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href="https://www.rookhouse.com/author/admin/" title="Kevin Marchese">Kevin Marchese</a></span> on <abbr class="published" title="Friday, April 22nd, 2022, 6:44 pm">April 22, 2022</abbr> </p> <div class="entry-content"> <p><span style="font-family: book antiqua, palatino;"><strong><a href="https://www.rookhouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/spassky.jpg"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2147" src="https://www.rookhouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/spassky-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200" srcset="https://www.rookhouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/spassky-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.rookhouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/spassky.jpg 450w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a>Boris Vasiliyevich Spassky</strong> was born in Leningrad, Russia on January 30, 1937. He learned how to play chess when he was five years old and achieved the rank of International Master by the young age of sixteen. He was mentored in the early stages of his career by famed Soviet grandmaster Alexander Tolush.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: book antiqua, palatino;">In 1955 Spassky won the World Junior Championship in Antwerp, Belgium. That same year he attained the title of International Grandmaster (the youngest ever at that time) and qualified for his first Candidates tournament (tying for 3rd-7th). Over the next few years Spassky had some encouraging results, but also had his fair share of heartbreaking losses and too many second place finishes for his liking.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: book antiqua, palatino;">After much deliberation in the summer of 1961, Spassky parted ways with the aggressive methodology of Tolush and joined up with the strategist Igor Bondarevsky. The change in coaching philosophies paid immediate dividends, as Spassky won his first USSR Championship in December of 1961. He tied for first in at the same event in 1963, losing a playoff to eventual winner Leonid Stein.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: book antiqua, palatino;">At the 1964 Interzonal in Amsterdam, Boris tied for first place with Mikhail Tal, Bent Larsen, and Vasily Smyslov. He went on to defeat Paul Keres (+4 -2 =4), Efim Geller (+3 -0 =5), and long time nemesis Tal (+4 -1 =6) at the 1965 Candidates tournament, qualifying him as the next challenger to Tigran Petrosian’s world championship title.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: book antiqua, palatino;">The 1966 World Chess Championship match took place in Moscow, with Spassky losing by the most narrow of margins (+3 -4 =17). Undeterred, Boris would bounce back at the very next Candidates cycle in 1968, marching through his opponents (Geller, Larsen, Victor Korchnoi) to immediately earn another shot at Petrosian.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: book antiqua, palatino;">The 1969 re-match was very similar to their previous encounter, in that it was fiercely contested and close all the way to the end. This time Spassky prevailed, winning by a result of 6 wins, 4 losses, and 13 draws (game nineteen of the match is shared below). After many years of determination and struggle, he was finally the World Chess Champion …. but for how long?</span></p> <p class="rpbchessboard-spacerBefore"></p> <div class="rpbchessboard-chessgame"> <noscript> <div class="rpbchessboard-javascriptWarning"> You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization. </div> </noscript> <div id="rpbchessboard-6743f47770bde-1"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { function renderThisPGN() { RPBChessboard.renderPGN("rpbchessboard-6743f47770bde-1", {"pgn":"[Event \"Petrosian - Spassky World Championship M\"]\r\n[Site \"Moscow, Russia\"]\r\n[Date \"1969.06.04\"]\r\n[Round \"19\"]\r\n[White \"Boris Spassky\"]\r\n[Black \"Tigran Petrosian\"]\r\n[Result \"1-0\"]\r\n[ECO \"B94\"]\r\n[PlyCount \"47\"]\r\n\r\n1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5\r\n\r\n{In Petrosian\u2019s practice, this system, in which Black \u2018draws fire upon himself\u2019, is rather\r\nrare. Twelve years ago he played this way in several games from the Moscow\r\nChampionship; I also recall his encounter with Ivkov (Bled, 1961). \u2018From the\r\nside\u2019 it is difficult to draw a categorical conclusion, but it seems to me\r\nthat the Champion had decided that the match situation for his opponent, which\r\ndemanded a certain caution, was in opposition to the necessity for White, in\r\nthis variation, to play sharply and decisively. But perhaps… perhaps\r\nPetrosian\u2019s nerves had become frayed, and he decided to provoke a crisis. In\r\nmy view, prematurely.}\r\n\r\n6...Nbd7 7. Bc4 Qa5 8. Qd2\r\n\r\n{I recall two of Spassky\u2019s games on this theme. In the USSR Championship of 1958 he crushed Polugaevsky,\r\nobtaining a special prize for this victory, while in one of the Student\r\nOlympiads, associating White\u2019s attack with short castling, he lost to the\r\nAmerican Lombardy. 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Nor does White forcibly\r\nachieve success after 19.Nd5 Qd8. Admittedly, Spassky could have simply\r\nwithdrawn the knight from d4, and Black\u2019s position would not have been any\r\nbetter.}\r\n\r\n19. Rdf1 Qd8\r\n\r\n{Here 19…e5 is already worse on account of 20.Nde2, and the f7\u2013pawn is under attack.}\r\n\r\n20. fxe6 fxe6\r\n\r\n{Perhaps 20…Bxe6 was slightly better, so as to exchange at least one of the opponent\u2019s attacking\r\npieces. Instead now everything proceeds by force.}\r\n\r\n21. e5!\r\n\r\n{A far-calculated move. Introducing the c3\u2013knight \u2013 the last of his pieces that is not\r\nparticipating in the attack \u2013 Spassky proceeds to decisive action.}\r\n\r\n21...dxe5 22. Ne4! Nh5\r\n\r\n{The only defence. For the time being Black continues to defend the g7\u2013square.}\r\n\r\n23. Qg6!\r\n\r\n{Playing this move, Spassky had to foresee the finale occurring in the game, as well as the consequences of the reply 23…Nf4. 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