World Chess Championship 1972 | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-16

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00:02:02 1 Background
00:09:37 2 1970 Interzonal tournament
00:10:56 3 1971 Candidates matches
00:11:57 4 1972 World Championship match
00:12:09 4.1 Schedule and results
00:14:06 4.2 Games
00:14:15 4.2.1 Game 1: Spassky–Fischer, 1–0 (Nimzo-Indian)
00:16:32 4.2.2 Game 2: Fischer forfeits
00:17:54 4.2.3 Game 3: Spassky–Fischer, 0–1 (Modern Benoni)
00:19:23 4.2.4 Game 4: Fischer–Spassky, ½–½ (Sicilian Sozin)
00:20:16 4.2.5 Game 5: Spassky–Fischer, 0–1 (Nimzo-Indian)
00:22:18 4.2.6 Game 6: Fischer–Spassky, 1–0 (QGD Tartakower)
00:25:40 4.2.7 Game 7: Spassky–Fischer, ½–½ (Sicilian Najdorf)
00:26:39 4.2.8 Game 8: Fischer–Spassky, 1–0 (English Symmetrical)
00:27:40 4.2.9 Game 9: Spassky–Fischer, ½–½ (QGD Semi-Tarrasch)
00:28:25 4.2.10 Game 10: Fischer–Spassky, 1–0 (Ruy Lopez Breyer)
00:29:39 4.2.11 Game 11: Spassky–Fischer, 1–0 (Sicilian Najdorf)
00:30:51 4.2.12 Game 12: Fischer–Spassky, ½–½ (QGD Orthodox)
00:31:31 4.2.13 Game 13: Spassky–Fischer, 0–1 (Alekhine's Defense)
00:36:19 4.2.14 Game 14: Fischer–Spassky, ½–½ (QGD Harrwitz)
00:37:17 4.2.15 Game 15: Spassky–Fischer, ½–½ (Sicilian Najdorf)
00:38:59 4.2.16 Game 16: Fischer–Spassky, ½–½ (Ruy Lopez Exchange)
00:40:00 4.2.17 Game 17: Spassky–Fischer, ½–½ (Pirc Defense)
00:40:37 4.2.18 Game 18: Fischer–Spassky, ½–½ (Sicilian Rauzer)
00:41:12 4.2.19 Game 19: Spassky–Fischer, ½–½ (Alekhine's Defense)
00:42:19 4.2.20 Game 20: Fischer–Spassky, ½–½ (Sicilian Rauzer)
00:43:13 4.2.21 Game 21: Spassky–Fischer, 0–1 (Sicilian Taimanov)
00:45:20 5 Aftermath
00:48:28 6 In popular culture
00:50:25 7 See also



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SUMMARY
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The World Chess Championship 1972 was a match for the World Chess Championship between challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States and defending champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. The match took place in the Laugardalshöll arena in Reykjavík, Iceland, and has been dubbed the Match of the Century. Fischer became the first American born in the United States to win the world title, and the second American overall (Wilhelm Steinitz, the first world champion, became a naturalized American citizen in 1888). Fischer's win also ended, for a short time, 24 years of Soviet domination of the World Championship.
The first game was played on July 11, 1972. The last game (the 21st) began on August 31, was adjourned after 40 moves, and Spassky resigned the next day without resuming play. Fischer won the match 12½–8½, becoming the eleventh undisputed World Champion.

In 2016, former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov commented on the global significance of the match, saying: I think the reason you look at these matches probably was not so much the chess factor but to the political element, which was inevitable because in the Soviet Union, chess was treated by the Soviet authorities as a very important and useful ideological tool to demonstrate the intellectual superiority of the Soviet communist regime over the decadent West. That’s why the Spassky defeat [...] was treated by people on both sides of the Atlantic as a crushing moment in the midst of the Cold War.