Vicious Sacrifices in the Closed Sicilian. Spassky vs Geller, 1968 Match, Game 6.
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2023
- The best game of the 1968 Candidates Quarterfinal Match between Boris Spassky and Efim Geller. Spassky had already played the Closed Sicilian in the previous rounds of the match, but Geller got better positions in those games. In this game, however, Spassky dramatically improved the variation and played ideal chess. While Geller's pieces were on the queenside, Spassky demolished Geller's kingside by means of vicious sacrifices, creating an attacking masterpiece.
1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 d6 3. g3 Nc6 4. Bg2 g6 5. d3 Bg7 6. f4 Nf6 7. Nf3 O-O 8. O-O Rb8 9. h3 b5 10. a3 a5 11. Be3 b4 12. axb4 axb4 13. Ne2 Bb7 14. b3 Ra8 15. Rc1 Ra2 16. g4 Qa8 17. Qe1 Qa6 18. Qf2 Na7 19. f5 Nb5 20. fxg6 hxg6 21. Ng5 Na3 22. Qh4 Rc8 23. Rxf6 exf6 24. Qh7+ Kf8 25. Nxf7 Rxc2 26. Bh6 Rxc1+ 27. Nxc1 Kxf7 28. Qxg7+ Ke8 29. g5 f5 30. Qxg6+ Kd7 31. Qf7+ Kc6 32. exf5+ 1-0
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I really appreciate the fact that you show us the works of the most forgotten player
Spassky played a total of 7 matches prior to playing Petrosian in 1969 for the second time for the Championship. He beat Tal, Keres, Geller, Korchnoi, and Larsen. I think all these matches made him invincably stronger so that the second time he played Petrosian he dispatched him with great play. He had learned how to present problems to his opponents that disrupted their style of play. FIDE should go back to match play to determine the Champ as it gives the challenger a chance to learn how to play in matches. Spassky's games are full of many learning oppourtunities. He played like Magnus before there was a Magnus. Show us more of his games please.
Thank you for your comment. I'm planning to make more videos on Spassky's games soon.
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Spassky deseves so much more than just being the dude Bobby Fischer beat.
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Hi. Thanks a lot for your suggestion, it makes perfect sense to me. However, I couldn't find how to do it on chessbase 12, which I'm using, I'm not sure if it's possible. I might try dragging pieces sometimes though, it might help. Thank you for your kind words, I also wish you all the best.
He should set off fireworks, too.
Spassky was a very strong player, but, but, but, this game was clearly arranged!! A normal attack for a grandmaster, when his soft opponent has conveniently put all his pieces on the quuenside, away from protecting the king. This is so obvious to a chess player, that black was too obviously just asking for it. Fischer told you so too that the Soviets did this, as is now widely known and admitted. This is a fine example of an arranged win for Spassky. Geller was a brilliant chess player too. But he did what he was told to do, as they all did to some extent, but possibly not Botvinnik. He complained a lot about this sort of thing!
I don't think this game was arranged. It was the third closed Sicilian in the match, and in the two previous games Geller got advantage after the opening. So Spassky prepared improvements for this game and it seems Geller wasn't ready for them.
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Lol. And how many games did Geller win ? None! Clearly a fix.
It doesn't make sense to me. There is no evidence that the match was arranged, to the best of my knowledge, no one ever claimed that it was. The score of the match was 5.5 - 2.5, so I think Spassky was in better shape. In his interview after the match Geller said, that he lost due to the lack of practice at that time, as he took part only in one small tournament before the match, while usually he played in lots of strong tournaments. For this reason he often got into time trouble and made blunders.
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You always need a credible cover story!
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I guess you could argue both ways. But it is well known that some players were favoured at times in Soviet circles. I will look more into it and see what I can find. But in the game mentioned black's play looks pure lunacy. Hence one can assume that there was one player being favoured. As such may have happened for Smyslov in 1953. It's well known when Soviet players had a draw between themselves. Korchnoi, Bronstein and Averbakh have openly talked about fixes in the past. I would like to believe that it was a fair match. Just looked too fishy to me. I'm happy to be wrong about it. After all, this was when Spassky was in his prime. So, in the balance, is a fair summation I think. 🤔