Taylor Kingston wrote:
Louis Blair wrote:
If someone has a copy of No Regrets handy perhaps
they can find something on the Bxh2 move. If I
remember correctly, there was a question about
it in one of the interviews.

I can find only a very brief mention, on page 15. The first press
conference of the 1992 match, on 1 September, had this exchange between
Ivan Solotaroff of Equire magazine and Fischer:

Q: Why did you take on h2 in the game against Spassky in 1972? Were
you trying to create winning chances by complicating a drawn position?
A: Basically, that's right, yes.


In a courtroom, this kind of thing is referred to as "leading
the witness", and is disallowed because of its obvious
diversion from the idea of finding the _truth_.

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Truth be told, I'd wager that Fischer would love to have
6-0'ed Spassky, just as he had others, if for no other
reason than to erase the painful memories of all those
games where he had failed against Spassky in the past.

But in this game, where Spassky had White, he was not
allowed to dictate the course of the game; Spassky took
the unexpected course of not playing for a big edge as
White, not avoiding the possibility of a draw, not taking
any risk of loss (Fischer's specialty was winning as
Black, while other players settled for draws). It was
almost as if Fischer's magical powers of strong counterplay
had been rendered useless, "negated" in the style of
Petrosian.

Evans went into one of his typical spin-frenzies over this
game, falling into "denial" and bleating that Spassky had
"no" advantage, when he obviously did. The propagandist's
toolbox is again accessed in order to "change the subject"
from Fischer's miscalculation to the realms of match
psychology (pretending the blunder was so simple that
Fischer *must* have played it deliberately). In fact, the
refutation of Fischer's blunder required not one, but two
(or 100%) of the White pieces to retreat, and such retreats
are one of the most commonly overlooked ideas, and not
only by patzers. Nonbelievers need look no further than
Fischer's prior games against Spassky in order to find
other examples of him blundering, but Levy's book on
Fischer's early career gives a wider variety of examples.

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