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Botvinnik vs. Fischer

Botvinnik vs. Fischer

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Who'd win

Botvinnik is an ignored WCC, solid all around player that is tough to beat.

Fischer needs no intro., aggressive, makes spetacular moves

if those 2 were to play against each otherm who'd you expect to win more games out of 20?

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Hypothetically, both players at their peak? Fischer would have the edge.

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Botvinnik of course!

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They played one, very famous, game, of course. It was a draw. Fischer was black; a Grunfeld.

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Botvinnik would have lost the match, but won the rematch by default. 😉

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Originally posted by EmLasker
Who'd win

Botvinnik is an ignored WCC,
Botvinnik is ignored? Where is that coming from? He basically founded the soviet chess machine! Every GM speaks of him as the person who has laid down the roots of professional chess. He has played many famous WC matches. Almost every strong ex-soviet GM refers to him as his first master/coach up to Kramnik. He is not ignored, you're just ignorant that's all.

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Originally posted by David Tebb
Botvinnik would have lost the match, but won the rematch by default. 😉
Spot on DT.

I'd say Fischer. Both were great players but Botvinnik, by his own admission
had one failing. His tactical ability was not what it should have been.

Fischer nearly won their sole encounter cos Bot missed a tactic and in that
game Fischer had yet to reach his peak.

Fischer's weakness before 1972 was he relied so much a few openings.
He knew them well but players could prepare against them.

And there was possibly no one better at preparing for a match than the Bot,
especially in the re-match.

Come '72 and he unleashed a new bag of tricks. The QGD, which Spassky
was told to prep against but never did "Fischer won't play that."

Also the Alekhine and the Pirc popped up for the first time in '72.

So Fischer but there would have been a lot of draws.

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Hard to imagine a close match between the two. The pressure on Botvinnik would have been immense, and while he would have prepared better than Spassky did, he lacked Spassky's natural talent.

Botvinnik was exceptional in rematches however- the weight of the champions crown is always heavy.

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