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  • Personally, I could care less about his personal life, I just love what he did

    for chess. I really think he was a genius in chess. This pawn move was an

    offering of giving Spassky 1 game up. Because after this, he destroyed him.

    I think Fischer felt confident enough to give up a win and play mind games

    with him. The whole money thing afterwards proves that Fischer knew what

    he was doing in my opinion. He got the best of Spassky.

  • Que manera d perder una partida que era tablas de salón

  • @ArtificialRed1083 he didn't become wanted because he said all those stuff, he became wanted because he played a competitive chess match in some place which wasn't allowed.

  • That Fischer guy is that Bobby Fischer we are talking about?

  • que escribia cada vez que jugaba aver quien me responde me gustaria saber gracias :)

  • FISCHER ES Y SERÁ EL MEJOR... A NINGÚN JUGADOR A PARTE DE FISCHER SE LE OBLIGÓ A PERDER.

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  • In English-fischer gave an odd or handicap, Tagalog-partida, Spanish-handicap

  • Pero eso fue un error infantil, de los que ni siquiera Fischer era absolutamente inmune. Hasta yo me hubiera dado cuenta que no podía tomar el peón h2!

  • perhaps fischer was hoping to give spassky enough rope to hang himself with if he made a goof

  • trapped it

  • Still until today i don't understand why Fisher took that pawn....a move that is just not like him at all...he could have gotten the draw on that first game

  • What happened at the end of the game?, fischer stood up, and tried to shake Spassky's hand, and the man standing there said "NO" ???? Is that what happened?

  • @SleepIsMagic Yep, a great shame. Would have been nice to see Bobby smash The Foetus.

  • @SleepIsMagic Nothing to do with fear my friend... a person like Bobby who openly speaks what he believes despite the consequences (read the articles on line about him spitting on Bush's letter to him while in Yugoslavia to name but just one such courageous "move")....He basically asked the Chess federation to change some of their rules...which they later DID change because he was right in many aspects...At that time though they refused and Bobby basically said ...Fine then I won't play!!

  • One off the best chessplayers ever. Ah well, everybody loses some games

  • Theres not much i understand of this, i dont speak spanish, and there are no subtitles. seems to me some guy gives up his bishop.

  • @Shoei6m9 Yeah taking the pawn with the bishop was a mistake by Fischer because his bishop was trapped. Afterwards, Spassky took the bishop along with all of Fischer's pawns one by one. This was the first game. That's basically what the narrator said.

  • @Shoei6m9 read "Bobby Fisher Goes to War" and all is revealed. Fisher was a genius but unpredictable on and off the chessboard., Spassky was a gentleman, but got to like him , despite his antics.

  • @dunavbalkan thanks ill read the book at once, btw i made a short film about chess and documented some street musicians. i did watch your account, your interest in folkmusic is genuine, do u have any chessmatchess on youtube? greetings

  • @Shoei6m9 I like the Chessnetwork on You tube. Search for Chessnetwork.. learn a lot from there, but really am not so good at the game, was demoralised by internet chess last 5 years! I liked the book btw, learned a lot more from the Russian side than we knew at the time- good luck with your film. regards

  • the 9 peopole that dont like this dont know the 4 move mate :)

  • why is this in spanish lol????

  • @nanuka711 Because it's from a European perspective, btw his accent is European not American. For all I care, I can speak American Spanish but the weird thing is that European Spanish sounds too biblical....lol

  • text english, voice spanish omg f_uck you!

  • Spassky won the game. It was one of three he won in the match (one was a forfeit). Fischer won 7, the other 11 were draws.

  • i don't understand what happened at the end. Who won? Did Bobby walk out? Did someone give up?

  • Black should play the position like so - Bxh2 g3 Ke7 Ke4 Kd6 Kf3 Kc5 Kg2 Kxb5 Kxh2.

    Black has full compensation with an active king and potential for passed pawns.

