Boris Spassky in grave condition

greenpawn34

Only Chess

25 Sep 10

greenpawn34

Joined: 06 May 08
Moves: 43363

25 Sep 10

Very sad news.

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6692

DivGradCurl

Joined: 24 Jun 10
Moves: 1686

25 Sep 10

These things always come in 3's I guess.

sonhouse

Fast and Curious

slatington, pa, usa

Joined: 28 Dec 04
Moves: 53335

29 Sep 10

I can imagine Boris and Bobby playing forever on the big chessboard in the sky. We should find a new constellation to name after them.

Paul Leggett

Chess Librarian

The Stacks

Joined: 21 Aug 09
Moves: 114269

29 Sep 10

Originally posted by sonhouse
I can imagine Boris and Bobby playing forever on the big chessboard in the sky. We should find a new constellation to name after them.

Rec'd.

Talisman

Joined: 20 Jan 07
Moves: 24894

29 Sep 10

Originally posted by sonhouse
I can imagine Boris and Bobby playing forever on the big chessboard in the sky. We should find a new constellation to name after them.

Hold on he's not gone yet.

bill718

Enigma

Seattle

Joined: 03 Sep 06
Moves: 3298

03 Oct 10

Originally posted by greenpawn34
Very sad news.

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6692

I agree, a sad day. Spassky was cast as an evil figure by the American press during the 72 match with Fischer. Few in America realized however Spassky was not interested in the cold war, or in politics. He was just a chess player. Even though he lost to Fischer, Spassky seemed. the more mentally stable of the two.

wormwood

If Theres Hell Below

We're All Gonna Go!

Joined: 10 Sep 05
Moves: 10228

03 Oct 10

incidently I've been going through his closed sicilian games the last few days, there's some great stuff in there. especially in the 60s and 70s he was simply lethal with it.

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?playercomp=white&pid=21136&eco=B25&title=Spassky+playing+Sicilian,+Closed+(B25)+as+White+