SPRAGGETT ON CHESS
Time flies when you are having fun! Hard to believe that it is already 40 years ago today that Game 1 of the Match of the Century was held. The much anticipated match (by the chess world, that is) got off to a disasterous start for the American superstar, whose controversial 29th move got the rest of the world started talking chess….soon Fischer had become the biggest news draw in history! The match re-invented the chess world and got hundreds of millions of people playing the game….
POSITION AFTER WHITE’S 29th MOVE (29.b5)
FISCHER
SPASSKY
Fischer played the baffling 29…Bxh2, a move that still today fans argue about whether it was a blunder or not. We will never know for sure…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6wsmVtJzcM]
Fischer shaking hands when he resigned game 1.
[Event “01”]
[Site “Reykjavik wm”]
[Date “1972”]
[Round “”]
[White “Spassky B”]
[Black “Fischer R”]
[Result “1-0”]
[Eco “E56”]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. e3 O-O 6. Bd3 c5 7. O-O Nc6 8. a3
Ba5 9. Ne2 dxc4 10. Bxc4 Bb6 11. dxc5 Qxd1 12. Rxd1 Bxc5 13. b4 Be7 14. Bb2
Bd7 15. Rac1 Rfd8 16. Ned4 Nxd4 17. Nxd4 Ba4 18. Bb3 Bxb3 19. Nxb3 Rxd1+ 20.
Rxd1 Rc8 21. Kf1 Kf8 22. Ke2 Ne4 23. Rc1 Rxc1 24. Bxc1 f6 25. Na5 Nd6 26. Kd3
Bd8 27. Nc4 Bc7 28. Nxd6 Bxd6 29. b5 Bxh2 30. g3 h5 31. Ke2 h4 32. Kf3 Ke7
33. Kg2 hxg3 34. fxg3 Bxg3 35. Kxg3 Kd6 36. a4 Kd5 37. Ba3 Ke4 38. Bc5 a6 39.
b6 f5 40. Kh4 f4 41. exf4 Kxf4 42. Kh5 Kf5 43. Be3 Ke4 44. Bf2 Kf5 45. Bh4 e5
46. Bg5 e4 47. Be3 Kf6 48. Kg4 Ke5 49. Kg5 Kd5 50. Kf5 a5 51. Bf2 g5 52. Kxg5
Kc4 53. Kf5 Kb4 54. Kxe4 Kxa4 55. Kd5 Kb5 56. Kd6 1-0
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