    Best play can for both sides continues a5 Kg2 Kc4 Kf3 b5 Ke2 Kb3 e4 b4 axb4 axb4 Bd2 Ka3 Kd1 b3 Kc1 Ka2 Bc3 h5 f4 g5 e5 gxf4 gxf6 fxg3 f7 g2 Bd4 b2+ Kd2 g1=Q Bxg1 b1=Q f8=Q Qxg1 draws. Its a very instructive endgame to analyze. Fischer's sacrifice was as sound as they come.

  • was young and it seemed rather deep, I didnt get it then, but for some reason always remembered that comment...(while he was munching on noodles!)

    Now I'm old and realize he was right...it explains a lot of why some people get in ruts or unhappiness.

    I'm sad for his decline, but his words then are nice ones to remember anyway...

  • was young and it seemed rather deep, I didnt get it then, but for some reason always remembered that comment...(while he was munching on noodles!)

    Now I'm old and realize he was right...it explains a lot of why some people get in ruts or unhappiness.

    I'm sad for his decline, but his words then are nice ones to remember anyway...

  • At the time, the analyses was overwhelmingly in favor of a juvenile blunder. And the computers now say it's the right move????? How amazing is that!

  • esto es una chorrada el alfil tiene escapatoria como q el sol da luz

  • He did this on purpose of course, he didn't give a shit, he knew he was going to win in the end.

  • Fischer clearly lost his mind with the 2 moves Bxh2 and h5. He turned a certain draw into a simple win for Spassky.

  • Bobby Fischer= The Greatest of all time.

  • Respond to this video...

  • WTF just happened

  • yes speelman has analysed it to be the correct move ,,,,,i dreamt that fischer beat anand 6-0 yesterday spooky. Anyone coming to london to see Anand Carlsen and Kramnik all in the same tournament

  • Apparently all computers say that bishop takes pawn is actually the correct move.

  • Hi everyone. I have found that 29...Bxh2 is actually an amazing winning move.

    Fischer could have played 30. g3 Ke7 31. Ke2 Kd6 32. Kf3 Kc5 33. Kg2 Bxg3 34. Kxg3 Kxb5 and now black is winning here with his pawns.

    If anyone has any evidence to the contrary, check it on rybka and see if you can refute this line.

  • @philnoll

    Yes PhilNoll, you're absolutely right. And it appears that in your line, 33...Bxg3 is not even necessary. Black could win simply with 33...Kxb5 34.Kxh2.

    White loses so many tempos winning the trapped bishop that this game is just dead lost. I can't believe no-one has ever said this before.

  • I remember that blunder as if it were yesterday!

  • He is smart, but I want to set him on fire!

  • En España han censurado el video "Retrobites:Bobby Fischer(1963)" por sus opiniones sobre la mujer,pero la excusa es el CopyRight..¿Por favor,puede alguien volver a subirlo de alguna manera?.En ESPAÑA sufrimos la Dictadura Feminista del Ministerio de Igualdad

  • no it wasn't fischer didnt follow correctly admitedly, fischer wins the title anyways no biggy the first match is usually to not reval all noveltys and try to feel your opponent out/ get your brain into the match, and or tournement

  • How was right to play. If deep fritzed showed it to you, then share it with us too.

  • @Spassky37 It isn't a winning move, but actually Bxh2 g3 h5 Ke4 h4 Kf3 h3! Kg4 Bg1 Kxh3 Bxf2 Bd2 e5 Kg2 Bxe3 Bxe3 a6! the game is a draw

  • Amazing my friend deep fritz confirmed Bxh2 the strongest move! Fischer failed to correctly follow up.

  • @IkiriRiri

    Ha. Fritz didn't say Bxh2 is good move. The position is so simple that even us patzers can figure it out without the help of fritz.

