Posted on 02/27/2025 6:09:05 PM PST by Libloather
Nice quote
Frog 🐸 is wrong
Spassky got to live a DIGNIFIED life after the chess match, while Fischer was a victim of the Neocons, decades ago, and was left without a home until Iceland took him in (where he later died).
mid- late 70s it was a surprisingly hard to beat on the higher levels
and it still works.
it came out about the same time the first led watches became affordable.
https://uniquewatchguide.com/led-watches.html
I’m pretty sure that is not true but I’ll look it up.
I don’t think they ever played a match. Individual games, yes.
I recall one match where analysts sweated it out while Fisher took a long time to move. The anylists projected this move and that move; and Fisher moved a piece from one side of the board to the other and sealed the win. The experts were amazed. So was I and millions who watched, as I recall on PBS.
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