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Sep-01-23
 | | Sally Simpson: Not sure about Spassky being finished after 1972. He was still a great player winning the USSR championship in 1973 with Karpov coming second. USSR Championship (1973) 10 years later he wins Linares (1983) again with Karpov coming second. |
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Sep-01-23
 | | plang: Spassky played some great chess after 72, particularly ~73-75. |
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Sep-02-23
 | | harrylime: <<Sally Simpson: Not sure about Spassky being finished after 1972. He was still a great player winning the USSR championship in 1973 with Karpov coming second.
USSR Championship (1973)
10 years later he wins Linares (1983) again with Karpov coming second.> > He wasn't the 60's Spassky. The 60's Spassky was immense. He was not the same player. ... He is a natural chess genius.
After 72 he was running on fumes. |
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Sep-02-23
 | | perfidious: Always have thought it ironic that Spassky booked one of his great triumphs in that 1973 Soviet title event. |
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Sep-02-23
| | harrylime:
<<perfidious: Always have thought it ironic that Spassky booked one of his great triumphs in that 1973 Soviet title event.>> After 1972 Boris was running on fumes. |
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Sep-02-23
| | harrylime:
<<plang: Spassky played some great chess after 72, particularly ~73-75.>> Ofcourse he did .
He is a chess genius.
A child prodigy from the war.
But !!
It wasn't the same Spasski in the 70's after 1972 ... it just wasn't . |
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Sep-02-23
 | | MissScarlett: Was it the same Spassky in 1972? Didn't Tal say something like 'There was no Spassky in this match.' |
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Sep-02-23
| | perfidious: Have never seen such a remark attributed to Tal, but all the drama surrounding the match had to have taken its toll, particularly on such an impressionable character as Spassky. |
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Sep-02-23
 | | fredthebear: It's rather unfortunate that Chessgames did not bother to mark the 50th anniversary of the Fischer-Spassky match last year. |
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Sep-03-23
 | | MarcusBierce: <plang: Spassky played some great chess after 72, particularly ~73-75.> Indeed, yet not as well as his record shows from ‘64-‘70. He beat everyone available in every format possible: a truly amazing run |
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Sep-03-23
| | Sally Simpson: Still not convinced the 1972 match put out Spassky's flame. He played some great games after 1972 and of course he was getting older, he was 35 in 1972. He himself said he peaked from 1964-1970 and by 1971 Bobby was the stronger player. Boris thinks the last time he played well was Montpellier Candidates (1985) He admits Tal was right but also says before the 1972 match he was a bit of a wreck. (not after) "Fischer made short work of me. Tal was right when he said, ‘There was no Spassky in this match’. I had actually lost before the match. My nervous system was completely broken. The Soviets were bothering me, and I also made my life difficult. Both Fischer and I were fighting windmills!" One of the best chess interviews ever, very open and revealing. https://www.kingpinchess.net/2007/1... well worth taking the time to read it. "By the way, during my first match with Petrosyan Smyslov saved me from starvation: he often invited me to his house for dinners, so that by the time I had lost the match I had gained six kilos!" |
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Sep-04-23
| | MarcusBierce: <Sally Simpson: Still not convinced the 1972 match put out Spassky's flame.> It didn’t. Karpov’s arrival did it. Even with good nerves, he found Karpov’s play to be inscrutable. Spassky admits that Karpov was his most difficult opponent. |
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Sep-04-23
| | perfidious: <MB....Even with good nerves, (Spassky) found Karpov’s play to be inscrutable. Spassky admits that Karpov was his most difficult opponent.> From 1971 through the 1980s, this was true of everyone; only Kasparov on his best form could overcome the little man from Zlatoust, with the edge not a great one even then, particularly in match play. |
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Sep-04-23
 | | Joshka: <Sally Simpson> Thanks for posting the article with Boris. It's always very interesting to read interviews with the old Soviet hierarchy.
A couple of times while boarding planes to go to tournaments I would run into Anatoly Lein who lived not all that far from me, and he was always open to have friendly chess talk about the old days. I wished I had had the hutzpah to just ask him for a formal sit down and conduct an interview of some sort. He and Korchnoi were the same age and he must have also known Boris. Oh well thanks again. |
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| Jan-30-24 | | Nosnibor: Happy birthday Grandmaster Boris. |
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| Jan-30-24 | | Damenlaeuferbauer: Happy 87th birthday to the 10th world champion Boris Spassky, the last "Leningrad Cowboy", the best chess player of the 1960s, and after Viktor Korchnoi's death in 2016 the ONLY human being, who beat Robert James Fischer, Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov in a classical game with the black pieces. "Do I have more to say?" (Billy Joel, "We didn't start the fire") |
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| Jan-30-24 | | mk volkov: Towards, Kazimirich!
Long live to the 10th chess king. |
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| Feb-02-24 | | SkySports: <Damenlaeuferbauer: ...the ONLY human being, who beat Robert James Fischer, Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov in a classical game with the black pieces>. Well... it's the only human being to have won with those players simply because there are not many players who had a game with Fischer still around... I was then curious to know who are the living players who won a game with Fischer, and this is what I found: Fischer vs U Dresen, 1970 Fischer vs M Christoph, 1970 Fischer vs C Garcia Palermo, 1970 Fischer vs V Kovacevic, 1970 F Olafsson vs Fischer, 1958 Gheorghiu vs Fischer, 1966 |
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| Feb-02-24 | | Damenlaeuferbauer: <SkySports> In the history of chess, there are just TWO human beings, who beat Robert James Fischer, Anatoly Karpov AND Garry Kasparov (maybe the three all-time greats before the appearance of Magnus Carlsen) in a classical game with the black pieces: Viktor Kortchnoi, the first "Leningrad Cowboy", who died after a very eventful life in 2016, and the now 87 years old 10th world champion Boris Spasski, the second "Leningrad Cowboy"! |
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Feb-03-24
| | fredthebear: Vasily Smyslov was active at the top for many years and should be included with his compatriots. No need to look this up; everything FTB posts will be triple researched for errors every morning by 3-4 of my dedicated on-line followers, or just deleted due to their ignorance and lack of humor. Let them confirm or deny. Smyslov is a safe bet. |
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Mar-16-24
 | | FSR: Interview with Boris Spassky, Jr.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5L... |
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Mar-16-24
 | | Dionysius1: A very heartwarming video - thanks <FSR> |
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Mar-16-24
 | | Williebob: Very enjoyable video. Boris Jr. paints an attractive picture of his life growing up. I was curious about <FTB>'s above post, guessing there was indeed a "safe bet" for Smyslov's results against fellow legends, so here's the fact check. Smyslov notched one win apiece against Fischer (with the Black pieces), Karpov (with White), and Kasparov (with Black). For Karpov and Kasparov, the future champs were meeting Smyslov for the first time (in Fischer's case, it was their third game at the 1959 Candidates Tournament; the first two games were drawn, and Bobby evened the score before the event was over). "Get 'em while they're young", I think Benko said, applies perfectly here: Bobby was 16, Tolya 20, and Gary 12! Vasily was a teacher to the greatest. |
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Mar-16-24
| | perfidious: <Williebob>, have never seen 'Get 'em while they're young' attributed to Benko, but John Curdo certainly wrote that as far back as the 1980s at least. John was one of the most decent people I met at the board, as well as one of the toughest. RIP |
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Mar-16-24
| | Williebob: Thank you <Perfidious>. At least I bought a correct vowel!
Given his lengthy and active career, no surprise Curdo coined it. |
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