On Mar 26, 12:51 pm, Mike Murray wrote:

This is an overall record of +15 -0 =13. Surprising to me that
Spassky seems never to have lost with the KG in serious play. And his
opponents include Averbakh, Bronstein, Fischer, Najdorf, Kholmov,
Portisch, Seirawan and Korchnoi, all-time greats every one.

Hmmm. Will Phil now back off on the ignorant proclamations he made
earlier in the thread or continue to bluster and evade? If I were a
bettin' man, I know where I'd put my money.


I'm "all-in" on nearly-IMnes continuing to
bluster.

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However, I would guess that in constructing
that database, "brilliant wins" were favored,
and there's a decent chance that some
losses by GM Spassky were simply omitted,
and maybe even some boring draws.

I believe that the fallen hero played quite a
few games in Europe, eventually dropping to
a low of somewhere around 2500 FIDE, and
it seems likely that he may have drawn more
than a few King's Gambits during that period,
even lost one or two. Somewhere out there
(no, I'm not leading into a song...) is a
database containing many more games by
Boris Spassky than just these few. (Heck,
maybe he just switched to being a die-hard
1.d4 player... ).


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