Celebration in The Swimming Pool | Spassky vs Fischer | (1972) | Game 5

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[@JJ-kl7eq]

Bobby would have spent longer in the swimming pool if it was an 1/8th of an an inch smaller.

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Forgive me but I don't get it, explain?

[@JJ-kl7eq]

About 6:55 Bobby’s 14 demands to the Icelandic Chess Federation.

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@@nothisispatrick6832 It's about Fischer complaint about the size of the chess board squares they were playing on, he wanted?! them a 1/8" smaller.

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at around 6:55

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“Y u do dis Spassky?”

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Lmao i just posted the same thing after hearing that but upon further inspection it seems although you beat me to it lol

[@tan116A]

Haha. I noticed this too. But actually he spoke so fast that the "do" in "Why 'do' you do this Spassky?" totally got captured.

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Damn, I missed this comment and then literally typed the same exact comment... Beat me to it. I also found that part funny, though.

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[@SelfReflective]

Karpov was out of line calling Spassky lazy. Remember, Spassky did something incredible; in 1966 he won the right to challenge the world champion for the title, a feat only very, very few players ever manage. And than he lost that match. That must have been heartbreaking, to have traveled so far and then failed at the last obstacle. But then, 3 years later, he again beat all his opponents to challenge the champion again. To find inspiration after the failure and to be able to train and work so hard to reach what had eluded you before is not a characteristic of a lazy man. So, in 1969 he became World champion, beating Petrossian by modifying his game and approach. Sure, some fire went out of him once he reached the chess Olymp and the motivation was not there to dedicate all his life to chess. But lazy? You don't become a champ by being lazy. Fischer himself had said that Spassky was the best player on his road to the top in 1972.

[@ferrishthefish]

Iirc, Spassky described _himself_ as "lazy like a bear." Granted, that's probably some Russian idiom, but Spassky's match prep is still a stark contrast with Fischer who carried around a book of hundreds of Spassky games and studied it at every available moment.

[@dahshkeeNYer]

There's an old Russian saying: "The crown weighs heavy on the Czar." Spassky said that that was what it was like for him as champion. Once he got the crown it was too hard to hold onto. But, here is where I'll agree with Karpov--compared to Fischer, he WAS lazy, but then, you could say the same about all players in history, except maybe Alekhine and Kasparov. Compared to Fischer, we are all lazy.

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SelfReflective, He didn't become champ by being lazy; he became champ, and then became lazy.

[@GunfireSerenade]

squealer right? Haven’t they watched rocky III? You need to have the eye of the tiger to become the champ and it’s hard to keep it when you are the champ.

[@SelfReflective]

squealer Ok, but read the quote from Karpov. That's what i was referring too. I do think that our personalities, once developed, don't change that much. Once lazy, always lazy...he did lose motivation, which is understandable, what's the point of going for something you've already achieved?

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As my knowledge continues to be vaster or more vast it kind of occurred to me that it seemed like Spassky and his games were being analyzed to death. It’s like a boxer during a prize fight with multiple people in his corner all shouting instructions and directions at the same time. It’s possible that Boris was not lazy but just tuning out the second guessers. Geez I mean he is world champion so he must know what needs to be done. In the other corner Fischer is reserving some pool time and I heard he played some tennis as well. Quiet versus chaos, calm versus tension. Just a thought as I am trying so hard to be an excellent subscriber. Top notch analysis as usual !

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Having regularly been around a crowd of Russians commenting on my exhibition games as they are in progress, there is something to this. They were frequently wrong, and I learnt to tune them out.

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But what about not showing up to train?

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Yes you are correct about the training part. After reading the additional content provided by Agad this match was a cyclone of uncertainty, confusion ,misinformation, ups , downs I mean holy cow how did they ever finish this thing! I had no idea how bizarre this turned out to be. But from catastrophe comes artistry for the ages. I feel blessed to have found this fountain of information that takes me back 46 years to a happening in the USA that took over the newspapers, magazines and television. I remember Ali and Jack Nicklaus and the great weightlifter Vasily Alekseyev around this same time. When you see greatness you tend to remember.

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They were both hard working players, Fischer has been noted to reference games that no one has thought to look. As Garry Kasparov said, people who are smart also work hard.

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I would very much like that, during the coverage of the game 6 Spassky x Fischer, you mention the fact Spassky stood up and aplauded Fischer's briliancy in the game known as "The Synfony of Placid Beauty". In my opinion this was the greatest moment in chess history. It shows how much Spassky is a real sportsmen and, above all, a great human being. It has to be remenbered that it was the times of the Cold War and as is well know the atmosphere wasnt all calm for a soviet world champion to confront an American genius. Nevertheless, Spassky succed in demonstrate what was really important among all external tensions: The Art of playing chess. Definietly, a gesture to be properly remembered for the benefit of the new generations. Thanks. P.S. #suggestion "The Uruguayan Immortal". (Uruguayan Championship, 1943 B. Molinari x Luis Roux Cabral)

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[@cattycats4]

Clearly Fischers thoroughness with his chess preparation was akin to a true perfectionist, thinking about all the different possibilities he can. And it seems chess really was his superego, so when it came to making decisions regarding demands and changes he thought would make sense, he was every bit as thorough as he was calculating chess moves... Clearly he held the world championships in very high regards, and thus deemed it logical that the competitors should be able to make crazy demands like kings and rockstars to accomplish the reflection of the world championships being very special indeed. Unfortunately the rest of the world didnt quite see it that way, and also didnt quite see the depth in chess that Bobby did, but he absolutely did make that idea closer to reality by ... not being timid :-D Chess benefitted in the long run. Give a competitive man an inch and he will try to take a mile, give Bobby some demands and he will make more but this time he is pushing for the win... xD

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My last comment referred to game 5 of course. During the match, Shelby Lyman was able to communicate directly with Mikhail Tal, who would give Lyman his views of the position. Lyman was very respectful of Tal and very excited to have him get involved in analyzing the games.

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What clock times were these games played under. Was it the modern 100/50/15 format ?

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thanks for all the background info about the game and the players i never knew before i think fischers demands were intended to distract the russians and throw spassky off his game like trying to psyche out an opponent in any sport and gain an edge psychologicaly

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I saw the whole match on public tv, narrated by Shelby Lyman. Master Bruce Pandalfini was a guest most of the time. Lyman went wild every time Fischer made a move and he almost lost his mind after Fischer played Bishop takes pawn to finish off this game.

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