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.
Was a college student helping bring food supplies to Central Luzon which had become one big lake. The super typhoon returned THREE times to the area in a span of ABT twenty days. 12:28 Hoping to ride a US copter but used a boat instead. The smell of NUTRIBUNS. And joy of following Fischer-Spassky in a newspaper worth less than 25 centavos (it was a trap Marcos and his cronies sprung on the Pinoys with martial law coming soon thereafter.
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.
We were camping in Yellowstone. No contact. After game days one of us would hike out 2 miles, drive and bring back a newspaper with the results and replay the previous day’s game. Bobby Fischer had various demands. He elevated chess, and delivered.
Ice hockey gigantic??? Not true! Canada have 650000 hockey players today! Russia have only under 100000 hockey players today! USA have 500000 hockey players today! Canada and USA should have 11 players who have scored over 800 goals like Ovechkin today! Football( Soccer) have 250 million players vs Canada 650000 players that means The Soccer All Stars would beat Orr Gretzky Lemieux easily 100 game Series 93-7! Football(Soccer) have 4 billion fans around the world! Cricket 2,5 billion fans around the world! Only hockey player ever had fans was Russian Kharlamov 225 million fans in Former Soviet Union in 1970s!!
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.
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.
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
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.
Players forget how great Spassky was. Apart from Carlsen, I would bet Spassky could hold his own and even beat any player alive today (in classical chess) Kasparov and Karpov both respected his tactics immensely.
Spassky was one of the great talents in the history of the game. In my opinion, his run to the supreme title between 1964 and 1969 was even more impressive than Fischer’s one between 1970 and 1972: he demolished Keres, Geller (twice), Tahl, Larsen and Korchnoi, only being defeated by Petrosian in WCh 1966. And those five, with the exception of Bobby, were the best players of tat decade
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.
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.
When it looked like Bobby Fischer might pull out of the tournament Secretary of State Henry Kissinger called him. It is thought that Kissinger urged him to continue playing.
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.
It was a great endgame. Imho, the people here talking about the "many errors" or "low level" without giving examples and naming the moves are simply low rated players not understanding what's going on here.
Love this format. Quick and has me guessing throughout! I always sucked at chess. Watching these 2 battle it out only confirms my minuscule knowledge of the game! But sometimes ignorance is bliss! 😅
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.)
I also found it interesting that Fischer refused to come out and play the second game. He definitely was eccentric, but that seemed to be intertwined with his brilliance
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.
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.
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!
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.
The John McEnroe of Chess! (or vis versa) I remember watching the games on tv in Copenhagen while visiting my dad. With a couple of flatmates, we played out the games as they came out in the newspaper. Sometimes genius comes with unconventional conduct, ultimately good for the sport.
"Sometimes genius comes with unconventional conduct" I would say "Often". Many genius's who mastered the skills of a discipline, (usually because that is all they do and have a lot of dedication/drive), fall on their faces with opinions/ideas outside of their discipline. Fischer certainty was no exception. Unfortunate, how a genius can be so foolish.
@@tontonbeber4555 if that was true, Fischer wouldn't have needed so many moves to win. It was a quite equal game, material wise the difference was three pawns against a bishop, and some observers here complained they couldn't understand why Spassky even resigned.
@@ulrikof.2486 Well, what I can say ... - I am myself regularly around 1800-1850 elo - I would have been beaten very easily by Fischer in this game - I would have beaten Spassky very easily in this game (who clearly counterperformed and played far below his real level) So there is only one conclusion ... this was a very one-way game, and this game is certainly not very interesting. "some observers here complained they couldn't understand why Spassky even resigned" you said ... well ... Spassky knew he was not in a good mood that day ...
@@tontonbeber4555 when Spassky resigned, the position was totally lost for him. A 1800 player should be capable to see that. And many other claims that Spassky blundered here and there or that Fischer could have won much earlier by the move a1Q show, that the critics here are overestimating themselves very much. Usually, if you are an 1800, and you see a 2600 making a seemingly bad move (and it's not blitz or bullet), your first thought should be "what am I missing here".
