Spassky shocks Fischer - Spassky vs Fischer | Olympiad Siegen 1970 |

[@jprw]

Thank you for covering this game, a titanic battle between two titans of the game at perhaps their peak. And maybe Spassky's finest hour.

[@jeskaaable]

Hi Daniel, I'm an amateur chess player and I find your videos great, so keep'em coming ! Especially the Fisher ones, his talent is a joy to watch !

[@evi9740]

jeskaaable I like Spassky.

[@KrishnaKumar-np3tw]

Nice to see more games showing historical games, esp how Fischer played. What an amazing player! Thanks GM for your valuable time.

[@chessdad182]

It really helped to explain the player’s psychology. I can imagine Fischer wasn’t excited about a draw. LOL. Rf8 is a clever move. In Boris Spassky: Master of Initiative, the position at move 38 of this game is shown for puzzle 21.

[@stephenlubera7517]

Enjoyed the game very much.an exciting double edged fight.i appreciate your commentary also,it is both enjoyable and instructive.thanks for the video.

[@Bethuriel]

Thnx 4 this game. An extraordinary and remarkable masterpice. Since i was borne in the town of Siegen this was the reason for me to get down to chess. Just a little note : The price for the best result at board one was a made-to-messure suit due to Fischer's dedicated fondness for good attire. And, for some reason, it was made due to his size. But after this game it was Spassky to win the suit, so they had to adjust it in a hurry.

[@kojiattwood]

Now THAT'S a great prize!

[@PowerPlayChess]

That's a great story!

[@Bethuriel]

More facts to this suit thing in Raj Tischbiereks book Sternsrunden des Schachs 30 x Olympia London 1927-Manila 1992 by the way , a good source when it comes to facts related to chess history

[@horvathliviu2101]

Thanks for the game. A pawn sacrifice, a nice movie covering the moments.

[@florentietis]

Great video, as always. thank you!

[@drutgat2]

Very interesting. Thank you, Daniel.

[@ElKartoffelbreii]

Love your videos, never found anyone understanding and explaining positions as well as you do! I know you are not a big fan of computer chess, but the Neural Networks in TCEC (Leela Chess Zero and DeusX) played a few fascinating games. Can we maybe expect a video or two on that topic after you finished the Fischer-Spassky-series?

[@clarenceyee3529]

It's interesting that Bobby didn't use the Grunfeld in either the 1972 or 1992 match.

[@PowerPlayChess]

Spassky certainly had a good record on the white side against Fischer. Also, the Gruenfeld has some very forcing variations that are easy to prepare. This is said with hindsight, but Fischer's opening choices in Reykjavik were very canny!

[@thedarkcrazycyborg1812]

awesome game keep up daniel!!!

[@n20games52]

It was an exciting time to be a chess fan.

[@ksfromgermany2248]

Thanks Daniel! Could you discuss the famous fourth game of the Match Fischer - Taimanov 1971? This game is still an enigmatic monument to me. At what point did Taimanov lose this game? And why did Fischer play 19. Rfe1 instead of 19. c4? Looks like poor judgement from his side in one of his greatest games. And there are two more great games of Fischer with amazing mistakes on his side, making the win much more difficult: Fischer - Stein, Sousse 1967 (26. Nf3 instead of the pretty obvious 26. Sxf7) and Fischer - Larsen, game 1 in Denver 1971 (21. Bf3 instead of 21. Bd6 followed by Be5 winning immediately - disregarded also by contemporary commentators). One would expect Fischer to see such things easily. On the other hand, if Fischer had played the strongest moves at those points, we would never have seen his fantastic and almost perfect play in the following moves of these games! Bobby Fischer was really a phenomenal chess player.

[@PowerPlayChess]

All in good time. I have plenty of other things on my plate at the moment.

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

Also Fischer against Geller in 1967 Siciliano Sozin so called flawed masterpiece Fischer played 17:exf7?? 17:Rook f6!! Wins easily!! And more Fischer beat Spassky only 17 wins 10 losses! And today the crazy people claiming that Carlsen would lose against Fischer big time! Carlsen is 100xtimes better than Spassky! Capablanca would beat Spassky easily 8 wins 6 draws zero losses! Carlsen would beat Spassky easily 6 wins 6 draws zero losses!

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

Fischer against Spassky in 1966 olympiad Fischer played Queen a6?? Rook e3! wins easily!!

[@jonbaker2102]

Why on earth didn't Spassky play like this is the big match? Spassky imposed his will-impressive!

[@pawankulkarni3403]

Beautiful game by Spassky!

[@MEME-qe4ze]

it’s usually difficult for black in playing the gruenfeld.

[@fergusfitzgerald977]

Did Fischer ever beat Spassky before the World Championship Match ?

[@echever7424]

No.

[@thecityofjoy]

Interesting .... So Spassky played more like Alekhine and Fischer more like Capablanca ....

[@Ramroshen]

Why fischer play rook d6 at the end?

[@chessmaster1115]

37. Re2 Qd6 38. Re7 Qb6 39. Nf6+ Kf8 40. Re8+ Rxe8 41. Nd7+ forking king and queen i think if Qd6 by fischer instead of 37. ... Rd6

[@Дмитро-х2г]

Great game, but it was a bit difficult to follow with all the variations being shown. Perhaps you can somehow better separate main line from the could have been lines. Either graphically or emphatically. I watch a lot of Agamador’s channel games and never have an issue of losing focus on the gameplay.

[@sonosofisms]

Dima Habenko agadmator is good too but in comparison to GM King he doesn’t discuss even half of the potential of a position, or the external drama

[@Дмитро-х2г]

PerMagnus Lindborg That very well may be so - I don’t watch this channel often. But My suggestion was about style of the presentation, not the content.

[@ОлегЧирков-л1ы]

@@Дмитро-х2г mr.King's style is perfect. Not fast, clear. He shows important and interesting back lines, but not so many like other guys. If for you it's hard to understand you should try to be better at chess. For me his style is absolutely perfect.

[@JimJWalker]

Spassky is historically underrated because Fischer was just so good. Spassky would be a top 5 player today if he were in his 20s.

[@AllThisOverASliceOfGabagool]

Jim Walker what evidence are you basing that on mate?

[@FlaminalLow]

But he was world champion and the second best player around...how’s that ‘underrated’?

[@AriMakela]

One could argue about the second best. Before Reykjavik Spassky had +3 against Fischer without a single loss.

[@chessmountain]

Spassky peak year is 1964 -68,even though he become world champion in 69..Becoming a challenger for two consecutive times,already we can say how strong he was.

[@achyuththouta6957]

@@chessmountain Spassky lifetime against Karpov is 1-14 so Spassky is only good against attacking tactical players and could easily crush them. Spassky would have lost badly against Karpov , Botvinnnik, Petrosian but could easily defeat Mikhail tal , Kasparov Garry , James Fischer

[@markhughes7927]

That rook move lost it!

[@sudeepgmenon]

Spassky😘

[@ninonucaro8539]

Like a good older getting wine