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Does anyone have the Spassky-Fischer game where Spassky won - the game where Spassky creates such a deep combination that Fischer cannot even comprehend it? The one that shows him at his best? I heard Spassky played a game where he created such a deep combination (like 13 moves or more deep) that even the greatest grandmasters still struggle with it until this very day. What game was that? I would love to analyze it and play through it on my board.

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Originally posted by powershaker
Does anyone have the Spassky-Fischer game where Spassky won - the game where Spassky creates such a deep combination that Fischer cannot even comprehend it? The one that shows him at his best? I heard Spassky played a game where he created such a deep combination (like 13 moves or more deep) that even the greatest grandmasters still struggle with it un ...[text shortened]... this very day. What game was that? I would love to analyze it and play through it on my board.
On internet you can find everything.

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Originally posted by Ravello
On internet you can find everything.
But you may need more information than just 'the game where Spassky beat Fischer with a long combo'. I have 10 wins by Spassky over Fischer and there's no way I'm looking through all of them to find which one powershaker is talking about.

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Originally posted by powershaker
Does anyone have the Spassky-Fischer game where Spassky won - the game where Spassky creates such a deep combination that Fischer cannot even comprehend it? The one that shows him at his best? I heard Spassky played a game where he created such a deep combination (like 13 moves or more deep) that even the greatest grandmasters still struggle with it un ...[text shortened]... this very day. What game was that? I would love to analyze it and play through it on my board.
Just a wild guess, but you may be referring to this game, which Kasparov analyzes in My Great Predecessors, vol 3, pp. 295-299.

I include the annotations by Ivkov, who annotated it for ChessBase.

[Event "Siegen ol (Men)"]
[Site "Siegen"]
[Date "1970.??.??"]
[Round "14"]
[White "Spassky, Boris V"]
[Black "Fischer, Robert James"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D87"]
[Annotator "Ivkov,B"]
[PlyCount "77"]
[EventDate "1970.09.??"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2001.11.25"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 Bg7 7. Bc4 c5 8.
Ne2 Nc6 9. Be3 O-O 10. O-O Qc7 11. Rc1 Rd8 12. h3 (12. Qe1) (12. f4 Bg4 13. f5
gxf5 14. Bxf7+ $5 Kxf7 15. Qb3+ e6 16. Nf4 Qd7 17. exf5 Na5 18. Qxe6+ Qxe6 19.
Nxe6 Nc4 $2 20. Bg5 Rg8 21. Rf4) 12... b6 (12... a6 13. Bb3 Na5 14. Bf4 Qd7 15.
dxc5 Nxb3 16. axb3 a5 $11) 13. f4 e6 14. Qe1 Na5 15. Bd3 f5 16. g4 {
Ivkov,B: ''!' Ivkov,B. '} (16. Rd1 $6) 16... fxe4 17. Bxe4 Bb7 18. Ng3 Nc4 19.
Bxb7 (19. Bf2 Bxe4 20. Qxe4 Nd2 21. Qxe6+ Kh8 22. Rfd1 Nf3+ 23. Kh1 Nh4 $17)
19... Qxb7 20. Bf2 Qc6 21. Qe2 cxd4 22. cxd4 b5 {Ivkov,B: ''~~' Ivkov,B. '} 23.
Ne4 Bxd4 (23... Re8 24. a4 a6 25. Nc5) 24. Ng5 Bxf2+ 25. Rxf2 Rd6 (25... Re8)
26. Re1 Qb6 {Ivkov,B: ''!' Ivkov,B. '} 27. Ne4 Rd4 28. Nf6+ Kh8 29. Qxe6 Rd6 {
Ivkov,B: ''!' Ivkov,B. '} (29... Rd1 $4 30. Qf7 Rxe1+ 31. Kg2 Qc6+ 32. Kg3 Re3+
33. Kh4 Rxh3+ 34. Kxh3 Qh1+ 35. Rh2 $18) 30. Qe4 Rf8 {Ivkov,B: ''??' Ivkov,B. '
} (30... Rad8 31. g5 Rd2 32. Ref1 Qe3 $11) 31. g5 Rd2 32. Ref1 (32. Ree2 $1 Nd6
33. Qe7 Rf7 34. Qxf7 $18) 32... Qc7 {Ivkov,B: ''??' Ivkov,B. '} (32... Nd6) 33.
Rxd2 Nxd2 34. Qd4 Rd8 35. Nd5+ Kg8 36. Rf2 Nc4 37. Re2 Rd6 38. Re8+ Kf7 39.
Rf8+ 1-0

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Originally posted by Wulebgr
Just a wild guess, but you may be referring to this game, which Kasparov analyzes in My Great Predecessors, vol 3, pp. 295-299.

I include the annotations by Ivkov, who annotated it for ChessBase.

[Event "Siegen ol (Men)"]
[Site "Siegen"]
[Date "1970.??.??"]
[Round "14"]
[White "Spassky, Boris V"]
[Black "Fischer, Robert James"] ...[text shortened]... Nd6) 33.
Rxd2 Nxd2 34. Qd4 Rd8 35. Nd5+ Kg8 36. Rf2 Nc4 37. Re2 Rd6 38. Re8+ Kf7 39.
Rf8+ 1-0
Yep! That's the one!!!

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Originally posted by Wulebgr
Just a wild guess, but you may be referring to this game, which Kasparov analyzes in My Great Predecessors, vol 3, pp. 295-299.

I include the annotations by Ivkov, who annotated it for ChessBase.

[Event "Siegen ol (Men)"]
[Site "Siegen"]
[Date "1970.??.??"]
[Round "14"]
[White "Spassky, Boris V"]
[Black "Fischer, Robert James"] ...[text shortened]... Nd6) 33.
Rxd2 Nxd2 34. Qd4 Rd8 35. Nd5+ Kg8 36. Rf2 Nc4 37. Re2 Rd6 38. Re8+ Kf7 39.
Rf8+ 1-0
Yep! That's the one!!!

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www.chessgames.com should have it... was this mate or did fischer resign coz i dont see the forced mate =(

i see Kxf8 then everything is fine for fischer again?

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http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1044698

do you 1 better actually 🙂

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If Kxf8, then Q-h8, puts Fischer in check, then takes his queen with his horse and game over after that. Anywhere his king would move, the horse would take the queen and he's still be in check. Great game by Spassky.

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Originally posted by stackola
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1044698

do you 1 better actually 🙂
Thanks stackola! 🙂

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Fischer never beat Spassky before the 1972 title match. Why did that Spassky not play Fischer?