Spassky vs. Fischer | World Championship 1972 - GM Yasser Seirawan - 2015.09.17 

+Aris Kolaretakis Most university students while academics are actually morons. That's why.

i'm not a university student tho

Aris Kolaretakis You are what I say you are you gyro eating putz.

CrazyMunky84 everyone likes gyro dude don't blame me

omg 2.55 am on my clock

not quite impeccable, but good nonetheless.

mmmm... seirawan is a native english speaker, wtf u talking about?

I love Seirawan, but you gonna have to have a look on Ben Finegold.

@Mark Richardson Nope. He's American from Seattle. A nice little kid too. I remember him, though he has no reason to remember me.

A model sadly neglected by so many more recent immigrants to the Anglo-Saxon countries.

4 yrs gone by and no one replied! Probably the funniest comment ever!!

HA!

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The Dardans

+jason engler lmao

+jason engler It is this grand master called Maxim Dlugy.

Mike "Heavy" Kummer is a good guy! Don't rag on the heavy kummer.

grandmaster ken west perhaps?

Actually, they hired two chess experts: Rufus and Dufus...

Link? I've searched and can't find that.

I think game 6 is a little overrated. Spassky wasn't at his best in that game. In my opinion, game 13 was best game of the match. In that game, Fischer resurrected the Alekhine Defense. Botvinnik called it Fischer's greatest achievement at Reykjavik. Bronstein commented: "Out of the entire match, I find the 13th game the most attractive...like a mysterious sphinx, it teases my imagination."

Lbv PrasadBobby Fischer is still alive

i've never seen such a graphic rhetorical rimjob ... Bobby Fischer was a great talent, but still human, and certainly no saint.

Game 1 is not that poison pawn game you are talking about. It is the next game Fisher is going to loose, I believe game 5 or 6.

I believe it's called chess base. It's not free though. There should be free chess databases of historical games though (just a guess)

Matt So

Then check your stockfish again.

+Rec Jack You should know that even a powerful engine needs some time to accurately analyse some positions. Give it at least 5-10 minutes.

+Dan Kelly Maybe even then engines struggle in more than 7-piece endings. There is no database (like Nalimov or similar) awailable. This makes it harder for even the strongest engine to evaluate a position correctly. There strong GMs are much better. Because they know the strategic goals of the endgames! (Stockfish is the strongest engine for free - only Komodo is a little stronger.)

MusikPiratCH Yes but most positions don't require special positional understanding for the engine to choose the best move(s).

Dan Kelly You're completely right. GM Larry Kaufman (responsible for the chess knowledge of Komodo) pointed out two weaknesses of even the strongest engines: 1. very calm strategic positions or openings and 2. endgames where the engines cannot simply find a combination that leads to one of the tablebases they use. That's very important to know if you rely on engines! ;)

Agree

MrsCarebearXX

Paranoia

+patapon646 wasn't it Schizophrenia? and later death?

not sure. no proper diagnosis

He didn't have schizophrene (can't spell it), but many believe he had Paranoia.

Bobby Fischer had unusual childhood. When asked about his father his eyes glaze over, and he can barely stutter a reply. (Friends said it could take him a couple of days to recover.) His mother married a German scientist before WW2, and they then lived in Moscow (both being Communists). With War looking immanent, they made arrangements to return to US. However, her husband was not allowed entry into US because he had fought with Communists against Franco in Spanish Civil War. Bobby's real father was a Hungarian scientist who had moved to US. He did not live with them, but visited Bobby quite regularly. However he was concerned about Bobby as being neglected, even reporting to child welfare agencies that Bobby was not being given enough to eat. His father died when Bobby was 11 years old. When Bobby became US Chess Champion at 14 years old, he and his mother could not live together and soon afterwards he was living alone in a disorderly apartment. His mother was still active in politics, and the FBI would periodically check on them. His mother had taught him to answer:"I have nothing to say." He experienced organisers who would change conditions of some Tournaments he played in, breaking Contracts they had made (at age of 15 years). It is easy to see why he became suspicious of people's motives and paranoid. When he was jailed in Japan for about 10 months, Boris Spassky wrote to George W. Bush asking him to show Bobby "some mercy". If not Spassky suggested that he should be jailed also -- they would have been happy together with a Chess Set!