Massacre - Larsen vs Spassky | Match Soviet Union vs Rest of the World 1970 |

[@PowerPlayChess]

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[@PowerPlayChess]

I point out beautiful moments in these videos all the time... Does beauty matter in chess? For me, when I was playing, getting a 'one' on the score board was the most important thing; beauty was a bi-product. Sometimes I played a game that I thought was really beautiful, but it was hard to convince others! The satisfaction of winning trumped everything.

[@alexbowring7489]

Thanks for sharing Dan, I love this game. A reminder that Fischers somewhat forgotten opponent in that legendary WC match wasn't any old chess scrub but a truly brilliant player. At what point in this game had Spassky calculated until the end I wonder... by the time of the rook sac you would think he would have it all calculated out, but maybe as early as knight g4 he knows its game over. No doubt all the ideas were formed at the board as well... astonishing. Spassky was not just a brilliant player but - from the interviews i've seen, and in particular his conduct towards Fischer after the WC - a brilliant person. You've gone back to a great time in chess here, really looking forward to watching this narrative pan out!

[@hubertsang7418]

You are in luck. According to B. Cafferty "Spassky's 100 best games" these are the times per move, no time=almost instant. 1- b3 e5 2-Bb2 Nc6 3-c4 Nf6 4-Nf3 e4-1 5-Nd4-1 Bc5-4 6-NxNc6 dxNc6-1 7-e3-1 Bf5-4 8-Qc2-3 Qe2-1 9-Be2-5 0-0-0 4 10-f4-2 Ng4-4 11-g3-15 h5-18 12-h3-6 h4-6 13-hxNg4-53 h×g3-1 14-Rg1 Rh1-17 15-RxRh1-4 g2-3 16-Rf1-4 Qh4+-1 17-Kd1-1 g×Rf1+ Resigns. Larsen took 15 minutes to play g3, Spassky took 18 minutes to play h5, Larsen took 53 minutes to take the knight, Spassky took 17 minutes to move the rook to h1. After Spassky played h4, B.Cafferty and BH Wood were analysing the game with the BxNg4 variation but were not clear about a win, but had concluded that black should win. And with all honesty, both of them admitted that they did not find Spassky's coup de grace 14-.....Rh1 Because of all the excitement among the spectators in the playing hall, Spassky spent 17 minutes to recheck Rh1. I hope this is a good story for you.

[@EdMcF1]

Spassky has a 'Salieri/Mozart' comparison issue with Fischer, overshadowed despite his previous eminence. (And I'm not talking about the silly film portrayal).

[@askdubi]

Hands down the best chess channel on KZbin. Thank you, Mr. King.

[@AkashSingh-dr2hy]

Thanks GM Daniel king for the game

[@munhozjp]

Really loved the commentaries on chess history, that's quite an interesting addition for your videos. You should keep it!

[@DavidSchilter]

Oh Dan, that is beautiful. Thanks for sharing and for all the interesting historical context :)

[@florentietis]

Superb video! Very much enjoyed it, thank you!

[@hubertsang7418]

Enjoyed this analysis, the Ussr Team roster: Spassky, Petrossian, Korchnoi, Geller, Polugaevsky, Taimanov, Botvinnik, Tal, Smyslov, Keres, Stein, Bronstein. That was a very formidable line up.

[@johnkom2339]

Spassky is definitely one of the best attacking players after Tal, with some beautiful games. I like Cafferty's book. about him. Thanks for analyzing this game.

[@kojiattwood]

There's a gorgeous King's Gambit game by Spassky (against one of my all time favourite players, David Bronstein) that was the inspiration for the chess game in From Russia with Love. Would be fantastic to see your analysis of that.

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

Spassky Knight d6?? Queen e2 is better! After Knight d6 Bronstein played Really badly!!

[@kojiattwood]

@@RaineriHakkarainen 🤷‍♂🤷‍♀🤷

[@JeanPLugo]

Glad to see you want to make a series about Fischer and Spassky prior to their match. I would love to see some strategic games on the KID Saemisch by Spassky and some Positional games by Bobby Fischer during this period.

[@1seipai]

Excellent video. Thanks. Maybe we'll see some games from Fischer's thrashing of Larsen.

[@StepBaum]

Wow very interesting, how good of an attacker one can be

[@fixpontt]

how stupid opening one can choose

[@kaustavkundu6426]

Can you show us how Larsen fought back later in this tournament vs Spassky?

[@geonerd]

Love to see these old classic games! Can you please comment on one of Larson's many fine wins? Bent seems to suffer a certain level of anonymity, or worse, notoriety as "The guy that lost to the brilliant play of Tal / Spaski, Keres, etc." )

[@TheMattTempest]

Thanks - I love a Bent Larsen game, if he comes a cropper here, always willing to play outrageous chess. His appearances on the old BBC The Master Game, c.1980, 'live' commentating his own moves, are wonderful. So droll and Danish and dapper.

