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Wednesday May 28, 2008
Spassky - McNab drawn!
Here's something one does not read about every day: an amateur drawing with a Grandmaster. Not to mention the fact that the game was played with the contestants separated by 8,000 mile (12, 875 km). Grandmaster Spassky is the former world champion who was defeated in 1972 by Grandmaster Bobby Fischer (who had a losing record to Spassky at the time of the match). Fischer's playing strength had by 1972 surpassed every one else in the world, and Spassky never really had a chance, though he gave his all.
Fischer gave up his World Champion title by forfeit in 1975, when he refused to defend the title against rising Soviet Grandmaster Anatoly Karpov. The world lost a great chess match when Fischer refused to play Karpov. Personally, I think Fischer would have hard pressed to defeat Karpov in 1975 who was gaining strength seemingly by the day in the mid-1970s, and Fischer had not played chess for 3 years.
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Posted at 07:40AM May 28, 2008 by tgardner in Chess | Comments[0]