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. (Parrthenon)
Help Bot is a chess ignoramus who keeps shifting ground
when his arguments are refued.
He claimed that Fischer wasn't playing for a win in a completely
drawn position with Bxh2 and then he falsely added that Spassky
stood better before Bxh2.
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. (Help Bot)
Once again this chess ignoramus mixes apples and oranges.
The Larsen issue did not involve double standards in any way.
Help Bot is all mixed up. America had nothing to do with the
USSR vs. World match in Belgrade 1970.
Fischer had been inactive for almost two years and Larsen
demanded to play first board against world champion Spassky
or he would drop out. Fischer reluctantly consented to play
second board against Petrosian in order to placate Larsen.
Finally, as it turns out, had Fischer taken that draw against
Gheorghiu, he would have won the gold medal ahead of Petrosian
even if the Russians didn't substitute Spassky for him on first board
in the 1966 Olympiad.
Setting the record straight against Help Bot's steady stream
of falsehoods and cockeyed opinions is a hopeless task.
P.S. It's sleazy not sleasy.
help bot wrote:
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.
-- help bot