I don't think Spasky thought he could stop the promotion of the last 3 of Fischer's pawns. Not sure. Yea, would be nice to know. I guess they save face by quitting "over our heads". :)
Look a move or so more. It turned into a queen trade. That actually simplifies the game a bit,--to give the communist (seemingly against Spasky's will), a chance. :)
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🙊😊😻💕🎉🎂.
I agree with you but after thinking about it let me try to explain. Now it's the time of Spassky to play, and he can't move the white rook vertically or else he will lose the bishop, he can't eat the pawn with the king or else Fisher will have a queen. He can't remove the bishop from that position or else the black rook will check the king and Fisher will make a queen eventualy. So he can only move his white rook horizontally, if he does that he will free Fisher's king to move away from the front of his pawn to make a queen, so the rook can only go to the column of the pawn, by doing that Fisher has only one alternative and it's to eat the bishop with his black rook, which will make Spassky have to eat the black rook with his rook, other scenarios he loses and Fisher makes a queen or two. Then Fisher goes to E2 with his king. Now the only two scenarios is Spassky checking the king with the rook or again going to the column of the black pawn so he doesn't make a queen, if he chooses the column Fisher makes the queen anyway and eats his rook afterwards, then the other king can't make anything until Fisher's king arrive and he makes a queen. If he checks, again, same scenario, Fisher goes with his king to F3 and Spassky can't prevent the queen to be done. Fisher wins in all scenarios, the worst of them all being Fisher having a Queen and a King and Spassky only a King, that means check-mate eventually.
@@BogusLion Still, it is quitting IMO. Done at a time when 90% of the viewers can't figure out why, to save embarrassment? Now remember the last move Fischer did in game one, (trapped his bishop, lost the game). Good thing Spasky did not resign or agree to draw. IMO, they are just "saving face". But once in a while, it would be worth it to play until the King falls,----which is the objective of the game. Every game is like Vietnam and many other humanity killing wars we do. Pulling out early before the job is done. Both are, a heck of a show that is difficult to explain and understand.
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.
Would not be a good trade, imho, as the bishop had multiple functions (defending two own pawns, and reigning the diagonal where a black free pawn wanted to promote) while the black rook was quite limited at that time.
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 ?
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
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.
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 ?
@@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.
Arpad Elo tough wrongly that the chess rating average is 1400 and standard devotion SD=282,8 The correct numbers are the chess rating average is 1650 and SD=256 correct numbers we need 10000 players and best is 2600! We need 100000 players and the best is 2720! In Hungary they have 100000 chess players! Arpard Elo numbers gives wrongly that 1000000 players and best is 2582! In Hungary number 9th is 2582! Hungary's best is 2760! The chess metrics founder The stanford honor Jeff Sonas was using wrong standard devotion SD=166 Stanford is ranked number 3rd best mathematics university in the world! Really Shocking! How Arpad Elo got this wrong SD=282,8 so we get 200x200+200x200=80000 and square root 80000=282,8 Really Stupid Arpad Elo!!
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.
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.
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.
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 🇺🇸🦈 😅
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.
I still don’t understand the queen-bishop sacrifice in the middle game
Good. Maybe you know which game this is. lol Are you sure the memories came back from this game? :)
I'll bet you're a good player now!
Why didn't Bobby go for the "jugular vein" sooner, instead of "toying" with Boris? I guess I must be more of an amateur than I thought.
Was a college student helping bring food supplies to Central Luzon which had become one big lake. The super typhoon returned THREE times to the area in a span of ABT twenty days. 12:28 Hoping to ride a US copter but used a boat instead. The smell of NUTRIBUNS. And joy of following Fischer-Spassky in a newspaper worth less than 25 centavos (it was a trap Marcos and his cronies sprung on the Pinoys with martial law coming soon thereafter.
Perfect speed to watch and enjoy the game...... more........
Nope. You need to pause after each move and look at all of the possibilities. This was not a blitz game.
You can also change video playback speed in settings.
@@farleymusclewhite411🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 my enlightened brother spends 11 hours watching a 6 minute video (I watch on 2x speed) how cool and smart!
