I agree. He was one of the best players of the 20th century, and in addition to that, he is a cultured, well educated, gentleman unlike his nemesis Bobby Fischer.
@@ChristopherRuggiero-mm4ky On the internet and when talking about historical significance, it is Always Fischer, Kasparov, Carlsen that are considered top tier. There are many World Champions that are not as popular like Smyslov and Euwe
This was a wonderful analysis of a very complicated game. Spassky's sacrifice was completely unexpected and threw Averbakh off but in the ending he produced his own magic! An extensive analysis was called for and the length is appropriate. I love your channel and will recommend it to friends! I used the be an active chess player in my youth in the 1970s and early 1980s in Yugoslavia. I remember analyzing many of the games you present from earlier periods. Your presentation of the Botvinnik - Bronstein match was superb. Consider presenting the Kotov - Gligoric game from the Zurich tournament - an early example of a double pawn sacrifice for blockade on the dark squares. And also Gligoric's invention of the Mar del Plata variation in the King's Indian against Najdorf!
Wow you explanations are the best, i could follow most of it. You don't rush and are poised and clear, i like it. Some others speak very fast to look like they can think fast but actually they're maybe hiding less understanding. You are like extending my view into a level i don't have and i can get a true impression of how it feels to play at a higher level which i couldn't from others. Well done. Suscribed.
sooner or later this channel will be one of the best chess channel in the world. How you explain the opening, mid game Ideas and all the tension really remarkable. thank you so much that's all I can say.
Unfortunately Spassky is remembered today only for having lost the world title to Fischer in 1972. But Spassky was a truly exceptional player, and deservedly led the Soviet national chess team for many years... and Tal, Petrosyan, Taimanov played there ...a great player
@@andreitiberiovicgazdovici He is most notably remembered for that by and large, but once one gets more “mature” as a chess player, they don’t have that opinion anymore. I felt that way a few years ago but when I think of Spassky now I honestly rarely think about his loss of that match and more of how powerful of a player he was, as well as the fact that he admitted he wasn’t that interested in defending the crown anymore by that point
Great stuff, i like the analysis and it's good that it's long and detailed, you really explain all the important aspects and the tactics and dynamics of the game so well
An amazing game and a very good analysis. Spassky‘s advantage after the stunning sacrifice: a plan and activity. Interestingly he gives this advantage back after winning back material and now it is White who has a plan and active figures. The icing on the cake is that the longtime passive Knight suddenly becomes a strongpoint, together with the active King. Very entertaining game and lots to learn! Thanks!
Loved the analysis with the understanding of probabilities shown as calculations by the participants considerations .. the hour long pause comment correctly emphasized .. and highlighted errors .. the length of the video is respective to the complexity of the match and deserves its due .. thanks
I saw this game many years ago and I just took it for granted that the sacrifice was good because the annotator said so and black managed to draw the game, but I didn't understand the move at all. Now I can actually understand it, looking at it today.
c4 by Spassky after Bxe5 and Yuri Re4 is what the GM should do !! Dynamic piece harmony with pawn storm is what I expected. Spassky is 19, years old here in 1956
I don't see this move as anywhere close to the best move in chess. Curious what further analysis of that position will yield [not that this is so important either].
Acesta este șahul adevărat și nu blitzurile promovate activ din ziua de azi. Eu am ca favoriși pe: Paul Keres, Max Euwe, Boris Spassky, Alexander Kotov și Anatoli Karpov.
Important context for this game is that Averbakh played precisely the same line, all the way until 13. g5, 2 years prior to this game against Oscar Panno. Panno played 13...Rf7 instead of ...Qd8 and the game continued 14. Bg4 Qd8; 15. Bxc8 Qxc8; 16. Nf3 Bf8 with white winning in 31. Therefore Spassky can hardly not have been prepared for this. It thus seems to me highly likely that the 16...Nc6 sacrifice was pre-game analysis. Averbakh played precisely the moves that could be predicted from the previous game and substituting ...Nc7 for ...Rf7 can be seen as preparing the planned ...Nc6 idea. Therefore calling it the greatest move in chess history is to me just wrong. But the idea of preparing deep opening novelties like this was relatively new in 1956 so it is easy to understand why others might think that way at the time. In the modern game, such prep is commonplace. You could give 100 or more prepped computer moves a similar moniker and be equally (in)correct.
