OT: Boris Spassky Dead at 88

[RUhasarrived]

The World Chess Champion from Russia and Brooklyn's Bobby Fischer played a late summer championship match in Iceland in 1972,which was a precursor to the Miracle on Ice in 1980.The event was covered worldwide.Ch.13 covered the match here with Grandmaster Shelby Lyman recreating each move on a wall board.To this day,the interest in chess has never been surpassed.Today,millions of chess boards lie unused in closets.
As for the match itself,top Grandmasters claimed that both players had made serious mistakes but Spassky played far worse,one Grandmaster contending that Spassky quit the final game much too early.

 

[superfan01]

Magnus Carlson is the GOAT and way better than both.

 

[runrutgersrun]

The World Chess Champion from Russia and Brooklyn's Bobby Fischer played a late summer championship match in Iceland in 1972,which was a precursor to the Miracle on Ice in 1980.The event was covered worldwide.Ch.13 covered the match here with Grandmaster Shelby Lyman recreating each move on a wall board.To this day,the interest in chess has never been surpassed.Today,millions of chess boards lie unused in closets.
As for the match itself,top Grandmasters claimed that both players had made serious mistakes but Spassky played far worse,one Grandmaster contending that Spassky quit the final game much too early.

Thank you for posting! During their matches that year my friends and I watched and talked more chess than in all of the rest of my life put together! I.guess we weren't the only people who lost interest after a pass kung is her ended. This was while the Cold War was still raging. Everyone loved Fischer for knocking off the Russian. He, Fischer, was a pretty eccentric dude, though. His trolley couldn't stay on the rails, as I recall. Kind of a shame...sounded like his demons got the best of him.

 

[WhiteBus]

Magnus Carlson is the GOAT and way better than both.

Different era. Can't compare him to them.

 

[RUinPinehurst]

Alas, Boris, the ultimate checkmate....

 

[29PAS]

Seems like a lot of people are dying lately :)

 

[rutgersdave]

Putin finally got him.

 

[RUsundevil]

Hard to argue with Magnus' or Kasperov's longevity but Bobby was as brutal of a closer as there has ever been.

 

[T2Kplus20]

Magnus Carlson is the GOAT and way better than both.

Carlson - there are 3 players with legit claim for being the chess GOAT:

 

[HeywoodGiant]

His pawn to King was a thing of beauty

 

[thegock]

My second oldest friend is a very accomplished player, who won the Manhattan Chess Club championship, among other things.

He told this story: he and Boris had lunch in San Francisco in 2010. Boris had the cream of chicken soup and my friend told him it was bad for him. Boris countered that it was good for him and had another cup. That night he had his stroke. My friend visited him in the hospital the next day.