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Bloody noises of the moves. Crap
People today don't realize how HUGE this event was back in 1972....the whole world was watching this...
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.
Yes! I was a seven years old in Colombia and I remember my uncles following the matches.
SO it was like Pokemon Go?
The Cold War Games
We were camping in Yellowstone. No contact. After game days one of us would hike out 2 miles, drive and bring back a newspaper with the results and replay the previous day’s game. Bobby Fischer had various demands. He elevated chess, and delivered.
So many gigantic internationa competitions going on in '72. Summit Series in hockey, chess championship, Olympics. What a year.
Ice hockey gigantic??? Not true! Canada have 650000 hockey players today! Russia have only under 100000 hockey players today! USA have 500000 hockey players today! Canada and USA should have 11 players who have scored over 800 goals like Ovechkin today! Football( Soccer) have 250 million players vs Canada 650000 players that means The Soccer All Stars would beat Orr Gretzky Lemieux easily 100 game Series 93-7! Football(Soccer) have 4 billion fans around the world! Cricket 2,5 billion fans around the world! Only hockey player ever had fans was Russian Kharlamov 225 million fans in Former Soviet Union in 1970s!!
irelevnt comparisons.
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.
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.
Counter play can turn the tide.
R.I.P. Bobby. You were/are the greatest.
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!!
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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
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.
Players forget how great Spassky was. Apart from Carlsen, I would bet Spassky could hold his own and even beat any player alive today (in classical chess) Kasparov and Karpov both respected his tactics immensely.
Spassky was one of the great talents in the history of the game. In my opinion, his run to the supreme title between 1964 and 1969 was even more impressive than Fischer’s one between 1970 and 1972: he demolished Keres, Geller (twice), Tahl, Larsen and Korchnoi, only being defeated by Petrosian in WCh 1966. And those five, with the exception of Bobby, were the best players of tat decade
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.
“Sheer Innovation”, that is what Fischer is all about.
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
@@mehrdadsalimiclassicalpersianvy porqué NO TUVO EL VALOR de defender su título.
Qué clase de campeón es aquel que no defiende su título? 🤔
I don’t know French language. Let’s both talk in an international language, so that we could communicate.
@@mehrdadsalimiclassicalpersianv It's Spanish lmao.
DAMN! I was nervous just watching this. I can imagine how Spassky must've felt.
He should have played chess in fact ... may be digestion disease that day ? Never saw a GM playing so poorly ...
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.
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.
Well said. I call them the Cold War Games.
When it looked like Bobby Fischer might pull out of the tournament Secretary of State Henry Kissinger called him. It is thought that Kissinger urged him to continue playing.
Gone over several times. So much to see and enjoy.
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.
Ficher is like a commander who fully trust his soldiers, and always keen to advance them for a promotion.
great game. Fisher got so many of spasky pawns yet spasky was almost able to come back
Fischer was like, "Take my pawns again TAKE... MY PAWNS... AGAIN. I dare you! I double dare you, MF'er! Take my pawn one more GD time."
Great game ?? I would say complete failure from Spassky.
Lot of Errors both sides! That is why this not one of the greatest end games!!
It was a great endgame. Imho, the people here talking about the "many errors" or "low level" without giving examples and naming the moves are simply low rated players not understanding what's going on here.
@@ulrikof.2486 me watch again! Long time no watch
Love this format. Quick and has me guessing throughout! I always sucked at chess. Watching these 2 battle it out only confirms my minuscule knowledge of the game! But sometimes ignorance is bliss! 😅
Wat a battle, Bobby Fisher is 1 of my Favorite Chess ♟️ player of all times! Thanks for the videos nakama friend Shalum!
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.)
@@tontonbeber4555 You must be thankful that you can comment on such a great chess match, even though you've never known how to play chess.
@@Asdfgadv33423 I admire Fisher as a great player, but that day it's more Spassky who lost the game, so many blunders ...
Why can't you people get his name right ? "Fischer " for Heavens Sake !!!
This channel is golden. Cant mannage all that talking on other channels tbh
Overwhelming brilliance!
