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January 07, 1972 Chess The Province by Al Horowitz

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ChessChess Fri, Jan 7, 1972 – 34 · The Province (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) · Newspapers.com

Chess: Suttles-Spassky Game Replayed by Al Horowitz
The world titleholder Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, and Bobby Fischer of New York, the American challenger for the world championship, will meet in a match before the end of June. Belgrade was the highest bidder for the match, and it likely will be held there.
Below is a game played by Spassky against Duncan Suttles, the Canadian champion in the Canadian Open at Vancouver last year. The unusual game, a Pirc Defence, followed a deployment of Vasja Pirc, the Yugoslav master. It is more or less artificial, resembling the King's Indian. Technically, it is of the hypermodern school and its strategic aim is to provide free rein for both bishops.
This kind of chess pleases Suttles, particularly if he can manage to lend it his own kind of flourish.
Spassky, playing White, assumed a promising book line with 5. P-KB4 and median control. And with 13. P-Q5 he affirmed center control with pawns.
With 16. P-N3, White maintained a pawn barrier to keep out any hostile, minor-man intrusion. With moves 21. NxB and 22. P-B4 and 23. P-B5, White shaped a powerful wedge, which he converted to passed pawns and a weekend isolated alignment for Black.
After 27. BxP, White's pawns were supreme. But now Black could have infused new life into the mid-game acrobatics with 27. NxNP; 28. KxN Q-B2ch which would have been barely short of a triumphal “combino.” For Black's knight was en prise at K-B3.
Even so, 27. … NxNP; 28. KxN Q-B2ch; 29. K-N2 N-R4 with a head on … N6 and … B5 would have scared a Heruclean defender.
With 31. B-Q4 occupying the long diagonal, Black was in inevitable jeopardy. And being an exchange behind, Black saw his prospects fade.
With 38. RxN, Black had immolated much more than he could afford. And shortly he resigned.
In the United States chess championship of 1963-64, Fischer met Grandmaster Pal Benko, also in a Pirc Defense. Fischer giving free rein to his imagination, made short shrift of the defensive barrier. A sacrifice of material made the hostile king an easy target and a rook offer pinpointed the Black king until White invaded perforce.
The deployment was about the same as in the Spassky game above. But with 6. … B-N5. Black pinned White's knight, prepared to part with what is referred to as “the minor exchange.” After 8. QxB White has the two bishops. This presages an end game plus. But a sharp continuation cut short any resistance.
With 15. … K-R1 Benko misses his chance. 15. … P-KB4 was a better choice. Then 16. B-R6 Q-B3; 17. BxB QxB; 18. QxQch KxQ; 19. PxP N-3xP; 20. QR-K1 QR-K1; 21. N-K4 with a comfortable plus, but certainly without a forced victory.
The move 19. R-B6 really is the end. It is the key to Black's bastion, and it leaves open a mating net.
Some of the commentaries here are from My 60 Memorable Games by Bobby Fischer.

Boris Spassky vs Duncan Suttles
Vancouver op-CAN (1971), rd 6
Modern Defense: King Pawn Fianchetto (B06) 1-0
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1135901

Robert James Fischer vs Pal Benko
US Championship (1963/64), New York, NY USA, rd 10, Dec-30
Pirc Defense: Austrian Attack. Weiss Variation (B09) 1-0
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1008421

'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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