Amazing Game: Boris Spassky vs Bobby Fischer - 1972 World Ch Game 13 - Alekhine's Defence

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FIDE CM Kingscrusher goes over World Chess Championship 1972 Game 13 - Boris Spassky vs Bobby Fischer. It had Instructive game aspects including using the Alekhine defence as a provocative defence and surprise weapon of choice.

There was an early fianchetto by black, avoiding opponents opening preparation. The a4 became a pawn tactical target.

FIscher's Na6-c5 was usd for putting pressure on a4 pawn. Black wins the a pawn, white has compensation for the pawn. g4 by spassky charging forward was aggressive looking with central knights. There was a temporary queen sacrifice by Fischer to transition to the endgame where black had 3 to 2 pawn majority on queenside and an outside passed pawn.

There was a defensive exchange sacrifice. Fisher has many passed pawns in endgame. White had a bishop for several pawns and space invader type pawns coming down the board. The f pawn became a winning pawn and spassky cracked in the endgame under pressure.

Spassky vs Fischer, World championship 1972, Game 13

Boris Spassky vs Robert James Fischer
"Fischer King" (chessgames.com game of the day Nov-01-08)

What is 1972 World Championship?

The World Chess Championship 1972 was a match for the World Chess Championship between challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States and defending champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. The match took place in the Laugardalshöll arena in Reykjavík, Iceland, and has been dubbed the Match of the Century. Fischer became the first American born in the United States to win the world title, and the second American overall (Wilhelm Steinitz, the first world champion, became a naturalized American citizen in 1888). ...

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Game 13: Spassky–Fischer, 0–1 (Alekhine's Defense)

August 10. Fischer avoided the Sicilian Defense, with which he had lost game 11, opting for Alekhine's Defense. After 8...a5! 9.a4? (9.c3!? and Black is only slightly better; Gligorić) dxe5 10.dxe5 Na6! 11.0-0 Nc5, Fischer had the upper hand (Bagirov).[124] The game swung one way, then another, and was finally adjourned at move 42 with Fischer having an edge in a sharp position but no clear win. The Soviet team's analysis convinced them that the position was drawn. Fischer stayed up until 8 a.m. analyzing it (the resumption being at 2:30 p.m.). He had not found a win either, but managed to win a complicated pawns-versus-rook endgame after Spassky missed a relatively simple draw with 69.Rc3+. Spassky's seconds were stunned, and Spassky himself refused to leave the board for a long time after the game was over, unable to believe the result. He remarked, "It is very strange. How can one lose with the opponent's only rook locked in completely at g8?"[53]

Lombardy noted the shock that Spassky was in after he resigned:[125]

While Fischer dashed for his car, Spassky remained glued to his seat. A sympathetic Lothar Schmid came over, and the two shifted the pieces about with Boris demonstrating his careless mistakes. The two were left wondering how Bobby could have squeezed a win from a position which a night of competent analysis by a renowned Soviet team had showed to be a guaranteed draw.

Former World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik said this game made a particularly strong impression on him. He called it "the highest creative achievement of Fischer". He resolved a drawish opposite-colored bishops endgame by sacrificing his bishop and trapping his own rook. "Then five passed pawns struggled with the white rook. Nothing similar had been seen before in chess".[126]