Lost or Sacrificed? - Fischer vs Petrosian Game 3 | Candidates 1971

[@horrortackleharry]

Fischer's best 'move' in this game was walking over to the arbiter to claim the draw!

[@Robster543210]

Thank you. A most excellent game. Surprised to see Bobby drop a pawn so early in the opening, but he fought on of course.

[@andrewfleming3445]

Great channel!!

[@Haufpunk]

Nice to see Douglas Griffin getting a shout out. Does a great job with old games and photos.

[@dpayO2]

What a lucky escape!

[@KrishnaKumar-np3tw]

Great to be back on the road to Reykjavik!

[@RoyGazoff]

Thanks for the coverage

[@luigi777aa]

"Russians vs Fischer" may be an excellent book, but the title is horribly wrong. It reminds me of one history during a tournament in Bled (in the 60s I think), where Fischer after having won against Geller and Tal, and still before his games against Petrosian and Keres, said: " I will win all 4 games against Russians". Keres answered: "It is absolutely impossible." Fischer asked why. Keres said: "Even if you won against Geller, you won against an Ukrainian and not a Russian. You won against Tal, but he is not Russian - he is Latvian. Even if you win against Petrosian, you will win against an Armenian and not a Russian. And even if you win the game with me, you will still not win against a Russian, because I am Estonian."

[@tome57a]

LOL okay, "Soviets v Fischer" then. The Soviet players could be a bit evasive, couldn't they? By the same token, to Fischer, they were all Russian, and it was he against the whole lot of them.

[@krishnar3493]

Interesting

[@yanair2091]

I think at the time all those Baltic countries were Russia, so the title is not much off.

[@luigi777aa]

@@yanair2091 Ukraine and Armenia are not Baltic countries. Moreover, the name of the stete was not Russia but Soviet Union and the republics of this state were (at least theoritaclly) autonomous. Moreover, you cannot say that all people inthe Soviet Union are Russions. It would be very ridiculous.

[@yanair2091]

@@luigi777aa Interesting, somewhere back in my mind I had that there must be mention of Russia or anything russian in the name of the country, which even you didn't give fully. It was CCCP, or SSSR in latinic. Four words. But you are right, of course, they were not russians. It's just ubiquitous to blame Russia for the experiment.

[@TBKGOLDY]

I loved this coverage very much mr. King.

[@stephenwolf3918]

Daniel King is the best in the business

[@alvinrodney6229]

This just goes to show how sharp and resourceful GM Fischer was as a player over the chessboard. He knew the rule-book inside out and will fight to the tooth to claim any and every advantage possible. As the late world champ, Emanuel Lasker, once said, "Chess is, above all, a fight!"

[@n20games52]

What a crazy ending move!

[@ME-kd1ko]

Looking closely at the first three games of this match, the conclusion has to be that Fischer was lucky to be 1.5-1.5, and not 0-3. He did indeed finish with four straight wins, but Petrosian played considerably better in the first half of the match.

[@fundhund62]

Petrosian certainly had the better chances in the first half, but drawing from a superior position was quite normal for him. For example, in the 11th game of his 1966 match against Spassky, he proposed a draw being a sound pawn ahead. And just one game later he was apparently unaware of another threefold repitition when Spassky claimed a draw, and Petrosian "seemed quite chagrined" (Golombek).

[@Peptoid]

Great chess channel. Should have been the popular one instead of you know who

[@AndreaCremoni]

Here's Douglas Griffin's blog about Soviet Chess History that Daniel talked about in the video dgriffinchess.wordpress.com/

[@ex59neo53]

Korchnoi .... He was a Viktor ,not a Ferdinand :p

[@bobdole7292]

Fischer can play knight c to e2 instead of the g knight and save the pawn, of course he didn’t lose the pawn??

[@MEME-qe4ze]

only fischer knows if he lost or sacrificed that pawn...it’s unclear, but what is clear is petrosian screwed up! i bet he got a spanking from the kremlin on this game!

[@Abc-tx5hy]

hum...

[@anthonym1880]

Silly Fischer