@@mathswithgarry7104 Sure, a great move, just like the other 100+ great moves from prep I mentioned. But the greatest? For that I don't think you can take prep but should instead look at one of the great OTB visionary moves. It is not like there is a shortage of these to choose from.
Absolutely superb game. Probably not up to the Queen sacrifice level of Fischer vs Burn's game purely because the result was a drawn game. Furthermore, both players had the opportunities to win and was missed by both. I swear I would love to see how Fischer would do against Spassky in this same scenario.......!!! (I strongly feel Fischer would win because of his relentless attack MO). Been a new Chess student at 50+ with a score of probably under 400 atm (with potential improvements), I don't think I have the authority to make any recommendations. However, I was surprised to see the White took the Black Knight even after 1 hour of thought! Even as an L plater under score of 400, I would immediately smell a rat in the Black knight move. A great and complex game, far beyond my abilities.
Yes, Bf6 is perfectly playable, however, this move doesn't create any threats, as Black cannot capture the g5 pawn next move - if he captures with the rook, a pair of rooks would be exchanged, while Black needs both of his rooks to create the counter play on the queenside. And if Black captures the g5 pawn with the bishop, White plays Rh5 and the bishop would fall next move.
Couple of things. Firstly that sacrifice was pretty obvious to spot in this video. Because you had already given us the hints regarding what Black's problems were. So for grand masters i m sure that's not a very hard move to spot. Secondly, black could have gotten the b5 pawn break in if he was willing to sacrifice some material. White was basically just playing for one side of the board. infact, just one file actually. So he really didn't have any prepration or defence on the other side.
Chess is so much better in the Russian accent! Better cuntrol of tyektikal variations too.🕊️ And note you didn't mention the other possible square for the Black king in Averbakh's winning option: 27 Rh8+ Bxh8 28 Rxh8+ *Kf7* 29 Rxb8 f3 which I think is met with the nice forking sacrifice 30 Nxe5+! opening up 31 Qh5+ 1-0
In this case the white queen would capture the f4 pawn with a check, which leads to checkmate - 28...Kf7 29. Rxb8 f3 30. Nf4 exf4 31. Qxf4+ Kg7 32. Qf8+ Kg6 33. Qh6+ Kf7 34. Qh7#
I love that sacrifice. That knight was incredibly useless, and yet, deploying it as fodder for the white center pawn created a real counterattack for black
Great review of the famous game. However, some important points were not shown. On the 17th move the Knight's sacrifice should be taken, but intermediate 17.h6 or even pawn exchange 17. hg6 were better. After 20... Rb8 there were two better ways to defend b2. 21. 0-0-0! or nice 21. Qh3!?. After mistaken 21.Nd1? white were too passive to have good progress, but still winning. 24.0-0! was a good option compared to 24.Bc3 And of course 27.Rh8! wins immediately, but Averbakh played 27.Bd4, still winning , then luckily, he finds that ingenuity in the endgame.
Spassky was about to be suffocated. When in extreme need good ideas often duck up. But he knew Averback was an endgame specialist, he had to avoid it going that way.
Hello chessplayers around the world. I´m just tryin´to establish a new type of chess called "Double-draw". The simple point of it is to eliminate blacks disadvantage of being a step behind all the time. The rules is as follows : White starts as usual with one draw then black makes two consecutive draws followed with two draws for white and so it continues throughout the game. You are only allowed to check on your SECOND draw and you have to use two DIFFERENT pieces for the double draw unless of course you´re only left with the king. I tried this just recently in a IRL game so I don´t really know if there are any illogicality that might occur due to the rules in more complicated positions. Please try with your friends and let me know what you think ; but you have to play IRL games as you can´t find this on internet. Yet!
When you say "draw" do you mean "move"? I've seen "double chess" where each side has 2 moves in a row, but white must either win or draw with best play. Your modifications look interesting to make the game more even.