  • @philnoll Was your Fritz friend set to optimum performance, like it's set to Benchmark? What about the amount of cache? Do it again, and give it 3 hours at least to think, and you'll see it will make that Bxh2. Others had tried it on other chess engines, like Rybka, Shredder, Deep Junior, and they said it gave the Bxh2 result. On a patzers note, yes, theoretically it was not a good move, as obviously the bishop would be trapped there.

  • Actually IkiriRiri, you may be right. After Bxh2 g3 Ke7 Ke4 Kd6 Kf3 Kc5 Kg2 Bxg3 Kxg3 Kxb5 black appears to be better, and maybe even clearly winning.

  • @IkiriRiri

    Wow. I didn't let fritz think that long, I just got in there and analyzed it. I think you're right. Bxh7 is not a blunder at all, in fact it offers black the best winning chances, so I guess you were right.

  • Hmmm ... Fischer was also subject to enormous pressure. He was dancing to the rythm himself had set having said that he would win over Spassky and those "Russians" (out of which only Spassky was really a Russian, since the rest were usually other people of USSR like Armenians, Latvians, Kazakis, Jewish, Georgians etc.). Yet Spassky being the only Russian he was not that popular among USSR responsibles for not being communist - he too was subject to enormous pressure.

  • ellinas?

  • Nai

  • I'm amazed that a player of Fischer's quality made such a bone headed play. most intermediate players such as myself would never fall for that

  • Bxh2 was a bad move

  • Es verdad que ese movimiento de Fischer fue inexplicable. Aunque Fischer empezó mal luego se recuperó y ganó el campeonato mundial. Y hubo partidas realmente espectaculares.

  • este es solo un video o hay otro en español que me explique los acontecimientos en aquella ocacion ?

  • Fischer was a patzer.

  • if i was spassky i wud do Kc7 and let the bishop do stuff

  • Really? Killing the bishop is fun.

  • By the way, correct grammar is "If I were Spassky,..."

  • Eeeh... Alien interference? Quantum telepsychological dimorphism impact? Why did the greatest chessplayer of all time do that? :S

  • I dont think fischer did not see that easy trap, of taking the pawn on h2, he did it on porpuse is the only explination i have....

  • 29...Bxh2 30.g3 h5 31.Ke4 h4 32.gxh4 Bd6 33.Bb2 Ke7 34.f4 Kd7 35.a4 Ke7 36.Bd4 a6 37.bxa6 bxa6 38.h5 Kd7 39.Bc3 f5+

  • Fischer's is one crazy genius! :D

  • @Thymonico  who won

  • @10starvideos Spassky won the first game.

  • 0:47 wtf... yes he did Bxh2 but you can't even see his hand make the move!

    Bizarre russian influence? illegal mind control, lost time through druggs in the chair? has anyone explained this.

  • Rybka 3 gives the move...Bxh2!!

    The same one fischer did!!

    YOUR AMAZING FISHY YOU GOT IT!!

  • What line of continuation does Rybka give then?

    Because Fisher lost the game.

  • It's a draw with perfect play... I can't post the analysis its too long message me if u want it

  • Ow just a draw with perfect play? But if he didn't sacrifed his biship he had an easy draw anyway i think?

  • Correct... many opinions have been offered as reason for Fischer's sacrifice. Some say it was a physcological ploy, aimed at showing Spassky that he wasn't content to draw EVER-not even in a completely drawn position. Others say he saw the draw and simply blundered. Maybe it was because he wanted to go 0-2 in the match and then when he started winning, it would shake up Spassky. Or, maybe Fischer was just insane!!

  • @Fupper16

    best comment ever!

  • Fischer was probably playing for the win. The idea was to advance the h pawn to try and free the pawn and to play the king over to the queenside to win the vulnerable pawns. Spassky could stop the h pawn advance with his king but then the queenside would be in jeopardy. Fischer would then march the queenside pawns for a win. Rybka gives draw but more depth shows that Spassky would still have won.

