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Chess Wed, Apr 5, 1972 – 4 · The Signal (Santa Clarita, California) · Newspapers.com
News on the World Championships
Final details on the coming World Championship match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky have been worked out recently in Amsterdam.
The opening game will begin in Belgrade, Yugoslavia on June 22, with the following rounds of the twelve-game series scheduled there at three games per week. The match will then be adjourned and continued on Sunday, August 6 in Reykjavik, Iceland for the remainder of the games. The players will earn one full point for a win, and one-half point for a draw. The match will go to the first player winning 12½ points.
Fischer has already created some controversy by demanding a greater share of the profits of the match, which promises a total of $138,000 to the participants. Approximately two-thirds of this amount will go to the winner, the remainder to the loser.
The Hallmark of Spassky
Every prominent chess player has one game that demonstrates perfectly his hallmark. The hallmark of World Champion Boris Spassky is to be found in the game he played against Grandmaster Lev Polugaevsky, which was judged the most spectacular encounter of the 25th USSR Championship, played in Riga, in 1958. Spassky was only a challenger for the world crown at the time.
Boris Spassky vs Lev Polugaevsky
USSR Championship (1958), Riga URS, rd 2, Jan
Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation (B94) 1-0
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