According to all reports, Spassky is a real nice guy, too.
Really funny how the Soviet that Fischer beat was world champion but is only famous for losing
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Fischer was really cool
And I know he turned into a really bad guy later but he's really the only one that has a good story
It weird how he would love chess then hate
He may have been unstable in the head
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The only other American "world champion", Morphy, went off his stick, too.
I put "world champion" in quotes because the title didn't actually exist in Morphy's day.
Mar 20, 2019
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To return to the subject of Spassky, he's famous for more than just losing the title to Fischer.
Watch him crush a world championship contender in 17 moves:
That's interesting
Spassky was too nice, even Karpov thought so.
He said that Spassky should have walked away from the match, which he had every right to do and keep his title, when Fischer didn't show up for the second game and insisted that the third game be played away from the main stage in a separate room without cameras.
Spassky could have done the dignified thing and made Fischer look like a cry baby who was too afraid to play with his ridiculous demands but he decided to be a gentleman about it, and ultimately paid the price.
The ironic thing was that, despite America painting the match in a Cold War setting, Spassky was far too individualistic to be seen as a tool for communist propaganda and often refused to listen to his superiors.
Well i must be wrong about nobody careing about spassky because I'm seeing a lot of support for him here
I like Fischer a lot because he was a self made man. Spassky had a lot of help from his government. The soviets had a lot of pride in the chess players so he got helped by them as much as possible. It was kinda Goliath vs David situation. I'm not going to lie. I'm glad he embarrassed the Soviet In the the cold war
I'm not sure what you mean
Are you really a gm
We both know what gm means
Not general motors
ghost_of_pushwood wrote:
trump2020maga1 wrote:
Spassky had a lot of help from his government. The soviets had a lot of pride in the chess players so he got helped by them as much as possible.
I don't know about that. How'd he end up in France?
Honestly I don't know a lot about the topic and I'm just repeating what I heard. If you did your research your probably right.
You got to fell bad for the guy