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| Aug-08-04 | | Everett: Spassky and Larsen played more than one game in Russia vs The Rest of the World in 1970, three I believe. I think Spassky had a sub in game 4, but for three games, the two went +1 -1 =1. Besides the 17 move bomb Spassky put on Larsen, Bent won this psycho game. In this database, this is Spassky's only loss in 1970. |
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| Aug-08-04 | | iron maiden: Spassky was replaced in the fourth game by Stein, who lost to Larsen. The excuse was illness, but rumor had it that the replacement was actually due to Spassky's poor play in this game. |
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| Aug-08-04 | | Everett: Thanks iron maiden. Interesting, on the first board, then, Larsen beat the tandem of Spassky and Stein +2 -1 =1. How many people realize that? |
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| Aug-08-04 | | iron maiden: <Everett> In fact, Larsen's loss to Spassky was the World's only defeat in the sixteen games on the top four boards. |
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| Aug-08-04 | | Everett: WOW! I don't know my history at all. Read an article in chess life, and online recently, about how dissappointed Spassky was by his team's performance, stating they had all these "stars," but did not have a "team" Who played 3rd -6th board for the World? |
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| Aug-08-04 | | iron maiden: <Everett> Here are the players for the World team, with Soviet opponent in parenthesis: 1. Larsen (Spassky/Stein)
2. Fischer (Petrosian)
3. Portisch (Korchnoi)
4. Hort (Polugaevsky)
5. Gligoric (Geller)
6. Reshevsky/Olafsson (Smyslov)
7. Uhlmann (Taimanov)
8. Matulovic (Botvinnik)
9. Najdorf (Tal)
10.Ivkov (Keres) |
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Aug-08-04
 | | Gypsy: The individual matches went as follows:
Larsen - Spassky/Stein 2.5:1.5 (Larsen -Spassky 1.5:1.5)
Fischer - Petrosian 3:1
Portisch - Korchnoi 2.5:1.5
Hort - Polugaevsky 2.5:1.5
Gligoric - Geller 1.5:2.5
Reshevsky/Olafson - Smyslov 1.5:2.5 (Reshevsky - Smyslov 1.5:1.5)
Uhlman - Taimanov 1.5:2.5
Matulovic - Botvinnik 1.5:2.5
Najdorf - Tal 2:2
Ivkov - Keres 1:3 |
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| Aug-08-04 | | Everett: Thank you iron maiden, Gypsy.
Was there another recent Russian vs. the Rest of the World match? Didn't Russia lose, and Kasparov not do well? I would have loved to have seen the one in 1970. I was born 3 years afterwards. |
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Aug-09-04
| | Gypsy: There were later matches, but I was not following chess when they happened. The first match was a real classic though. The only sad thing was that Portish agreed to a draw by repetition when he was an exchange up and had a laborious but technical draw. Win in that game would have tied the match at 20:20, the most appropriate result for that event. |
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| Aug-09-04 | | iron maiden: <Everett> They had another USSR vs. the World match in 1984. See http://www.worldchessrating.boom.ru.... |
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| Aug-09-04 | | Shah Mat: wow this IS a really weird game. I have to say that spassky's immediate tactical attack on blacks' center is pretty bold and refreshing, and even if his endgame was unsound, the opening combonations made for nothing less htan interesting play. |
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| Feb-20-05 | | WMD: 37.Kf1 is as bad as any blunder Spassky made against Fischer. 'Benya' was reportedly down to his last couple of minutes, and Boris was trying to hurry him. 37.Nb6 Nxb6 38.Rxb6 g3 39.Rf1 should hold. |
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| Dec-26-07 | | Petrosianic: This is the game played right AFTER the oft-anthologized 17 moved butt-kicking Spassky gave to Larsen in this game: Larsen vs Spassky, 1970
And it is a pretty bizarre one. After his ingenious play the game before, Spassky hands this one to Larsen on a silver platter. And so, despite having a lifetime +19-6 record against Larsen, he was only +1-1=1 against him in the USSR vs. The Rest of the World Match. After this game, the Soviets benched Spassky for the final round, and replaced him with Stein, to avoid the possibility of Larsen defeating the World Champion. |
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| Dec-26-07 | | RookFile: It was this version of Larsen that was considered a real threat to beat Fischer and go on to win the world championship. |
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| Dec-26-07 | | underdoggum: wait, why not 14.Bxd8?
there be a bishop fork |
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Dec-26-07
 | | Phony Benoni: <underdoggum> That's right, and it's always good to keep your eyes open for such stuff. But I imagine it was a sacrifice on Black's part. Let's look at the position after <14.Bxd8 Nxd6 15.Be7 Nxc4 16.Bxf8 Rxf8>:
click for larger view
Black already has one pawn for the exchange, and is threatening to gain another if he wishes by either ...Nxb2 or ...Nd2. His pawn position is more solid, his knights aggressive, and there's no obvious place for the White rooks to do any damage. Of coruse, things are far more complicated than this summary might indicate, but you can be sure that both players looked at positions like this and judged them perfectly good for Black. |
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| Dec-05-08 | | PolishPentium: Would 31 Nxg7+ be an improvement for White? It certainly appears to be from this duffer's perspective... |
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| Dec-05-08 | | danielpi: <Polish>
Well, if 31. Nxg7+ Ke5 32. Rd7 fxe3 33. fxe3 Rg8...
To my eyes looks better for Black... but probably far more of a patzer than you. |
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| Feb-21-09 | | WhiteRook48: was this Larseny? |
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Sep-13-10
 | | HeMateMe: The data base here has Spassky beating Larsen 19-6 with 17 draws. Not quite as decisive as Fischer's 12-2, and one draw. This game is pretty wild, and doesn't really feel like a Spassky game. |
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Sep-13-10
 | | perfidious: I suspect Spassky evaluated the positions arising after 13.gxf3 as clearly better for him in his preliminary analysis, overlooking the consequences of the elegant rejoinder 13....Ne8. As noted by <Phony Benoni>, if White should accept the exchange sacrifice, it's difficult to utilise his slight material advantage, and the game continuation is by no means bad for him. |
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| Nov-14-10 | | Tigranny: Isn't Kf1 a blunder because Spassky loses both a rook and knight? |
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| Dec-30-10 | | BLarsen1967: http://www.chesscafe.com/video/vide... |
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| Dec-30-10 | | BLarsen1967: <danielpi> Yes,and also 33..Rd8 34.Rgd1 Rxd7 35.Rxd7 a4 - that too looks real fine for Black |
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| Apr-18-14 | | Eduardo Bermudez: The only chess player, no russian, who won against three reigning world champions with black pieces ! |
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