by child prodigies as Fischer - and Spassky, by the way - were). |
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| Apr-01-20 | | ewan14: Korchnoi named his three greatest attacking ( at the time he was crticising Tal ) Spassky was one !
I think the others were Alekhine and Keres |
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| Apr-01-20 | | ewan14: attacking players |
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| Apr-26-20 | | hemy: In September 1971 Spassky participated in in the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) Open at Toronto.
Results of the Swiss 6 rounds tournament:
1-2. Robert Byrne and Pal Benko 6/6.
3-4. Boris Spassky and Laszlo Witt (Canada) 5.5/6A field of 248, a record, participated in the Canadian Exhibition Open at Toronto last month. The event, a six‐round Swiss system tournament, saw two American grandmasters, Robert Byrne of Ossining, N. Y., and Pal Benko of New York tie for first place at 6‐0. Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, the world champion, shared third place at 5½‐½. A young Canadian player, Lawrence Day, held Spassky to a draw in a hard‐fought closed Sicilian Defense and the loss of this half‐point enabled Leslie Witt to tie Spassky for third. Arthur Bisguler, a grandmaster from Hartsdale, N. Y., and Walter Browne, an Australian grandmaster who is now a resident of the United States, were never in contention after being upset by lower‐rated players. The Manhattan Chess Club champion, Arthur Feuerstein, also played. The game Spassky-Ignas Zalys was published in "Draugas" (Chicago, Illinois), October 8, 1971, p. 2. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ugyq13mnf... [Event "CNE open"]
[Site "Toronto"]
[Date "1971.09.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Spassky, Boris"]
[Black "Zalys, Ignas"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B19"]
[PlyCount "77"]
[Source: "'Draugas' (Chicago, Illinois), October 8, 1971, p. 2."] 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. Ng3 Bg6 6. h4 h6 7. Nf3 Nd7 8. h5
Bh7 9. Bd3 Bxd3 10. Qxd3 e6 11. Bd2 Qc7 12. c4 Ngf6 13. Bc3 O-O-O 14. O-O-O Bd6
15. Ne4 Nxe4 16. Qxe4 Rhe8 17. Kb1 c5 18. d5 exd5 19. Qxd5 Ne5 20. Rhe1 f6 21.
Nh4 Bf8 22. Qe4 Rxd1+ 23. Rxd1 Qc6 24. Re1 Qxe4+ 25. Rxe4 Kd7 26. Kc2 Nf7 27.
Rxe8 Kxe8 28. Kd3 Kd7 29. Ng6 Bd6 30. Ke4 Ke6 31. f4 Bc7 32. f5+ Kd6 33. b4 a6
34. a4 Ng5+ 35. Kd3 Nf7 36. b5 axb5 37. axb5 Kd7 38. Nf8+ Ke7 39. Ne6 1-0 Sources: "The New York Times", October 4, 1971, p. 36;
"Draugas" (Chicago, Illinois), October 8, 1971, p. 2. |
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| Apr-26-20 | | ewan14: There is a quote by Korchnoi regarding Spassky' s tournament play in his ( Spassky's ) earlier days
along the lines that Spassky would tire towards the end of a tournament because he had been trying to play masterpieces |
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| May-05-20 | | Helios727: During the 1968 candidates matches commentators began to remark on Spassky's 'universal style' as his major strength. Fischer might calculate better, Tal might have more flair for sacrifices, and Korchnoi might be a better defender, but Spassky was the greatest all-rounder. [Leonard Barden, from the forward to Bernard Cafferty's book, "Spassky's 100 Best Games"]. |
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| May-24-20 | | Octavia: "I'm going to f*** you," this expression is not used like that in other languages. |
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| Aug-09-20 | | Agferna: Hey botvinnik64, Spassky is not a loser or a tragic figure. He is a winner, and not only at chess, but at LIFE, which is much more difficult. Look at the picture above. Is that the smile of a loser? That is the smile of a winner, and not just a winner, the smile of a genius with kind empathy to those less talented. Every world champion has to eventually lose their title, either through match play (we hope), through death/health inability (sad), or through deliberate forfeit (you know who). Spassky lost his world title like the great world champions do, he lost it valiantly on the board. Spassky is among the most well balanced world champions we have ever seen - exemplary. I met him once in Argentina 1978 with his gorgeous wife, and I can tell you this - he was a happy realized man, a true winner in LIFE! He inspired me. I instantly realized chess isn't everything. This man is happier without the tile than the man who won the title from him. This man has been able to convert and transform the title into something much more important. What a genius, what a gentleman, what a sport, what a world champion, what a great person, what a winner, what an inspiration, the great Boris Spassky!!! Cheers All. |
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| Nov-04-20 | | Messiah: Spassky's contribution to chess is immeasurable. Whatever will happen to this twisted world, he will always remain a legend. |
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| Nov-30-20 | | cameosis: <billy ray valentine> do you happen to have the san francisco simul games by spassky somewhere and could share them? the old link you posted (14 years ago XD) is dead:
http://beta.uschess.org/frontend/ne...
thanks! |
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| Feb-12-21 | | Poisonpawns: Spassky interview right after Fischer loss. This is why he was never the same again IMO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BP... |
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