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Bobby Fischer vs Boris Spassky for the The 1972 World Chess Championship. Taking a look at the history and the famous chess games, analyzed for beginners and intermediate players.
0:00 Intro
1:01 Game 1 + Drama
4:17 Game 3
9:03 Game 5
13:19 Game 6
20:25 Game 11
24:10 FINAL GAME
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Jimmy Carson? Oy vey, it’s JOHNNY CARSON
Bobby is legit like Sheldon Cooper, genius but a literal child
I watched pawn sacrifice…
bobby fischer is kinda my chess inspiration
I was 21 in 1972 and although not a chess ‘player’ I was fully immersed in the politics and mind games. How Bobby withstood all that pressure was unfathomable. But, as you so rightly say, the pressure on that gentleman Boris Spassky was equally oppressive. The games had the headlines in all newspapers across the world and deservedly so. Chess was like tiddlywinks to the uninitiated. I remember it well as one of the ‘sporting’ challenges of my lifetime and it alerted the world to the beauty of the game.
Steve
bobby fischer is probably who i consider to be the best player ever he went so far lerning alone
Boris Spassky seems like a gentleman.
130,000 and be crowned as world champion I’d want a sound prof room with no ppl as well.
The best game is Alekhine's Defense played by Fischer, too bad you didn't show it
There is a movie about this titled pawn sacrifice
And levy never wore that hoodie again
"an interview with Jimmy Carson" okay gotham XD
Amazing video, Just love the way how levy explains everything such enthusiasm
fischer is a true american. when he lost he asks something radiculous to win.
It’s October 2023 and that spoiler got me f*cked up
They mer again 20 years later in Yugoslavia in a show match and here Fisher won again.
I was hoping to find the actual video of them playing. Does the real video exist?..
Hey Levy, you probably won't see this, but it would be awesome to see you cover more Spassky games. He's honestly my favorite player, in his heyday of the 60's and 70's he was an absolute beast, he really was.
Interesting note: the position at 18:29 is used in the game Hitman (from 2016) as a way to assassinate a target, who just so happens to be an American chess player during the cold war. You move the Queen to G3, the target remarks it as a brilliant move (as in, "why hadn't I thought of that?") and proceeds to drink a bottle of vodka to celebrate. As you can assume, the bottle was poisoned. By you.
Mission accomplished!
I wonder if the Soviets were taking roids for chess too 😂
e4 the goat fischer knows his stuff
Such a good discussion below – Thanks, commenters! I was very young in '72, but remembered chess being in the news. Wasn't sure if it was a big deal to the general public, or just a big deal in our house because Dad was kinda nerdy. He tried to teach me, but i resisted. NOW im interested… but probably too old to learn to be competitive. Still keen tho & grateful for Levy's content.
21:35
When they play knight to b1 – its innovation, when you play it – its undeveloping
Why do I see unhinged Phil Heath in the ad ??
Only Bobby Fischer made the game of CHESS a worldwide interests by millions of people.
Nice pink shirt, ya twerp.
This might just be the greatest World Chess Championship match of all time.
Henry Kissinger talked him into going back, playing, and ultimately winning the most epic match in the history of the world. I dare say nothing that huge in chess will ever happen again.
Fischer behaviour was unpredictable . He was being abnormal. He made spassky to believe that he lost all confidence ( thus he loss twice ) . Then on 3rd match bam full confident. Spassky couldn't anticipate his move and losses multiple times.
23:01 cant the queen just go to e2?
I enjoyed watching.
Boris was very classy.
Did anybody win with white ?
Match of the century.
Do more of this 'chess history' video
Fun fact: If Bobby Fischer was alive today he would be older than Donald trump
Hello Gotham, first thank you for the page you really helped me in learning chess, i have a chess during the game 6, final move Qf4 to take the pawn, if spassky played Ch7 he will then have a fighting chess, cause queen wont be able to take the pawn and if fisher took the pawn castle take queen, then white castle take black castle but fisher will be left with castle and a bishop while spassky will be left with castle and queen right?
It’s a shame you didn’t cover the first Alekhine defense game which RFJ won
U are perfect at what u do man
Or maybe in the first game, he was so preoccupied with the stupid camera and lights that he wasn't thinking clearly when making that first blunder.
♟️ Chess is a dead god Cassia 🌹🌚👍 Rest in the Good News 🌹 Okay bye
The pink sweater deserves !!
Came from the stream 🙂
What kind of drugs is Fischer on? Don’t ask btw…😂
This was the match that started my affair with Chess. Still at it 50 years later, if not that much better!
19:55 I think he's referring to pawn sacrifice rather than queens gambit…
That profile picture tells many things
I'm thinking, yeah, I'm back. 😀 I love these classic matches.
Realrich