Spassky overlooked the winning move, BxR. He could get the rook to A1 to prevent Fisher from queening.
I don't think so. When was this possible?
I also found it interesting that Fischer refused to come out and play the second game. He definitely was eccentric, but that seemed to be intertwined with his brilliance
Can someone please explain how it ends? Why he resigned? Is the loss inevitable?
Black is close to getting 2 pawns exchanged for a queen, with support from the rook up top.
From me view it looks like he can still take the two pawns and remain with the advantage of the bishop rook combination
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.
Bxf2, Rd1 (threatening a1Q)
Re1+ (only move to avoid a1Q), Rxe1,
Bxe1 (or Bd4, also loses, though), Kxe1
and as the white king cannot do Kxb3 follows
Ka1, Kd1
Kb2, Kd2
Kb1, a1Q+
Kxa1, Kc3
Kb1 (only move), b2
Ka2 (only move), Kc2
Ka3 (only move), b1Q
or
Rf4, Rxd4
Rxd4, Ke2,
Rf4 (Re4+? Kf3!), f1Q
Rxf1, Kxf1
and the rest follows the logic shown above.
There are two main lines, imho: Bxf2 and Rf4:
1 Bxf2 Rd1 (threatening a1Q+)
2 Re1+ Rxe1
3 Bxe1 Kxe1
Black now wins:
4.1 Kxb3? a1Q! or
4.2 Ka1 Kd2
5.2 Kb2 a1Q+
6.2 Kxa1 Kc3
7.2 Kb1 b2
8.2 Ka2 Kc2
9.2 Ka3 b1Q
1 Rf4 Rxd4
2 Rxd4 Ke2
3.1 Re4? Kf3 (winning the queen) or
3.2 Rf4 f1Q
4.2 Rxf1 Kxf1
Black now wins:
5.2.1 Kb3? a1Q! or
5.2.2 Ka1 Ke1
6.2.2 Kb2 Kd1
7.2.2 Ka1 Kd2
8.2.2 Kb2 a1Q+
9 - 12 = same as 6 - 9 above).
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.
The greatest chess player of ALL TIME and you're spelling his name wrong ! ... it's FISCHER !! There is no Fisher in chess.
No player is the best player of all time.
Whos saying its FISHER??
He way but now it's Magnus, he will never be surpassed.
Scroll to the top of your screen and search ‘Magnus chess.’ Enjoy.
Rh8 was a crippling move that was missed
Started playing chess 3 months ago and knew how to move the pieces before. This guy with his family's name, he just reals them in
So, you have been unemployed for over 3 months now? :)
Great, fantastic and immortal Bobby Fischer!!! Respect forever!!!! 👍👍👍
My gawd, he just toyed with him for fun, he had him 20 moves earlier
Classic 13th game of this match
No, it wasn't. Fischer acted like an ass and was a disgrace. The Russian played with dignity and honor.
Ah---an impartial observer.
This fischer guy seems pretty good.
WAS !
Even after the game spasky looked at the board not believing he ha a rook tied up by the pawn and bishop.
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Apparently, Fischer would announce "mate" in 21 moves and it would be accomplished, much to the chagrin of the player sitting in front of him
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!
I don’t get why Spassky resigned
Yeah, good question.
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.
@@hn285 King to A3.....
@@jeff-9608can’t stop the pawns
@@AImeriia ah, yes. Gotcha👍
The John McEnroe of Chess! (or vis versa)
I remember watching the games on tv in Copenhagen while visiting my dad.
With a couple of flatmates, we played out the games as they came out in the newspaper.
Sometimes genius comes with unconventional conduct, ultimately good for the sport.
"Sometimes genius comes with unconventional conduct" I would say "Often". Many genius's who mastered the skills of a discipline, (usually because that is all they do and have a lot of dedication/drive), fall on their faces with opinions/ideas outside of their discipline. Fischer certainty was no exception. Unfortunate, how a genius can be so foolish.
Spassky had the chance to win.
If he'd played chess maybe, but I don't now what he did ... just pushing wood ... 1600 ? 1800 ELO is a maximum of his level in this game.