I've just found this on Wikipedia: "A fork of the king and queen, the highest material-gaining fork possible, is sometimes called a royal fork. A fork of the enemy king, queen, and one (or both) rooks is sometimes called a grand fork. A knight fork of the enemy king, queen, and possibly other pieces is sometimes called a family fork".
I do not agree, I have seen games which are much more innovated. This game had real blunders by both players. Spassky approach was just a normal use of errors due his opponents' mistakes later after his. I think both players were true grandmasters but this game in not exceptional. Donald Byrne's loss to Robert Fischer is one of the greatest games in chess history. And there are many more examples. Always nice to win a lost game, I have done so myself! USCF NM
thanks for thinking a world champion is a true grandmaster. what would the world be if you didnt think so. you are truly our saviour i shall express our gratitude in behalf of humanity
Yeah, that was a possible plan. The problem is, f3 weakens the e3 square and after white moves the d1 knight (which was also defending the e3 square) to f2, the black knight can invade e3 via c2 (with a check) attacking the white queen and the c4 pawn. That might be one of the reasons White played Rh2, to take under control the second rank, and prevent Nc2+.
Who is winner is none other than Boris Spasky Boris Spasky just acting like a child against Bobby Fisher after first game wining by Spasky Fisher crying like a child but not against genius Spasky so Spasky surrendered to a child like Bobby Fisher afraid of Anotoly Karpov because he has no own brain
spassky is such an underrated chess player, it sucks that he’s only remembered for his loss against fischer
Absolutely he is definitely one of the best of all time... His game against Bent Larson is incredible
I agree.
He was one of the best players of the 20th century, and in addition to that, he is a cultured, well educated, gentleman unlike his nemesis Bobby Fischer.
My favorite thing about him was how he played some unsound gambits at the top level and won
He's not underrated. Considered one of the best ever. Ask a Russian if he's underrated. Terrible comment
@@ChristopherRuggiero-mm4ky On the internet and when talking about historical significance, it is Always Fischer, Kasparov, Carlsen that are considered top tier. There are many World Champions that are not as popular like Smyslov and Euwe
This was a wonderful analysis of a very complicated game. Spassky's sacrifice was completely unexpected and threw Averbakh off but in the ending he produced his own magic! An extensive analysis was called for and the length is appropriate.
I love your channel and will recommend it to friends! I used the be an active chess player in my youth in the 1970s and early 1980s in Yugoslavia. I remember analyzing many of the games you present from earlier periods. Your presentation of the Botvinnik - Bronstein match was superb. Consider presenting the Kotov - Gligoric game from the Zurich tournament - an early example of a double pawn sacrifice for blockade on the dark squares. And also Gligoric's invention of the Mar del Plata variation in the King's Indian against Najdorf!
Thank you very much! I appreciate it.
,dddr
Wow, one of the best chess videos on TH-cam. Keep making videos, you are amazing!
Thank you very much!
WOW, really amazing explanation, I would love to see more videos about soviet players, like Spassky, Korchnoi etc. Thank You!
My pleasure! A video about Korchnoi is coming soon.
Wow you explanations are the best, i could follow most of it. You don't rush and are poised and clear, i like it. Some others speak very fast to look like they can think fast but actually they're maybe hiding less understanding. You are like extending my view into a level i don't have and i can get a true impression of how it feels to play at a higher level which i couldn't from others. Well done. Suscribed.
Thank you for your kind words.
Tottally agree.
Suscribe x2
sooner or later this channel will be one of the best chess channel in the world. How you explain the opening, mid game Ideas and all the tension really remarkable. thank you so much that's all I can say.
Thank you very much for your kind words.
@@chesswisdom you are welcome Sir
What a beautiful and complex game. Genius of Spassky deserved him to become the world champion sooner and last longer. Thank you for game of the day
My pleasure.
I really like your analysis
Unfortunately Spassky is remembered today only for having lost the world title to Fischer in 1972. But Spassky was a truly exceptional player, and deservedly led the Soviet national chess team for many years... and Tal, Petrosyan, Taimanov played there ...a great player
@@andreitiberiovicgazdovici
He is most notably remembered for that by and large, but once one gets more “mature” as a chess player, they don’t have that opinion anymore. I felt that way a few years ago but when I think of Spassky now I honestly rarely think about his loss of that match and more of how powerful of a player he was, as well as the fact that he admitted he wasn’t that interested in defending the crown anymore by that point
An enthralling video, thanks... one of the best chess vids I've ever watched!
