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13th Chess Game Adjourned

The Atlanta Constitution Atlanta, Georgia Friday, August 11, 1972 - Page 3

13th Chess Game Adjourned
Reykjavik, Iceland (AP)— Bobby Fischer's devastating chess attack shoved champion Boris Spassky into what experts called a hopeless position Thursday night and Spassky adjourned the 13th game in the world title chess series.
“It is finished for Spassky,” said Yugoslav grandmaster Svetozar Gligoric. “He has only crazy chances tomorrow.”
The game resumes Friday with Spassky's 42nd move, already decided and handed to chief referee Lothar Schmid in a sealed envelope. Converting his dominating position into a win would give Fischer a commanding eight points to the Russian champion's five.
Fischer, a chess wizard from Brooklyn, N.Y., needs 12½ points in the 24-game series to wrest the crown from Spassky. The Russian needs 12 points to retain it, with a win worth one point and a draw worth half a point.
Fischer could now take the title with a run of draws. Spassky's wife, en route to Iceland to be with her husband, said in Copenhagen: “Of course Boris will win.”
Spassky took a full half-hour to decide his 42nd move. He left his seat, walked behind the curtains at the back of the stage, and—away from Fischer's eyes—wrote down the move. He sealed it, handed it to Schmid, and left.
Spassky's delay means that he has only 23 minutes for 14 moves Friday.
Under match rules, each player 2½ hours to complete 40 moves, and one hour for the next 16 moves.
Spassky also is under pressure from a Fischer pawn, one square from the last row and being converted into a queen—the most powerful piece. Both players lost their queens in an exchange on the 30th move.
Spassky inspired no confidence in his followers when he spent 20 minutes pondering his seventh move, a lot of time at that early stage.
After six moves, he had used 20 of the 150 minutes allotted for 40 moves. Fischer had used only five minutes, having prepared his line in advance in an attempt to seize the initiative.
Experts doubted that Spassky had played the Alekhine recently.
As Fischer moved out his kingside bishop to attack Spassky's central pawn structure from the flank—the typical Alekhine setup—the champion deviated with a totally new seventh move, bringing his queenside knight in front of his queen.
Spassky sealed his 42nd move and handed it to the referee. It will be played first when the game resumes Friday.
Fischer leads the series 7-5. Spassky, 35, opened the 13th game with the same move he used in winning the 11th game last Sunday—pawn to king four.
Fischer, 29, responded with the Alekhine defense, one he has used only give times in his career, instead of the Sicilian defense that Spassky cracked Sunday.
Spassky charged into the Alekhine defense with a kingside attack, but Fischer broke into the champion's lines and forced a queen exchange that left Spassky in a weak position.
Spassky's pawns continued to advance. Then a mistake on the 29th move drove him further into trouble.
Here are the moves:

13th Chess Game Adjourned

'til the world understands why Robert J. Fischer criticised the U.S./British and Russian military industry imperial alliance and their own Israeli Apartheid. Sarah Wilkinson explains:

Bobby Fischer, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech
What a sad story Fischer was,” typed a racist, pro-imperialist colonial troll who supports mega-corporation entities over human rights, police state policies & white supremacy.
To which I replied: “Really? I think he [Bob Fischer] stood up to the broken system of corruption and raised awareness! Whether on the Palestinian/Israel-British-U.S. Imperial Apartheid scam, the Bush wars of ‘7 countries in 5 years,’ illegally, unconstitutionally which constituted mass xenocide or his run in with police brutality in Pasadena, California-- right here in the U.S., police run rampant over the Constitution of the U.S., on oath they swore to uphold, but when Americans don't know the law, and the cops either don't know or worse, “don't care” -- then I think that's pretty darn “sad”. I think Mr. Fischer held out and fought the good fight, steadfast til the day he died, and may he Rest In Peace.
Educate yourself about U.S./State Laws --
https://www.youtube.com/@AuditTheAudit/videos
After which the troll posted a string of profanities, confirming there was never any genuine sentiment of “compassion” for Mr. Fischer, rather an intent to inflict further defamatory remarks.

This ongoing work is a tribute to the life and accomplishments of Robert “Bobby” Fischer who passionately loved and studied chess history. May his life continue to inspire many other future generations of chess enthusiasts and kibitzers, alike.

Robert J. Fischer, Kid Chess Wizard 1956March 9, 1943 - January 17, 2008

The photograph of Bobby Fischer (above) from the March 02, 1956 The Tampa Times was discovered by Sharon Mooney (Bobby Fischer Newspaper Archive editor) on February 01, 2018 while gathering research materials for this ongoing newspaper archive project. Along with lost games now being translated into Algebraic notation and extractions from over two centuries of newspapers, it is but one of the many lost treasures to be found in the pages of old newspapers since our social media presence was first established November 11, 2017.

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