@@tontonbeber4555 if that was true, Fischer wouldn't have needed so many moves to win. It was a quite equal game, material wise the difference was three pawns against a bishop, and some observers here complained they couldn't understand why Spassky even resigned.
@@ulrikof.2486 Well, what I can say ...
- I am myself regularly around 1800-1850 elo
- I would have been beaten very easily by Fischer in this game
- I would have beaten Spassky very easily in this game (who clearly counterperformed and played far below his real level)
So there is only one conclusion ... this was a very one-way game, and this game is certainly not very interesting.
"some observers here complained they couldn't understand why Spassky even resigned" you said ... well ... Spassky knew he was not in a good mood that day ...
@@tontonbeber4555 when Spassky resigned, the position was totally lost for him. A 1800 player should be capable to see that. And many other claims that Spassky blundered here and there or that Fischer could have won much earlier by the move a1Q show, that the critics here are overestimating themselves very much. Usually, if you are an 1800, and you see a 2600 making a seemingly bad move (and it's not blitz or bullet), your first thought should be "what am I missing here".
What a fun game
Thank you
Which match/game was this one?
I am too lazy to look it up.
We should not have to look it up, if the poster were intelligent enough to put the information here. This is "progress"? Really?
What are the next moves that force a win? Would be nice to know that
I don't think Spasky thought he could stop the promotion of the last 3 of Fischer's pawns. Not sure. Yea, would be nice to know. I guess they save face by quitting "over our heads". :)
Greatest off all time
Don’t get Fischer’s Queen sacrifice at 10:25. Am a novice but can anyone enlighten me?
Was it a (horrors) a blunder? Can’t believe that.
Look a move or so more. It turned into a queen trade. That actually simplifies the game a bit,--to give the communist (seemingly against Spasky's will), a chance. :)
There was no sacrifice, it was a queens' exchange.
monster genius
Maravillosa partida, para la que no transcurre el tiempo
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🙊😊😻💕🎉🎂.
@@ricardodogfishtiger8582 nice story! Good luck in your future tournaments!
didn't get 90% of the moves, this is the time i realized chess is not for me.😊
Don't take this game as an example, it's no great game, completely asymmetrical. Fischer was the only chess player on this board.
5:32 why he didnt take H8 ??
Mis gibi 2 kale ve fille göbeği tutmuş neden dagıtsın? Hem vezir olmaya 2 kare kalmış can sıkan piyon da var korumada
Maybe the bishop position is too important to lose…
Bishop had multiple functions, was more valuable than the rook.
Adverts in 12minute game,you absolute Heathens
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It really is a disappointment when the game is not completed. When a player resigns, there should be an explanation of why.
I agree with you but after thinking about it let me try to explain. Now it's the time of Spassky to play, and he can't move the white rook vertically or else he will lose the bishop, he can't eat the pawn with the king or else Fisher will have a queen. He can't remove the bishop from that position or else the black rook will check the king and Fisher will make a queen eventualy. So he can only move his white rook horizontally, if he does that he will free Fisher's king to move away from the front of his pawn to make a queen, so the rook can only go to the column of the pawn, by doing that Fisher has only one alternative and it's to eat the bishop with his black rook, which will make Spassky have to eat the black rook with his rook, other scenarios he loses and Fisher makes a queen or two. Then Fisher goes to E2 with his king. Now the only two scenarios is Spassky checking the king with the rook or again going to the column of the black pawn so he doesn't make a queen, if he chooses the column Fisher makes the queen anyway and eats his rook afterwards, then the other king can't make anything until Fisher's king arrive and he makes a queen. If he checks, again, same scenario, Fisher goes with his king to F3 and Spassky can't prevent the queen to be done. Fisher wins in all scenarios, the worst of them all being Fisher having a Queen and a King and Spassky only a King, that means check-mate eventually.
@@BogusLion Still, it is quitting IMO. Done at a time when 90% of the viewers can't figure out why, to save embarrassment? Now remember the last move Fischer did in game one, (trapped his bishop, lost the game). Good thing Spasky did not resign or agree to draw. IMO, they are just "saving face". But once in a while, it would be worth it to play until the King falls,----which is the objective of the game. Every game is like Vietnam and many other humanity killing wars we do. Pulling out early before the job is done. Both are, a heck of a show that is difficult to explain and understand.