[@jprw]

Great video please cover the 1970 Siegen game between Spassky and Fischer!

[@samwamper9393]

Daniel, what about (@ 5:57) Qxe3, exchanging a queen and a pawn for a rook and a bishop? Wouldn’t that result in a better position for white?

[@samwamper9393]

I mean ‘better’ as in ‘possibly survivable’ not ‘objectively better’! 😂

[@rossgeller422]

it would be nice to cover tal versus najdorf games of this tourment

[@amitbharati8941]

No words for the attack. Lightning and boom. Just imagine how much preparation and confidence was required by Fischer to defeat magestic Spassky. Would love to see Spassky vs Fischer game -3. Fischer plays the Benoni and with split pawns. And game 5 with the nimzo indian from Fischer. And the star move bishop A4.

[@mwangikimani3970]

Fischer 's style was very different from Larsen's. He was much more positionally responsible player

[@PowerPlayChess]

All in good time. We are still in 1970...

[@thanasiskaravasilis2243]

The 13th game of the Spassky-Fischer match is one of Fischer's best games. It deserves an analysis for sure!

[@matrix31003]

I would love to see your analysis on Game 6 of the Fischer Spassky match

[@dougwuerth5499]

According to the book Bobby Fischer's Chess Games by Robert Wade, there are two GMs that had winning records against Fischer: Mikhail Tal (4-5-2), and Efim Geller (5-4-2), and Viktor Korchnoi (2-4-2)had an even record. What did these guys know about playing Bobby that no one else did? Geller is someone that we never hear about - he might be interesting! Thanks for your videos!

[@nyrfan]

A notable Geller win... Timman 0-1 Geller: 9th match game, Hilversum 1973 (D59 Tartakower Q's Gambit). Famous losses... Geller 0-1 Euwe: Candidates' Tournament, Zuerich 1953 (E28 Saemisch Nimzo-Indian) & Spassky 1-0 Geller: 6th game, Candidates QF match, Sukhumi 1968 (B25 Closed Sicilian).

[@miguellorenzo3726]

One of my favorite games

[@nilsp9426]

I have a déjà vu, but I don't know if it is from your channel. Somehow I could have sworn you covered it already. I guess I just have seen this game too often. This game looks like Topalovs worst day against Topalovs best day, if you would compare it to more recent players. He is the first one you would think of as a daring and brilliant attacker. But on his bad days his actions can look quite silly.

[@davidrogers1938]

I would love to see an analysis of Fischer's game with Botvinnik - I don't understand that endgame at all.

[@JZChessVivaForever]

I would like to see some games from the Fischer-Reshevsky match. Reshevsky drew the match with Fischer because Fischer abandoned the match, if I recalled correctly. Alternatively. Fischer's wins with the Alekhine defence against Spassky in 1972, especially the game in which Fischer won with four Black pawns rolling down the board, were most memorable, and should be presented.

[@lemoncake7565]

Very interesting

[@fravatel]

Personally the game Quinteros - Fischer, Buenos Aires 1970 impressed me a lot, because of the amount of risk Fischer was willing to take into provoking his opponent into wild complications and then outcalculating him (not his main strength) and as far as I know the way he played with Black is still why this variation is considered to be not that good for White. Geller - Fischer 1970 (0-1) might be interesting from a competitive stance, since he managed to technically outplay his nemesis. For Spassky-games, I have to admit I know too little of them, but Spassky-Bronstein 1960 is a classic, even featured in a James Bond flick I recall.

[@d4django]

please do a poll to know.

[@accident_prone]

@6:26 After Bxg7 hxg3 I suppose ?!

[@samroy8628]

What a great match

[@miguelfonseca1104]

its really sad that larsen is not remembered as the top tournament player in the world until the kasparov-karpov era but instead for his crushing loss to Fischer in that 0-6 match. This very game is more remembered than the fact Larsen was first in the Ussr vs the world team match where despite this lost Larsen held spassky to a 1.5 -1.5 record and won vs Stein when he was replaced in round 4. Larsen beating Fischer in his prime in the sicilian doesnt get mentioned enough, or that stunning victory vs spassky in 64 with 1.f4. Larsen was a beast that could hang with the best of them but it seems most of the exposure he gets its as someones punching bag.

[@micahkeres7665]

A very beautiful game indeed. It's a pity Spassky didn't write much on his chess games.

[@sushan1051]

Next video on :- Daniel king vs David Howell .

[@profpimko]

Fischer-Samuel Reshevsky New York 1961 game 2

[@myopenmind527]

Love to see Spassky at his best.

[@patmetheny2462]

I want Andruet vs Spassky ... is a beautiful game.

