Yes, I remember. World chess now has to be followed on the internet. Now, few, everyday people know when a world chess championship match is on. However, this match was headline news for many days. Everyone spoke of it. I suspect, it was the drama of east v west, viz a viz the cold war that inspired the media. Chess club memberships mushroomed. Many schools had chess teams and inter school chess leagues.
This game brings back many memories for me. My grandfather had had a brain accident and was recovering. He was a very good chess player. At that time the world championship was being played and the plays were published in the newspaper. I was only 6 years old and I was just learning chess. With my grandfather we recreated the plays between Boby Fischer and Spassky, and my grandfather explained each play to me. What a thrill. He could move with difficulty but he was happy playing chess with his grandson. Greetings from Argentina.
Bobby Fischer beat the weakest world champion Boris Spassky 17 wins 11 losses! Capablanca would beat Spassky 8 wins 6 draws zero losses!! Carlsen would beat weak Spassky 6 wins 6 draws zero losses! You can lose 11 times against the blunder maker Spassky!!
We cannot compare chess champions in different times in history. These historical comparisons lead to wrong conclusions. What made Fischer unique, was his deep understanding of chess in general.
@@mehrdadsalimiclassicalpersianv You are right. It is so beautiful how Fischer reacts and generates his game. We cannot describe it in words, we can only admire his genious. Thank you for answering. Franc Waller
I’m always amazed how even when Fischer doesn’t have the initiative he almost still always never has a totally passive position. He somehow always seems to bring about exchanging his worse pieces off.
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Fischer is the greatest player of black in history surely. The Sicilian, the pawn strategy, the sheer command of the board. His confidence with the pieces just overwhelmed Spassky. Sometimes it's more than just chess! In Fischer's case, it's cognitive mauling of the opponent.
Fischer is not a just a collection of memories from the past games. He is a God in the cognitive limitlessness of human race. He is a proof to infiniteness of human cognition
A very cool game. It takes on a different line than the ttypical right from move 3. That creates a wide variety of unique lines and play throughout the rest of the game. Fischer choice to sacrifice the bishop for the 3 pawn numerical advantage and then see how he leveraged it was fun to watch also.
What a suite of blunders from Spassky you mean. I would has won easily again Spassky myself if he plays like that !! (not reducing the merits of Fischer which is a great player, but this game is not a good example. It's an easy win for him.)
3:03, for like 8 moves I guessed wrong, Fischer was so subtle to get the attention and heat, off of the suspicious offense, and then he walked it right back into the corner like nothing happened.
Spassky was more aggressive and opportunistic, but in Fischer's moves you could see and sense a calmness and coolness but with clear game plan. Amazing world class chess players to watch, learn and behold.
White’s best next move is Rf4. The bishop cannot take f2 as let in the rook to d2 with check then to d1 and the a pawn queens. Black still wins by taking the bishop, and Ke2 follows. The f pawn will cost the rook, but pawn ending is won.
An American kid watching back then, I was rooting for, "our side." An old man now, I find myself pulling for GM Spassky., tho of course know the outcome. Two gentlemen, I trust had utmost respect for each other.
This matchup was a safe surrogate for the era's coldwar standoff. Ironic that chess's manipulations & tactics were very analogous to the geopolitical machinations of the time.
Reason why I play alekhine cos of Fischer. Still can’t believe Fischer won with his rook tied down on g8 and Spassky king and rook still not able to contain Fischer’s pawns.
It would be helpful to know which game this was in the match. Fischer won 7 on the board, lost 2 on the board, lost 1 by forfeit and the rest were draws.
This is game 13, an Alekhine Defence, which took Spassky by surprise. Spassky fluffed many chances to win with an obvious early pawn push and succumbed in the endgame. Despite Spassky's mistakes, this remains one of my favourite Fischer games. Because of this match I took to playing chess at a competitive level. Never looked back. Chess has been a good friend to me over the years and I've started playing speed chess online in the past couple of years, which has, if anything, made me a better player than I was 51+ years ago. Happy Chessing: R🙊😊😻💕🎉🎂.
This match had to the varied type of openings/defenses of any match ever played. All to keep Spassky with all his prep and assistants off balance. Just tremendous prep on the part of Fischer!
2:13 bishop to b4 would have been an interesting line, pinning blacks e pawn and supporting c5 for the knight - I’ll have to research this game and the analysis that was done if white makes this move
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I'm confused. Wikipedia & my memory both say Fischer resigned in this first game. I'm also confused because it looks like he could have drawn the match. Please advise! Thanks.
with the bishop? I played that in stockfish as that was the best move from the analysis, then set computer vs. computer and it came out a draw. 3 pawns and rook on both sides, draw by repetition. But it took 27 moves.
So at this point he cant move king. If he moved bishop away from rook, fischer can move rook down to check him and then mate in 1. The only option is keep moving rook but really no chance for him to beat fisher.