There are two main lines, imho: Bxf2 and Rf4:
1 Bxf2 Rd1 (threatening a1Q+)
2 Re1+ Rxe1
3 Bxe1 Kxe1
Black now wins:
4.1 Kxb3? a1Q! or
4.2 Ka1 Kd2
5.2 Kb2 a1Q+
6.2 Kxa1 Kc3
7.2 Kb1 b2
8.2 Ka2 Kc2
9.2 Ka3 b1Q
1 Rf4 Rxd4
2 Rxd4 Ke2
3.1 Re4? Kf3 (winning the queen) or
3.2 Rf4 f1Q
4.2 Rxf1 Kxf1
Black now wins:
5.2.1 Kb3? a1Q! or
5.2.2 Ka1 Ke1
6.2.2 Kb2 Kd1
7.2.2 Ka1 Kd2
8.2.2 Kb2 a1Q+
9 - 12 = same as 6 - 9 above).
The Fischer King !
Why didn’t he take the rook on h8 with the bishop? Can someone explain?
Wondering the same myself
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.
Perhaps the bishop from f6 supports the passed d pawn promotion an is therefore stronger than a rook.
Why didn't Boris take the rook at H8 from E5 at 5:32
IMO, it would have been a good trade most likely. But I think he was more interested in promoting the pawn that the bishop was guarding.
Would not be a good trade, imho, as the bishop had multiple functions (defending two own pawns, and reigning the diagonal where a black free pawn wanted to promote) while the black rook was quite limited at that time.
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 ?
Rook D1-C1 allowing the king to move back to the D file was a bad move
Yes but the move of the bishop just after is even worst. Probably the worst move of all time in a world championship.
Knight a6 - c5 manőver was a bit underestimated by great Spassky
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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Este match fue arreglado. Estábamos en plena guerra fría. Por eso Spassky se exilió. Nadie lo acepta.
Not sure why he resigned; he was winning
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.
Are you STUPID???. He was dead lost!!!
There are two main lines, imho: Bxf2 and Rf4:
1 Bxf2 Rd1 (threatening a1Q+)
2 Re1+ Rxe1
3 Bxe1 Kxe1
Black now wins:
4.1 Kxb3? a1Q! or
4.2 Ka1 Kd2
5.2 Kb2 a1Q+
6.2 Kxa1 Kc3
7.2 Kb1 b2
8.2 Ka2 Kc2
9.2 Ka3 b1Q
1 Rf4 Rxd4
2 Rxd4 Ke2
3.1 Re4? Kf3 (winning the queen) or
3.2 Rf4 f1Q
4.2 Rxf1 Kxf1
Black now wins:
5.2.1 Kb3? a1Q! or
5.2.2 Ka1 Ke1
6.2.2 Kb2 Kd1
7.2.2 Ka1 Kd2
8.2.2 Kb2 a1Q+
9 - 12 = same as 6 - 9 above).
Amazing game
I would want to play like bobby fischer❤
You would be a millionaire :)
Move 43, Fisher promotes the pawn and it's over. Then, Spaasky flubs on move 69 and 71.
Lol...queen at 46...but 20+ moves before "flub"....means it wasn't over at move 43.
Might want to choose words better
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 ?
It's not over, there's no checkmate. You belong to the bunch of bad players thinking they see what the best russian player of that time didn't.
❤for fisheer..❤for spassky
Rook, h1 to h8 by Boris at 10.45 would be interesting. Bob had no answer then
Una apertura de Bobby muy arraigada.
What's wrong with Spasky if he had put his rook on F4? White King protects against one promotion and the rook will protect against the other one
What timestamp?
Why not Kxb3 at the end instead of resign?
Rook takes bishop...then pawn promotes to queen. Game over!
@@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.
@@tjmozdzen yes, rook takes bishop first (removing the defender), then a1=queen .
I know less than the minimum about the game but what are the numbers next to the name? Some sort of tournament “ID”?
