Amazing Game: Bobby Fischer vs Boris Spassky, Game 8 - 1972 World Ch. English Opening
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Game 8 had many Instructive aspects to it. It had the English opening Symmetrical variation. White gained a small edge out of opening. There was a Central queen and a clever queen move to f4. Black followed a b5 plan. White had a d5 square bind and the White queen returned centrally. b5 was a mistake ending up losing exchange. There was some compensation for the exchange down.
But then Fischer used a common tactical idea after Spassky blundered again. Fischer made use of an intermediary check to get a more clearly winning advantage. Later there was an f5 break, breaking up opponent pawns and isolating pawns. Black ended up with multiple pawn islands. Fischer used ba7 a forcing move.
White was winning material out of opening, and made use of a non-committal queen maneuver. This was a kind of wait and see queen maneuver, switching attacking from kingside to queenside and discouraging b5.
There was a penalising b5 break and tactical penalties demonstrated. Raking bishops, tactical traps, and Spassky falling for them made this arguably Spassky's worst chess game of the match. The blunder game, for Spassky.
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). Fischer's win also ended, for a short time, 24 years of Soviet domination of the World Championship.
The first game was played on July 11, 1972. The last game (the 21st) began on August 31, was adjourned after 40 moves, and Spassky resigned the next day without resuming play. Fischer won the match 12½–8½, becoming the eleventh undisputed World Champion.
In 2016, former world chess champion Garry Kasparov commented on the global significance of the match, saying:
I think the reason you look at these matches probably was not so much the chess factor but to the political element, which was inevitable because in the Soviet Union, chess was treated by the Soviet authorities as a very important and useful ideological tool to demonstrate the intellectual superiority of the Soviet communist regime over the decadent West. That’s why the Spassky defeat [...] was treated by people on both sides of the Atlantic as a crushing moment in the midst of the Cold War.[1]
Background
The match was played during the Cold War, although during a period of increasing détente. The Soviet Chess School had long held a monopoly on the game at the highest level. Spassky was the latest in an uninterrupted chain of Soviet world chess champions, stretching back to the 1948 championship.[2]
he pressure on Spassky was enormous because for the Soviets, chess was part of the political system.[7][8][9] While Fischer was often famously critical of his home country ("Americans want to plunk in front of a TV and don't want to open a book ..."), he too carried a burden of expectation because of the match's political significance. ...
Game 8: Fischer–Spassky, 1–0 (English Symmetrical)
Fischer–Spassky, game 8
Spassky played 19...Nd7??
July 27. Fischer again played 1.c4; the game remained an English Opening rather than transposing to another opening as in game 6. After 14...a6 the game was even.[105] Spassky gave up an exchange with 15...b5? for little compensation in the way of a positional advantage. It is unclear whether Spassky's 15th move was a sacrifice or a blunder, but his 19th move was definitely a blunder that lost a pawn and left him with a hopeless position. Fischer won, putting him ahead 5–3.
English Opening, Symmetrical Defense (ECO A39)
1.c4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.g3 g6 5.Bg2 Bg7 6.0-0 0-0 7.d4 cxd4 8.Nxd4 Nxd4 9.Qxd4 d6 10.Bg5 Be6 11.Qf4 Qa5 12.Rac1 Rab8 13.b3 Rfc8 14.Qd2 a6 15.Be3 b5 16.Ba7 bxc4 17.Bxb8 Rxb8 18.bxc4 Bxc4 19.Rfd1 (diagram) Nd7 20.Nd5 Qxd2 21.Nxe7+ Kf8 22.Rxd2 Kxe7 23.Rxc4 Rb1+ 24.Bf1 Nc5 25.Kg2 a5 26.e4 Ba1 27.f4 f6 28.Re2 Ke6 29.Rec2 Bb2 30.Be2 h5 31.Rd2 Ba3 32.f5+ gxf5 33.exf5+ Ke5 34.Rcd4 Kxf5 35.Rd5+ Ke6 36.Rxd6+ Ke7 37.Rc6 1–0[106]
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