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Boris Spassky vs Viktor Korchnoi
Spassky - Korchnoi Match (2009), Kalmykia RUS, rd 8, Dec-26
Russian Game: Cozio (Lasker) Attack (C42)  ·  1/2-1/2

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Dec-26-09  AnalyzeThis: Korchnoi knew what he was doing when he answered 1. e4 with 1....e5 in this game. He knew it was a very good bet that Spassky would play the Qe2 line and call it a draw.
Dec-27-09  lost in space: Great game. I learnt a lot.

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Dec-27-09
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  Chessical: One interesting plan in this position is:

<12. h3> Rd8 13. g4 Nbd7 14. Nd4 Ne5 15. Bg3 Ng6 16. f4; Saltaev - Barua, Teheran 1998.


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Dec-27-09  Astardis: Now this has got to be one of the more disappointing moments in my chess life. Korchnoi not only playing the Russian, which, from all I know, he hates, but also him conceding an 11 move draw. What the heck?
Dec-27-09  Marmot PFL: No reason to play this out.
Dec-28-09  shishio71: A classic example of the 'grandmaster draw'
Dec-28-09  Petrosianic: A classic example of the Contentless Comment.
Dec-28-09  whiteshark: A classic example of the 'fair game policy' at work.
Dec-28-09  AnalyzeThis: Petrosian probably wouldn't have lost to Spassky in their second world championship match, if he had retained the nerve to continue playing the Petroff and making draws.
Dec-28-09  beenthere240: There is 1. d4, which Spassky has also been known to play.
Dec-30-09  AnalyzeThis: Oh sure. But the point is, Spassky actually did play 1. e4 in the crucial games, and Petrosian, unwisely in my opinion, played the Sicilian, rather than the Petroff.
Dec-30-09  ewan14: Spassky might have won the World Championship in 1966 if he had not got sunstroke on his day off , after equalising the match score !
Dec-30-09  Petrosianic: Yeah, those Moscow Springs are brutal. You need 80 block at least.

(Not to mention that there WAS no day off. Spassky failed to take a timeout after equalizing the score, as many people thought he should have. Good guess, though.)

Sep-28-22
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  FSR: Spassky was quite fond of 5.Qe2 for some reason. In his later years he even managed to win a couple of games with it. https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... But the other 17 were draws. In the present game, probably both players were content to draw the last game and the match.

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