FIDE rating
@@alcoffey-p1r that’s helpful 🤦🏻♂️
Arpad Elo tough wrongly that the chess rating average is 1400 and standard devotion SD=282,8 The correct numbers are the chess rating average is 1650 and SD=256 correct numbers we need 10000 players and best is 2600! We need 100000 players and the best is 2720! In Hungary they have 100000 chess players! Arpard Elo numbers gives wrongly that 1000000 players and best is 2582! In Hungary number 9th is 2582! Hungary's best is 2760! The chess metrics founder The stanford honor Jeff Sonas was using wrong standard devotion SD=166 Stanford is ranked number 3rd best mathematics university in the world! Really Shocking! How Arpad Elo got this wrong SD=282,8 so we get 200x200+200x200=80000 and square root 80000=282,8 Really Stupid Arpad Elo!!
Elo his numbers gives 100000 players and best 2582!!
Interesante..!
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.
Hmmm. I have never seen that with math before. I can't add it up. :)
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I must have said "wow" about 25 times watching this game.
Isn’t this game 13?
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Спасский не увидел победу!Надо было шаховать ладьёй,потом забрать ладью Фишера и делов-то?
Why did spasky did not take rook? I could not find out the line.
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.
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.
Sure,Bobby defeated Boris, but Boris had way cooler hair.
Rookie move by Spassky at 5:19>>> free bishop
WHAT free bishop??? Are you BLIND?
Bobby Fischer ❤❤❤
neo piece set on icy sea board:)
RxBd4 Rxd4 - Ke2
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
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7.43 pawn promote to queen rook takes queen rook takes rook checkmate?
no:
a1Q Red4+
K... Bxa1
10:44 what if Spassky played Rh8 here ?
Pawn to c3
Me elo 850 demands full game😡
Move 43, Fisher promotes the pawn and it's over. 10:41
No.
It's not.
Spassy ,doesn't seem too smart. I would have matched my pawn straight away. At the beginning of the game I would have protected my pawn.
He was the best communism could train. Fischer beat communism, all by himself, made it look easy. Individualism baby! :)
I guess he was way smarter than you are.
Spasky played.like a rookie several movements
6:34 Can some explain why Spassky can’t take the Rook with his Bishop?? It’s been hanging for a few moves
At 6:34 white was IN CHECK, that's why it pushed that pawn.
Boby checked his king
He was in check by Rook
I'm not very good at chess to begin with. Little better than an amateur. But my endgame is terrible.
Bobby win in this game!
Why resign?
Too may pass pawns on bobby side..bobby was all the way outta control
Because it‘s over.
@@chrishimmelmann Not an explanation.
There are two main lines, imho: Bxf2 and Rf4:
1 Bxf2 Rd1 (threatening a1Q+)
2 Re1+ Rxe1
3 Bxe1 Kxe1
Black now wins:
4.1 Kxb3? a1Q! or
4.2 Ka1 Kd2
5.2 Kb2 a1Q+
6.2 Kxa1 Kc3
7.2 Kb1 b2
8.2 Ka2 Kc2
9.2 Ka3 b1Q
1 Rf4 Rxd4
2 Rxd4 Ke2
3.1 Re4? Kf3 (winning the queen) or
3.2 Rf4 f1Q
4.2 Rxf1 Kxf1
Black now wins:
5.2.1 Kb3? a1Q! or
5.2.2 Ka1 Ke1
6.2.2 Kb2 Kd1
7.2.2 Ka1 Kd2
8.2.2 Kb2 a1Q+
9 - 12 = same as 6 - 9 above).
@@xtbum3339Suggest a move for Spassky.
11:11 Rc3+ (instead of Rd1+) would have saved the game.
11:11...rc3 to black king d3 to e2….pawn on f file unstoppable...pawn on g7 will be abandoned ....just resign as a pro...gg
Promote pawn @7:40 - check mate
Are you STUPID?? What mate????
No:
a1Q Red4+
K.... Bxa1
Is this the game that was adjourned and supposedly analyzed as a guaranteed draw by the Soviets