Why doesn't black move pawn to A1 and promote at 7:40? Seems like a game winner. Even if white immediately promotes theirs you gain a queen after exchanging your rook for their promoted pawn. Which leaves black with queen/rook/bishop with pawn advantage vs rook/rook/bishop
Rexd5+ (black loses bishop and has to move king), Kc7 (king can no longer take pawn on d7 because it’s covered by the rooks), Rxa1 (black loses promoted queen, and can’t take back on a1 because white’s bishop covers that square while also covering d8, white’s queening square), Rg8 (black has to preserve his rook and cover d8), white queens on d8, black takes, white takes. White is now up a rook and bishop. So basically white’s passed pawn had to be taken on d7 or the game was lost.
@@TheRomanianWolf but white bishop would take the queen at A1 (D4xA1). I think Black would take the bishop first with the rook, d7xd4, then if black does e4xd4, the pawn would be free to go to A1, yes? and if White's king took the A2 pawn instead, black's rook would take white's rook and then the pawn promotion F2 -F1 would be easy.
I guess you mean at 6:19. I don't see any immediate mate in two or anything, but my guess is that if he plays bxh8, Rxh8 and that bishop is no longer around to cover a1, nor block black's K from e7, nor cover d8. White's passed pawn falls whenever black wants, and a white rook must be assigned to cover a1. I would still lose as black, but I get some notion that black can advance pawns b and c before white can get his K over there and play Rxa2 or Rxa1.
Should never have got to this on move 25 Spassky played Qc3. Instead e5-e6 gives at least a draw, with more winning chances for white than in the game. Surely the point of the previous move Nc5 does anyone know why Spassky did not play e6 ?
IF Spasky was not Great, then Fisher's , ONE and ONLY World Championship MEANS NOTHING. Spasky MUST BE GREAT in order to make Fisher GREAT PERIOD 🇺🇸🦈 😅
Sorry ? since 71. Bc5 ?? (and I'd gladly add 5 more '?'). Probably the worst move of all time in a world championship. Even a unclassed club player wouldn'd do that blunder.
Why resign? I'm not very good, but it looks like: A) 1. Bxf2 Rd2+ 2. Ka1 Rd1+ 3.K b2 a1(Q) B) 1. Kxb3 Rxd4 2.Rxd4 a1(Q) ----- if Kxa2 Fischer takes the rook and has an easily won rook+pawn v. king.
71. was probably the worst possible move in that position ... it's a -90 evaluation on stockfish. Ununderstandable at that level ... maybe some medical problem ? digestion ?
Come on! Fischer beat the weakest chess World champion Boris Spassky only 17 wins 10 losses! Capablanca would beat Spassky easily 8 wins 6 draws zero losses! Carlsen would beat Spassky easily 6 wins 6 draws zero losses! Fischer beat Spassky 10 wins 15 draws 5 losses in 1992 at age 49! Spassky was only 162nd world ranking and rated 2558 in 1992! Fischer score 58,33%! So we get Fischer rating 2617,78 in 1992 at age 49! Lasker won the New York tournament in 1924 beating world Best scoring 2875 elo at age 56! Fischer 2617, 78 vs Lasker 2875! Crazy lunatic Yasser Seirawan claiming wrongly that Fischer was world record power and form in 1992! The highest tournament elo rating score is Fabiano Caruana 8,5/10 StLouis elo 3080! Karpov 11/13 Linares 1994 elo score 3040! Alekhine in San Remo 1930 elo score 3040! Fischer and Kasparov their Best tournament scores only 2990! Morphy Tal Alekhine Kasparov had much more beautiful games than Fischer! Fischer lost 5 times against awful blunder maker Geller! Fischer vs Geller 1967 flawed masterpiece Geller errors Queen a5?? Knightxd4??? Bishop d7??? Bishop c6?? Fischer moved 17:exf7?? 17:Rook f6! Wins easily! Fischer vs Stein famous Bishop f5! But earlier 26:Knight f7! Or 26:a3! Fischer 26:Knight f3??? Fischer vs Larsen game one in 1971 Fischer played Bishop f3?? Bishop d6! wins! Fischer vs Spassky 1966 olympiad Queen a6?? Rook e3! Wins s! Karpov have won over 160 super grand Master tournaments! Fischer won zero only inter zonals 1962 1970! Fischer was second in 1966 Santa Monica 1966 behind blunder maker Spassky! Fischer did not won Havanna 1965! Carlsen is 100xtimes better than Spassky and Geller! Carlsen would beat Fischer 30 times easily! Stockfish 16 would beat Fischer 1000-0!!
Fischer would have simply ignored it as he wouldn’t have taken it . Allowing him to queen his pawn first. Then he’s queening his other pawn as it’s protected 👍. Spassky would have certainly known that
Spassky committed a big mistake. Don't think this is a "brilliant" game, from Fisher side. Just a silly move from Spassky side followed by a big mistake. Anyway, thanks for the upload. 🙄😳🥺🆗✔️
People always seem to play big mistakes against Fischer. Spassky almost never made blunders like this against other opponent, at this point of his career.
It starts with King F7E6. I still think what i watched... How u played with your King in this way in a chess championship finale. King walk around in table with pawns as if a morning walk in a garden... LOLLLl. How u win a championship finale with a king. U must protect your king Fischer!!!! it is not made for take match Man..And u are not a legend, u are also so cool