Thank you!
Great stuff, i like the analysis and it's good that it's long and detailed, you really explain all the important aspects and the tactics and dynamics of the game so well
Very nice commentary on a beautiful game.
Very good commentary. Completely changed my mind on Spassky.
An amazing game and a very good analysis. Spassky‘s advantage after the stunning sacrifice: a plan and activity. Interestingly he gives this advantage back after winning back material and now it is White who has a plan and active figures. The icing on the cake is that the longtime passive Knight suddenly becomes a strongpoint, together with the active King. Very entertaining game and lots to learn! Thanks!
My pleasure!
Liked your explanation .. arrows ... First time watched a complete chess game 😅👏🏿
Nice analysis. This game was impressive. Thank you for present us with your knowledge.
My pleasure.
I am so happy that I found your channel. I am learning so much by watching your videos. Great analysis!
I am also happy that the channel found you!
Love it. Hope to see more from you
Very nice match and really good analysis. Thank you
My pleasure.
Loved the analysis with the understanding of probabilities shown as calculations by the participants considerations .. the hour long pause comment correctly emphasized .. and highlighted errors .. the length of the video is respective to the complexity of the match and deserves its due .. thanks
Superb insight, presentation, rhythm, and of course game.
Good game and well presented. Thanks.
Thank you.
Very good instructive chess video!
One of the most instructive games Ive ever seen
I saw this game many years ago and I just took it for granted that the sacrifice was good because the annotator said so and black managed to draw the game, but I didn't understand the move at all. Now I can actually understand it, looking at it today.
One Soviet GM said of NC6 "I would rather resign than play such a move"
Great video and great sacrifice
An exemplary game to study chess strategy and tactics. You cannot find such gems of games under time control.
Thanks a lot, great analysis. :)
My pleasure.
really good analysis :D thank you shukran❤
My pleasure.
Both Averbakh and Spassky were so good players it is insane they are too underrated
a great game, nicely explained.
Great Video! Thanks for sharing!
My pleasure!
Wow this is an amazing game. Inaccuracies and magic on both sides of the board. Knight woke up just to be sacrificed
brillant analysis
2:10 - After 9. a4, Lichess analysis [as i am following along} wants Re8. It wants:
10. h3 e6 11. Nf3 Qd8 12. O-O exd5 13. exd5 Nbd7 14. Bf4 Nf8 15. Bd3 Bf5 16. Bxf5 gxf5 17. Nd2
It was also looking at Qd8 and the continuation of:
10. h3 Re8 11. Nf3 e6 12. O-O exd5 13. exd5 Ne4 14. Nxe4 Rxe4 15. Bg5 Bf6 16. Bd3 Re8 17. Bf4
Very beatiful game indeed!
This is probably one of the most exciting games I ever seen, it only lacked a winner! But otherwise it was a real thriller
Averbakh lived to be 100, and played chess right up to the end
in The future, many will live to be 100 and play Minecraft right up to the end
@@FenceThisBut Aurbach lived up to 100 and played chess right unto the end.
Hell yeah. I always joke about elderly homes for òur generation having gaming pcs and 8k tv with a bunch of streaming services@@FenceThis
@@BREAKocean 😀
c4 by Spassky after Bxe5 and Yuri Re4 is what the GM should do !! Dynamic piece harmony with pawn storm
is what I expected. Spassky is 19, years old here in 1956
I don't see this move as anywhere close to the best move in chess. Curious what further analysis of that position will yield [not that this is so important either].
Acesta este șahul adevărat și nu blitzurile promovate activ din ziua de azi.
Eu am ca favoriși pe: Paul Keres, Max Euwe, Boris Spassky, Alexander Kotov și Anatoli Karpov.
Brilliant play .
Excellent! The length is not too long.