  • Fischer should have played Ke7 on the next move instead of h5. Perhaps he miscalculated the best order of moves or perhps he saw after Spassky played g3 that Ke7 would also failed and switched plans. Either way, the criticism of Bxh2 is vastly over exagerated when one actually sees the depth required to see the real mistake!

  • u r funny these are simple tactics

    nothing extraordinary

  • yes, even fritz gave that Bxh2. But fischer's follow was second best if not third.

  • Amazing footage! I thought Fischer was adamant there be no cameras throughout this. Was this filmed via hidden camera?

  • the first game was filmed and he demanded that the cameras be removed. When they werent he didnt show up for game 2 and I think after that they removed the cameras

  • after losing this match I believe Fischer lost his grip on reality as well

  • He did not lose the match!

  • i think that fisher did a riesgosa jugada but in a world tournement you can't do that !

  • whats that?

  • Fischer, wasn't a happy camper at the end.

  • Fischers edge in rating in 1975 would have been about 80 elo points over Karpov about the same as Kasparov over Kramnik in 2000.

    Fischer was superb but he was scared of losing until he was actually playing then ironically he was not scared and wouldplay on and onf or the win.

  • It's still a draw after Bxh2 with perfect play

  • Commas aren't periods son.

  • A comma belongs before the word "son."

  • You're right about that one. Fischer lost a piece, so it's a bad move. I'm no chess genius, but I can see that much. A calculation error is only a great move if a loss is the goal.

  • Fischer did this on purpose. It wasn't on accident or an overlook. Just a psychological move for him. Remember how many games he won after this.

  • Yeah sure...you always do that when you've never won a game against a guy :-)

  • An absurd blunder for such an amazing grandmaster. It must have been the cameras :)

  • not a blunder, but an extremely great move !

    he is telling Spassky that he's a rotten endgame player, giving himself the psychological edge.

    Or it could be a calculation error by Fischer, he's a human after all.

  • @BenBlunt1 A blunder it was. Fischer laughed at himself for taking the pawn after the game.

  • @BenBlunt1 not an extremely great move. It is a losing move.

  • @Ruxistico Its not at all a losing move. Played correctly, it gives Fischer the only winning chances and is a draw with perfect play.

  • @philnoll I have a 6-piece endgame tablebase, an 8 core computer, Rybka 4, Stockfish, Shredder and Fritz 12 - and I have to disagree.

  • @Ruxistico I have done the analysis myself and confirmed it with various computers. You can't always trust the score the computer gives, and I'm willing to play the position against any one of your engines to prove its a draw.

    Try setting up the position White: Ke5 Pa5, Pb6, Bg5 Black: Ka8 Pa6 Pb7

    That position is a dead draw, but since there's 7 pieces and no way to force trades, the computer registers this at +4 points.

  • @philnoll let's do that! Sounds like great fun. We'll set it up on Rybka-forum and then make a vid about the results.

  • @Ruxistico Okay, like a correspondence setting there? Sounds fun. I registered an account there called FilthyChess. Let's try it out.

  • @philnoll exactly. We play until we reach a tablebase. I think we should have a relaxed attitude towards time/move demands, since we are both busy people and we both want to find the correct result. If we can conclude anything with certainty it will be of historic value. I will get back to you when I've set up a profile for this game! May the best man win - no, may the truth prevail!

  • @Ruxistico I'll agree to that, except not every outcome is guaranteed to reach tablebases. Some positions we would have to just agree on a draw, or institute the 50 move rule.

  • @philnoll hey you 2 guys, let youtubers know the result when you're done please :)

  • @BenBlunt1 How is he telling Spassky he's a rotten endgame player?

