wrote:
Bxh2?!?

The first match game against Spassky in 1972 wasn't
the only time that Fischer tried to win a drawn position
and lost. He refused a draw against Florian Gheorghiu
at the 1966 Chess Olympiad in Havana, which cost
Bobby the gold medal on board one.

See NEVER ON SUNDAY

http://wcn.tentonhammer.com/print.php?sid=684


Interesting. But it doesn't mention the game with
Gheorghiu. And in fact, the reason Fischer did not
get the gold medal is not that his winning percentage
was clobbered by refusing to draw a game, it was
because the Russians pulled Petrosian and this
"protected" his amazing winning percentage from
any threat, such as, say, one Bobby Fischer! Why
anyone would consider him a threat, is beyond me.

Both players had an amazing winning percentage,
separated by less than one percent. I noticed that
Evans derides the Russians' tactics as though this
sort of thing were, let's say, sleasy. Yet when the
Americans "stacked the ladder" by playing Larsen
against Spassky (who Fischer had trouble against),
it seems completely acceptable to Evans, who made
no similar complaints. There is no standard quite
like the DOUBLE standard.


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