Match of the Century: Spassky vs Fischer Game 7

Bobby Fischer looks to continue is brilliance in Game 7 and extend his lead in the 1972 World Chess Championship. Spassky is looking to use the white pieces to battle back and tie the series up.

[@hkhjg1734]

Is there a sound more beautiful and soul stirring than Kevin form the chess website saying, "hey everyone, this is Kevin from the chess website."

[@xXjuanpablo1403Xx]

I don't think so haha I couldn't believe it when I got the notification

[@AAboardCo]

"Hi, this is Mato"

[@xXjuanpablo1403Xx]

+808 Cowbell hahaha I like both Kevin and Mato. I also watch Gunjan from "GJ_Chess" =)

[@xXjuanpablo1403Xx]

+Jesse Williams didn't know about him. Thanks. I'll take a look at his channel :) Dereque Kelly is a great chess youtuber as well

[@xXjuanpablo1403Xx]

So true! It's impressive how videos like these can improve your chess in such a great way. ^^

[@AhPhoey]

Kevin scolds both players and gives better moves for both that he would have played. I consider Kevin the true World Champion in 1972.

[@johnbongjoey5200]

Getting ready to really watch this here, nice little video

[@MemesForACause]

awesome voice nice to listen to

[@oxycodonetylenol5025]

I wish to see you on a camera You've taught a lot to me Thanks 😊

[@skios4778]

Been waiting for this!

[@Daniel982-d7z]

I love your videos :)

[@syyhkyrotta]

Thanks!

[@samuelbruyneel]

It seemed like Fischer was heading for the win, but towards the endgame he seemed to be satisfied with a draw, since he was playing with the black pieces, and he was ahead in the total score.

[@raimo3628]

been waiting on this

[@TheStupidLama]

I always hear "Buddy Spassky" and I have to think of "Buddy Jesus" from Dogma :'D

[@skyenguyen6676]

+awkward Alan that's the Russian pronunciation

[@ThatGuy-pv4dn]

it is Baris, actually

[@davincerica7232]

Buddy Spassky

[@singhbackONtrack]

nice, when is next game coming out from u of this match..number 8

[@msceaux7708]

this is great.

[@NickHiltermann]

thanks!

[@moda8509]

03:58 i think white could take d6 pawn with the knight and if queen takes then sacrifice the bishop with a discovery and take the black queen .. and if he didnt take the knight then thats a check preventing castling and taking the bishop with an open king

[@balazsvarga1221]

But after your bishop check he can just go king e7 defending his queen and you are down a knight

[@imaginationworld8699]

Mato jelic vs the chess website vs chess network vs king crusher Who will win

[@siLence-84]

mato wins because he will just talk throughout the games and his boring voice will put opponents to sleep and then they lose on time

[@ace942]

2 eye gamer - minecraft-chess and more not sure who would win but I would like to see Kevin win. Not that the other guys are bad or anything. I just like the way that Kevin explains the games.

[@highonfire1509]

what's wrong with using the King to fork the knight and rook at 11:45? that seems crushing to me

[@dionlindsay2]

A chess programme called Stockfish says white would be able to force a draw if black does that. The moves would be 42...Kf7 43.f5 Rxe8 44.Rd7+ Kf8 45.Rxf6+ Kg8 46.Rg6+ Kf8 47.Rf6+

[@Woltato]

Who's "Buddy Spassky", I've never heard of him?

[@KoolKyurem25]

I like things

[@dkizxpt-su3ze]

me too

[@siLence-84]

why the fuck did I just get a notification here ?

[@jeranimo111]

justin emery of a

[@bobomo1o]

finally

[@sandroid1133]

How many game did they play?

[@just8bit55]

12

[@sandroid1133]

+JUST 8BIT *games

[@just8bit55]

Sander Moltumyr sure

[@nickyam8474]

TrueJasonMoral - I heard it was 23...

[@bokkiedarko]

TrueJasonMoral 21 games

[@tacoadam4531]

At 11:33 whats wrong with kf7?

[@d_andrews]

I'm guessing f5, Rxe8, Rd7+ then some fancy rook work gives a good mating threat for white.

[@Synecdoche09]

Good question! I saw the line and wondered the same thing. My OTB analysis is that (I think) the over lying issue is that after 42. ...Kf7 43. f5 Rxe8 44. Rd7+ black cannot stop a perpetual.

[@tacoadam4531]

+Synecdoche09 Thanks for the analysis! Ill sit down with a board later and go through all variations. If I find anything intersting ill tell everyone.

[@siLence-84]

+Taco adam analyzed it yet?

[@mowargadzemetal]

After king F7 I wouldn't move my pawn to F5, because that way you just give up your knight. Instead of that, protect the rook with the knight: black king F7 white knight C7 Here you can see, that white rook will come to D7, which will make black pawn unprotected, so: black rook F8 white rook D7 black king either to G8 or G6 (doesn't really matter) white knight to E8 black can't do anything up there anymore, either just sacrifice rook for knight, but then he will have nothing to protect his king, and the two white rooks can play against the king easily, or he will just make another move, not concerning with what's going on up there, like stalemate with the king by using the C1 rook, or move that rook to A1, but at this point that move is kind of useless. Either way with the attack white has up against the black king, he will win.

[@KhemistryIBMOR]

I agree. Spassky played weakly in the beginning.

[@NathanWood23]

beat me by 12 secconds

[@BrandonAmbetsa]

Watch my First chess game

[@ApparitionGSX]

First

[@AlonsoRules]

Fischer just trolled the first 2 games just make spassky think he had the edge and he only won a single game after that

[@tommyod5236]

Downvote for spoilers! Some of us (me included!) don't actually know how the games turned out.

[@ahookom1]

What's the statue of limitations on spoiler alerts? Evidently more than 40 years? What did it spoil -- your ability to read a description of the same facts somewhere else?

[@tommyod5236]

It spoiled -- this series I was watching on KZbin. Of course I'm not about to look up the outcome elsewhere, because I'm following along with the series! Kevin is bloody good at making sure he doesn't give away outcomes for matches or tournaments. There is no "statute of limitations on spoiler alerts", there are only spoilers.

[@siLence-84]

+Andrew H statue? rofl

[@siLence-84]

+tommyod the fact is these games were played over 40 years ago and the outcome is widely known obviously because fischer became world champion. this was the most popular chess match to date and the most watched chess world championship ever. this was at the peak of the cold war so people everywhere viewed it as "America vs Russia". it's basically common knowledge for anyone into chess. can't really call this a spoiler.

[@BrianBrecker]

What a poor game from Fischer. Not impressed.

[@Bozothcow]

Buddy Spassky

[@BrandonAmbetsa]

Watch my First chess game