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**help bot** · August 29th 06, 01:18 AM posted to rec.games.chess.misc,rec.games.chess.politics

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BOBBY'S MOST FAMOUS MOVE

In CHESS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 1972 GM Evans has this to
say about 29...Bxh2 in game one, which is probably Bobby's most
famous move.

A miscalculation which is not fatal in itself, although most players
attributed Fischer's loss to this capture of the "poisoned" pawn. Black
is not content to settle for a draw and he wants to keep winning
chances alive. Having demonstrated that the champion could not
achieve the vestige of an advantage with White, Fischer now seems
to be saying "you can't draw with me that easily!"

After 30 g3 GM Evans noted:

Spassky bolted upright in his chair. His first reaction must have
been that he overlooked something. "Fischer must see something
we don't," whispered a reverential fan. In the rear of the hall
Spassky's second, Soviet Grandmaster Ewfim Geller, was
smiling broadly from ear to ear.

It is not surprising that, many years ago when Evans' mind
was not yet so clouded as it is today, he was able to accept
the fact that Fischer's Bxh2 blunder in fact lost material. His
weak attempts to reinterpret this as a deliberate act, however,
clearly indicate that his cold war mentality was already a
serious handicap, causing him to twist and spin events such
as to "fit in" with his contorted, cold war version of reality.

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I did not know that Spassky had bolted upright in his chair,
or that Geller had also outcalculated Fischer on this turn --
very interesting. Spassky is one of those players who is
not afraid to work small advantages in the endgame, though
he is most remembered for his brilliant attacks, like his
famous miniature of Larsen. Oddly enough, the players who
are remembered for working small advantages in the endgame
include Fischer himself, along with Petrosian, Karpov, and
Botvinnik. (Capablanca required no advantage whatever in
the endgame in order to win.)

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