  • @BenBlunt1 Interesting theory, but probably not. Spassky would have doubtlessly seen other games Fischer had played

  • Fisher: Bxh2?????? he give this game away,...!! to SPASKY

  • o yeahh :(

    fischer is my fav

  • his chess expertise would have eased a transition into the world of high stakes checkers...the current world champ is a big guy names billy bob who lives in alabama and wears overalls

  • LOL

  • Why did Bobby acted so UNthoughtful here? that cost him the game

  • 29 ... Bxh2 ?! ce coup n'est pas ridicule, il semble perdant mais le sacrifice du fou donne à Fischer 2 pions libres sur les colonnes E et G avec son roi au milieu de l'échiquier, même si le coup Bxh2 est douteux c'est la fin de partie approximative de Fischer (alors que c'est un de ses points forts) et la solidité de Spassky qui donne la victoire à ce dernier.

  • Fischer reminds me of a film featuring Tom Hanks, who played a character who had obsessive tendencies. But he was very good at what he turned his hands too. Fischer gave up chess in the same way Forrest gave up running.

  • Don't you love how Youtube takes the comments to videos and shuffles them like a deck of cards? It's not chronological, it's not threaded, it's in some weird hybrid order that defies explanation. Wonderful.

  • So many times I've posted a comment on a video but it never appears. Its so frustrating. Whats the reason?

  • you got to refresh the page you turnip

  • maybe the video author saw your comment and deleted it.

  • comments are filtered for quality before posting. if you want one to slip through you need to sound more intelligent. include statements like 'henceforth' and 'I do believe, good sir' and you'll be set

  • What was in Fisher's head when he captured that pawn on h2

  • The world will never know. Combine this with the forfeit on game #2 and it's almost as if Fischer was acting out the famous poem "Casey at the Bat", letting two balls whizz past him before rolling up his sleeves and knocking it out of the park. But unlike the Mighty Casey, Fischer did not strike out.

  • can anyone tell me wut there writting....

  • They write down the moves. Basically, "recording" the game.

  • They are writing down there moves.

    so they can analyze it when the game is finished.

  • And to be able to reconstruct the game in case of any accidental incident. In every important event since over 100 years chess games are recorded this way.

  • he's got nice hair.

  • dale ganas pinche bobby Fischer loco guey!! Good game on both sides to the bitter end!

  • for bobby it was reasonable that he never defend his title and did all to avoid the world championship against karpow.he was a great player but there is no doubt that he hadn't a real chance against him. he knowed good that karpow would have destroyed in that match.

  • People will thumbs down you for this, but I completely agree. Karpov seems to agree with you too, although he's very graciuos

  • Don't misunderstand me.I know that Fisher was a great Champion and i know what he did for the popularity of chess. He played a lot of awesome games. But he knew that Karpow was another category as Spasski and all of his former opponents.

  • "Soviet Grandmasters privately scoffed at Karpov's chances in 1975. Most pundits believed he would lose... and lose badly. . . . Karpov knew he could hardly draw a game with Fischer, never mind winning one or two games. His only chance was to disrupt the match. So a whole arsenal of tricks was worked out, designed to upset the sensitive American, unaccustomed to such methods." -- GM Lev Alburt

  • I know that! But how much tricks used fisher to confuse Spasski at the worldchampionship 1972??? Mind games have always been a part of chess.Fisher realized that he got a very serious opponent. It's not only my opinion Kasparows mentioned it also several times. Otherwise Fisher wouldn't put down his titel and go to retirement. Fisher was all but not a good sport.A defeat against Karpov would have destroyed him.

  • I'm not sure if Fischer raised objections to the cameras as a way of unsettling Spassky, or if he was sincerely distracted by the noise that they made. (Cameras in the early 70's were gigantic devices that made all sorts of noise, not like the slick digital devices we use today.) I'm sure that Fischer realized that Karpov was a very strong player as well, but I don't think he was afraid. Fischer was incapable of feeling the emotion of "fear" ... that's what made him great.

  • It was FIDE who refused to accept the "Cramer Proposal" for match format (first to 10 wins is champion, and a 9-9 score is a draw and the champ retains the title). In the end the FIDE delegates voted 35-32 against. That's a very narrow margin. Had two other countries accepted the Cramer proposal, the match would have happened. So who was running from whom?

