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Jan-31-10
 | | Open Defence: < KingG: 3 hours of Spassky commentary here : http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.c.... I love his expression 'chookie' for 'check'.> and nookie for mate ? ;-p |
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| Jan-31-10 | | KingG: <Open Defence> Lol. |
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| Feb-07-10 | | 5hrsolver: Would not it be nice if Spassky wrote a book about his 1972 match with Fischer. I am sure it is a time in Spassky's life that he would rather forget. But it would prove an invaluable documentary from the man who sat closest to Fischer during the championship match. One many people would be grateful for. And also I think this book would sell very well. Just stay away from the politics (or touch very briefly on it). Write about how he felt during every phase and every game of the match. His observations of Fischer. His mistakes even. How accurate was Fischer's preparation for the match. I am sure there are a lot of interesting stories that happened during the match. How he and his seconds studied games during adjournment. Of course it is up to spassky to provide the level of detail he would want to put out to chess fans. Also it would be a nice tribute to Bobby Fischer to talk about the finest time in his life. |
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| Mar-08-10 | | hedgeh0g: I had a Spassky hairdo when I got up this morning. I decided to keep it so that everyone would think I was good at chess, but alas, I don't think anybody recognised me... |
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Mar-08-10
 | | HeMateMe: I think Boris is somewhat allergic to hard work. He certainly could have written a few good chess books in his time; I guess he doesn't want to do the reasearch. He has certainly lived through some interesting chess history, and helped create it. the matches with Petrosain and Karpov, a lot of good stuff. |
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| Mar-28-10 | | Alphastar: I guess Spassky is now the oldest still living ex-world champ? |
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Mar-28-10
 | | alexmagnus: Yes, he is, now that Smyslov died. Smyslov actually was the oldest <ever>. |
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| Apr-09-10 | | vonKrolock: fogonazos of the week: <"Vasiljevic, Fischer-Spassky 1992 sponsor, <returns> to Serbia"> http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... |
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| Apr-09-10 | | kingfu: Come on guys, you have to be kidding me. Boris Spassky has enough money to live comfortably in the south of France. Not Moscow in the winter time. He still got $2 mega bucks for LOSING the re-match with Fischer in 1992. Anybody made 2 million since 1992? Anybody writing books made $2 million since 1992? Anybody? Spassky needed a win in the Russian Championship and played The King's Gambit against e5. And won! Spassky saw a brilliancy from Fischer in the match in 1972 and stood up and applauded. Has anybody showed that kind of sportsmanship in 4 decades? Anybody? Boris Spassky lost The Battle but won at real life.
Spaseba, Boris. You are The Real Champion. At Chess and at Life. I will be coming soon to have boullabaise and the Four Knights! |
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| Apr-26-10 | | drnooo: Spassky for many more years in their active careers was simply stronger than Fischer. It was Petrosian, then Spassky and then Fischer, and even then Fischer could not beat certain russians. Then very briefly when essentially both of the ones before him had very likely deep deep down had enough of the title bobby took it over and did so in a grand fashion but who can say how heavily the crown weighed on Boris and if so, if he really deep down was sick of the whole deal was only too glad to be playing at a level way below him. Something was rotten in Denmark...uhh Iceland with that match and the crazy prince Hamlet uhh Bobby saw to it, driving Boris plumb crazy too. |
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| May-08-10 | | jakaiden: Hey guys, I'm almost done with Spassky's 400 collection Game Collection: Boris Spassky's 400 Selected Games I just need to upload the rest. Enjoy. |
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May-08-10
| | HeMateMe: < Spassky for many more years in their active careers was simply stronger than Fischer. > Is there a lot of data to base this on? Fischer turned pro in 1958 but only played Spassky 5 times until 1972, a 14 year period? Maybe a look at their tournamnet records would be more flective of their abilities. |
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| May-12-10 | | M.D. Wilson: Spassky, it seems, had an edge over Fischer until their Match in 1972. What is Boris up to these days? Did he recover from his stroke? He's now the oldest living World Champion, and is one of my favourite players. |
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| May-25-10 | | drnooo: Curious: Until 72 when Spassky basically threw in the towel for all intents and purposes, he and Korchnoi after many many a duel were dead even. That was how good Korchnoi was. Korchnoi also was even with Fischer at that period. Also the percentage of draws with that trio was pretty low. |
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| May-25-10 | | Marmot PFL: << Spassky for many more years in their active careers was simply stronger than Fischer. > <Is there a lot of data to base this on?> No data at all. Fischer at his peak was over 100 points above Spassky (and everyone else), while Spassky even at the top was more a 1st among equals, and for a shorter time. |
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May-25-10
 | | keypusher: <Marmot PFL: << Spassky for many more years in their active careers was simply stronger than Fischer. >