[@burt591]

The opening was just suicidal

[@stigekalder]

I have uploaded a short interview with Bent Larsen from 1989. It's in Danish but I have added English subtitles. You can check it out here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6jTd4edqNmYqpY

[@krunalhamal5309]

I want to see Game 6 from 1972 world championship match

[@DevonDuke60]

Wow... And to think that Larsen actually fought with Fischer over 1st board in this tournament lol

[@PowerPlayChess]

Larsen and Spassky played three games in the USSR v. Rest of the World match. The score 1.5-1.5. In the fourth game Stein took over and Larsen beat him. Considering that Fischer hadn't played a serious tournament for 18 months, and that Larsen was in superb in the late 1960s winning tournament after tournament, Larsen fully deserved to be on board 1, and justified it by holding the World Champion.

[@fundhund62]

Raymond Keene thought 3.c4 was a mistake already.

[@PowerPlayChess]

That's a little exaggerated.

[@zarion1181]

Rh1 Woah!

[@ElColombre27360]

My favourite is the famous nimzoindian in the Spassky-Fischer world match, but I guess you will get there anyway....

[@edpowers5561]

Fischer crushes Najdorf whilst he played the Najdorf Sicilian from the 1960 s

[@alba4145]

Just wow

[@postmasterpez]

I want to see a bust to the king's gambit

[@prahladaudupa858]

I heard that Fischer in his later years was affected by hellucination when he was playing against Spassky in their world championship. Is that true Daniel

[@rhalleballe]

Interestingly, instead of 14 ... Rh1!! the Computer (Stockfish 9 64bit) by far prefers 14. ... Bxe3!! instead and if the pawn takes, then Rh1. Looks quite logically, as the d-line opens and the king cannot escape to the queens side. As Bxe3 directly threatens to take the white rook on g1 "for nothing", its hard to find any ressource for white. This moving order is much higher rated than immediate 14. ... Rh1. Is that to "computerish"? I dont think so, Bxe3 does not look artificial but quite logical. Even if its hard to find.

[@mcpartridgeboy]

Fishcer should obviously have played top board

[@PowerPlayChess]

Larsen and Spassky played three games in the USSR v. Rest of the World match. The score 1.5-1.5. In the fourth game Stein took over and Larsen beat him. Considering that Fischer hadn't played a serious tournament for 18 months, and that Larsen was in superb in the late 1960s winning tournament after tournament, Larsen fully deserved to be on board 1, and justified it by holding the World Champion.

[@svendolepoulsen8734]

What about a good Larsen-game? F.x. against Petrosian - not the Queen sacrifice though.

[@maxasvolodin118]

Hi Daniel, I think you can improve your videos (which are already great, by the way) by flipping board color when you show variations (i.e. something that did not happen in the game). This way it is easier to understand when you consider a variation or the actual continuation. See an example in this video @7:30: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWnNeWSblraHoM0. Note how the board switches from brown to green when the commentator starts showing a variation. And thanks for your great videos!

[@AlonsoRules]

13 moves and a passed pawn with an open h-file - goodbye Larsen

[@johnnybrew1]

It's a poor opening by Larsen. I bet Fischer did a crafty smirk when he saw the position.

[@jozefserf2024]

When he could be bothered Spassky could be as brilliant as anyone who ever lived.

[@marcwordsmith]

My favorite chess game ever: R Byrne - Fischer, '63/'64 U.S. Championship. Grunefeld Defense. Fischer won in 21 or 22 moves. I'm sure you covered it already though! :-)

[@phakamanisithole6939]

that was a bloodbath, larsen ddnt enjoy the game

[@usptact]

Larsen improvized a bit too much this game.

[@prisonerofwarhammer3814]

...and Larsen was Bent

[@terrabitic7090]

Conclusion: don't play the Larsen!

[@mwangikimani3970]

I think it is a perfectly playable albeit "unsound" opening... giving up space and time on the Kingside for a powerful Queens bishop has been proven by theory to be unsound... however i am sure it is a great surprise tool in tournaments. Nakamura used Nimzo-Larsen variations to beat top Grand masters in the Paris and Leuven chess tour few weeks ago.

[@PowerPlayChess]

There is nothing wrong with 1 b3. According to my database, Larsen played it 28 times, scoring an extraordinary 21 wins, 4 draws and 3 losses. He was too ambitious in this game, but that ambition often paid off.

[@patament2944]

Spassky was NOT a better attacker than Fisher

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

Fischer beat the weakest chess World champion Boris Spassky only 17 wins 10 losses! Capablanca would beat Spassky easily 8 wins 6 draws zero losses! Carlsen would beat Spassky easily 6 wins 6 draws zero losses! Morphy Tal Alekhine Kasparov had More beautiful games than Fischer!!

[@ChrisTopher-nr1vb]

Ridiculous play by White

[@abhishekkj3662]

This is an awful game by white ...well played by black though ..