  • The irony is that because Fischer got the cameras banned the only game we have on film from 1972 is this one where he admitted himself that he played like a fish. But not his epics like 3,5, 10, 13 or 6

  • The verdict on Bxh2 may be that the move draws. Anyway, I think it was a good practical chance. Fischer is under pressure in the endgame, even if it was drawn. I don't think I've ever heard Spassky renowned as an endgame master, but it still looks pretty difficult for black.

  • increible

  • God i love chess but not like that in the obsessed way If anybody wanna play me hit me up

  • this is a mistake that even the non grand-master can see

  • As Spassky himself has said, it wasn't anything but a very risky attempt by Fischer to unbalance the game and gain winning chances. So many articles have been written about this move - a mistake? Definitely. Genius in action? Definitely. A non-GM wouldn't even have considered it, and that's why they'll never be World Champion. Unlike Fischer, natch ;-)

  • I don't think that a non-grandmaster would have never considered it! Many National masters would have probably considered such a move and would have seen it leads to loss after a bit of analysis. Probably top grandmasters would have abandon this sacrifice by first glance. Fisher is probably the second best chess player (for me Garry is the best) but he suffered a bad illness. He always considered he was invisible!!! If in chess you don't have a rational understanding of danger then you lose :)

  • What about karpov?

  • Karpov was great. One of my best actually! His play did not have that universal appeal and besides his striking positional skills and endgame mastery he was never the most impressive player! Anand, Topalov and some of the new generation are probably already candidates for 2nd-3rd positions. When Karpov made a move almost everyone could understand the reason it was made.

  • Some said that some of his moves were so deep postitional that NO ONE could understand them.

  • My girlfriend always says I'm deep positional. I never knew what she meant.

  • this video is about chess, don't flood here =.=. and keep ur hate, noone cares about it, it's harmfull for yourselves.

  • whats so bad about jewish people you asshole?!

  • what is so good about them? they come to your country, rule it, after sell it :D. there is a good phrase in jewish community, it says "if jews will build their own country one day they sell it".

  • Funny, I've never ruled nor sold a country. Sounds like a board game.

    PS Black-and-white thinking works primarily in chess and few other places. Just a thought.

  • maybe u ask your parents then? it's a jewish quote =).

  • u motherfucking son of a bitch!!! every jew is more than a houndret times betta than u crappy piece of shit!! and adolf hitler was a gay tiny asshole and he didnt even desere it to breath the air of a jew! (for everyone who reads this,...i'm not a jew)

  • then you are an idiot :D.

  • fischer was a genius at the cheessboard and no where else. fools who comment on his high IQ as if it signified some kind of universe intelligence only make jackasses of themselves. stop deifying him as if his talent at the board translated beyond it. he was a venomous fool.

  • Dzzz. Ellston Come on.. Bobby Fischer a fool? Its very commun 2 see genious going wild.. Bobby fischer had 170 Iq .. (He did some test) And by the way he was playing chess. There is no way he can be stupid . lol

  • fischer died with his hatred for the jews, so dont speak senseless

  • seka: you know that fischer was ANTI USA and ANTI JEWS?!

    i guess not!

  • Al final gano

  • Good, even better!

  • Fischer will always be the best chess player in world...dead or not...no one is better...I wish he was still alive and still playing so he could crush Kasparov and all those other top knotch gm's in games straight

  • WORD UP!

  • thats right, it will be a long time before we see anyone as good, but its safe to say he will be an american as well.

  • Where is your evidence for that?

  • WTF? jajajja nooooooo! no puede perder asi,

    que mala jugada, aunque fue un buen intento para

    provocar al oponente

  • Spassky's hair wins.

  • White as like a .1 ercent advatage i think and spasky got creamed

  • i may be stupid... but how did he win???

  • white queens easy after he sacrifices his bishop for the pawn

    im surprised spassky made such a bad mistake there at the end