<Is there a lot of data to base this on?> No data at all. Fischer at his peak was over 100 points above Spassky (and everyone else), while Spassky even at the top was more a 1st among equals, and for a shorter time.> "No data at all" strikes me as an overstatement. There isn't a lot of direct evidence. Before the match the head to head score was +3-0-2 in Spassky's favor. They had two common tournaments; they tied for first in one and Spassky won the other. Going beyond head to head stuff, in the 1960s Spassky won matches against Keres, Geller (twice), Tal, Larsen, and Korchnoi, and of course split a couple of world title matches with Petrosian. Fischer had...a drawn or lost match with Reshevsky, depending on how you want to score it. Re tournaments, Fischer had the Stockholm interzonal and a whole bunch of very impressive U.S. championships, led by the 11-0-0 sweep in '63-64. Between 1962 and 1970 he hardly played abroad, though. Spassky tied for first in the 1964 interzonal and won the extraordinarily tough 1964 zonal to get himself into the world championship ranks, where he stayed until he finally beat Petrosian in 1969. He won a couple of Soviet championships and had some fine performances in other tournaments. He didn't always finish at or near the top like Fischer, but he was playing in stronger events, too. Reaching back a ways, his performance in the 1956 interzonal was considerably better than Fischer's performance at Curacao in 1962 at roughly the same age. I think if you had done a GM poll anytime from 1965 through 1970 you'd get pretty strong support for Spassky being better than Fischer. |
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| May-25-10 | | miguelito: fischer was rated 2713 in 1963 , after botvinnik 2736 , in 1964 fischer and petrosian first ..2690 . |
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| Jul-30-10 | | M.D. Wilson: Spassky was still better than Fischer, at least in the head to head match-ups, until 1972. |
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| Jul-30-10 | | miguelito: ja ja , spassky was world champion because fischer did not play in the candidates 1965 or 1968 . |
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Jul-30-10
| | HeMateMe: I think the neurotic Fischer wasn't sure he could beat Spassky in the mid 60s, and that is why he didn't play in the championship cycle. He MIGHT have beaten Spassky in a Candidates match--but i think he stayed away, because he wasn't absolutely sure. |
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| Jul-30-10 | | Petrosianic: <miguelito> <ja ja , spassky was world champion because fischer did not play in the candidates 1965 or 1968 .> If Fischer had been as sure of that as you are, he might have played. |
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| Sep-05-10 | | fab4: To say Fischer was avoiding Boris in the 60's is just silly. Fischer did'nt participate in the '64-'65 cycle because of the Curacao fallout, and the '67- '68 cycle due to the very specific tournament conditions at the interzonal in Sousse, causing him to withdraw when sitting on top of the tournament table. To imply his abscence was a result of some kind of Borisphobia is laughable as well as not being reality. Had they met in '66 it would've been a much closer contest for sure.Spassky is a very underrated WC, mainly because of his loss of appetite and ambition in the game after losing his title in '72. I've always thought the Spassky of the '65- '70 period would've beaten Karpov in the 70's . |
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| Sep-05-10 | | Petrosianic: <Fischer did'nt participate in the '64-'65 cycle because of the Curacao fallout,> How do you figure, when he got what he had demanded (scrapping the Candidates Tournament in favor of Candidates Matches)? Actually, Fischer gave contradictory explanations about why he wasn't playing. In December '63 he said it was because 1st Prize in the Interzonal was only $200, and that wasn't worth spending a month of his life to win. Later, he said that the money had nothing to do with it. Probably it was the Curacao fallout in a way. Fischer the human being made excuses for his defeat, but Fischer the grandmaster could see the deficiencies in his own play at Curacao, and wasn't willing to make another try at the world title until he was sure he was ready. In 1964 he wasn't sure. In 1967 he was almost sure, but the ease with which he let himself get sidetracked from his life's dream shows that he still wasn't fully confident. In 1970, when he really was ready, he kept playing despite much greater hurdles than the ones he'd faced at Sousse. <causing him to withdraw when sitting on top of the tournament table.> That's actually a much-repeated myth. By the time he withdrew, Larsen had taken the lead. But he was leading before his first forfeit. Not that it really matters. If he had finished the tournament, he surely would have qualified. |
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| Sep-05-10 | | miguelito: fab4 is right . |
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| Sep-05-10 | | I play the Fred: <mainly because of his loss of appetite and ambition in the game after losing his title in '72.> I see this repeated time and time again, but I don't believe it. Spassky won the Soviet championship the very next year after losing to Fischer and was a WC candidate four (4) times. If those are the results of an unmotivated player, Spassky's true strength must have been around 3500 or something. The reality was that Spassky was still very strong after losing to Fischer, but there can only be one World Champion and one Challenger. Spassky didn't get back into that circle simply because, thanks to advancing age, he wasn't quite as strong as he used to be. (Don't all scream Korchnoi. Citing one of the biggest freaks of nature chess ever produced is proof of nothing) |
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