That's why I said: "FIDE held out hope against hope until 1975 that Fischer would reverse his decision but he never did."

<They should have looked at all the other games where Miles played something offbeat against Karpov.>

Moscow 1974 rages out of control now. During game 19, November 4-5, Karpov made a serious mistake in etiquette. He was leading by a precious three whole games against Korchnoi with only 6 games to go. He should have been serving lunch, coffee and amenities to Korchnoi. He should have sent him his personal limousine to fetch Korchnoi to the games. He should have been absolutely proper. Instead he stared into Korchnoi's face while he was deep in thought.

Korchnoi keeps a thermos of tea prepared by Bella near the board. He watches this thermos to be certain that nobody puts anything into it as Spassky probably was drugged in Iceland. (Honest!)

As Korchnoi looked up to check on thermos bottle, he noticed Karpov's eyes blazing away as if to hypnotize him! He called the referee over (Alberic O’Kelly of Belgium) and asked that Karpov be instructed to quit staring into his eyes! O'Kelley agreed with Korchnoi and made the request.

Yes, the Queen's Indian, KID, and Nimzo-Indian can be traced all the way back to the 19th century, but they were rarely played and were not all that well understood.

It was mostly Indian players who played these lines, because they were used to the Indian version of chess where such moves were the norm.

That doesn't mean they were following the hypermodern philosophy of Nimzowitsch, Bogoljubov, Reti, and Alekhine.

I think that in his mind he made a distinction between the "World Championship title" and the "FIDE World Championship title". The "World Championship title" was the chess title determined by a match arranged between the defending champion and his challenger. The "FIDE World Championship title" was the chess title administered by FIDE in whatever format they determined. Thus, Fischer could claim, at least in his mind, that the 1992 "World Championship title" match with Spassky was the legitimate World Chess Championship title and not the titles determined by FIDE's regulations.

That is exactly what he did. His mistake was in thinking that he had won some other world title than the FIDE one that he could retain. But there wasn't. When he resigned the FIDE Title, he resigned everything.

Lasker also resigned his title successfully. It's ridiculous to think someone can't resign a title. That they're in whether they like to or not, like the mob. In Lasker's mind, he played Capa as the challenger. In the eyes of the world, they allowed him to retract his resignation. Had Fischer played in good time, they probably would have allowed him to do the same. 18 years later they didn't.

<The "World Championship title" was the chess title determined by a match arranged between the defending champion and his challenger. The "FIDE World Championship title" was the chess title administered by FIDE in whatever format they determined. Thus, Fischer could claim, at least in his mind, that the 1992 "World Championship title" match with Spassky was the legitimate World Chess Championship title and not the titles determined by FIDE's regulations.>

This was not the first time that a world champion had tried to resign his title. Emanuel Lasker attempted to resign his title in 1920, in favor of Capablanca. Nobody took that seriously either, and Lasker was eventually convinced to play the match with Capablanca the following year.>

Korchnoi's excellent 66 Kb3! is the only way.

a) 66 Kd2? Qa5+! 67 Kc1 (67 Ke2 Qh5+) Qa1+

b) 66 Kb2? Qe5+ 67 Kc2 Kh2

c) 66 Qc4? Qxc4+