Important context for this game is that Averbakh played precisely the same line, all the way until 13. g5, 2 years prior to this game against Oscar Panno. Panno played 13...Rf7 instead of ...Qd8 and the game continued 14. Bg4 Qd8; 15. Bxc8 Qxc8; 16. Nf3 Bf8 with white winning in 31. Therefore Spassky can hardly not have been prepared for this. It thus seems to me highly likely that the 16...Nc6 sacrifice was pre-game analysis. Averbakh played precisely the moves that could be predicted from the previous game and substituting ...Nc7 for ...Rf7 can be seen as preparing the planned ...Nc6 idea.
Therefore calling it the greatest move in chess history is to me just wrong. But the idea of preparing deep opening novelties like this was relatively new in 1956 so it is easy to understand why others might think that way at the time. In the modern game, such prep is commonplace. You could give 100 or more prepped computer moves a similar moniker and be equally (in)correct.
Surely it was a great move, regardless og whether it was prepared or not.
@@mathswithgarry7104 Sure, a great move, just like the other 100+ great moves from prep I mentioned. But the greatest? For that I don't think you can take prep but should instead look at one of the great OTB visionary moves. It is not like there is a shortage of these to choose from.
Well explained.
Absolutely superb game. Probably not up to the Queen sacrifice level of Fischer vs Burn's game purely because the result was a drawn game. Furthermore, both players had the opportunities to win and was missed by both.
I swear I would love to see how Fischer would do against Spassky in this same scenario.......!!!
(I strongly feel Fischer would win because of his relentless attack MO).
Been a new Chess student at 50+ with a score of probably under 400 atm (with potential improvements), I don't think I have the authority to make any recommendations. However, I was surprised to see the White took the Black Knight even after 1 hour of thought! Even as an L plater under score of 400, I would immediately smell a rat in the Black knight move.
A great and complex game, far beyond my abilities.
Nice. Very nice!
Superb!
After such analysis it’s getting clear that computers destroyed the spirit of old good chess
In blitz at the top level you still some craziness he engine wouldn't agree with. Magnus sacrificed his queen in a crazy game against anish
KID, Boris Spassky, Legendary material
What a game
This game indeed changes everything.
Defender in this game was fantastic
Merci .
My pleasure.
A really great game of Spassky.
I understood every word. And I'm not a great chess player.
Spassky been real quiet since vidits king sacrifice
@ 17:23 couldnt Spassky play bishop to f6 or no because he is down material already?
Yes, Bf6 is perfectly playable, however, this move doesn't create any threats, as Black cannot capture the g5 pawn next move - if he captures with the rook, a pair of rooks would be exchanged, while Black needs both of his rooks to create the counter play on the queenside. And if Black captures the g5 pawn with the bishop, White plays Rh5 and the bishop would fall next move.
@@chesswisdom ok ty for clarifying
My pleasure.
Couple of things. Firstly that sacrifice was pretty obvious to spot in this video. Because you had already given us the hints regarding what Black's problems were. So for grand masters i m sure that's not a very hard move to spot. Secondly, black could have gotten the b5 pawn break in if he was willing to sacrifice some material. White was basically just playing for one side of the board. infact, just one file actually. So he really didn't have any prepration or defence on the other side.
Chess is so much better in the Russian accent!
Better cuntrol of tyektikal variations too.🕊️
And note you didn't mention the other possible square for the Black king in Averbakh's winning option:
27 Rh8+ Bxh8 28 Rxh8+ *Kf7* 29 Rxb8 f3 which I think is met with the nice forking sacrifice 30 Nxe5+! opening up 31 Qh5+ 1-0
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Wicked game
Nice school chess !
(12:37) Kg7 - why not Kf7 - since then there would have been no pin on the d4 knight (13:05)?
In this case the white queen would capture the f4 pawn with a check, which leads to checkmate - 28...Kf7 29. Rxb8 f3 30. Nf4 exf4 31. Qxf4+ Kg7 32. Qf8+ Kg6 33. Qh6+ Kf7 34. Qh7#
Thank you so much for spending some of your valuable time to please this engine- and clueless enthusiast rookie.@@chesswisdom
My pleasure :)
I love that sacrifice. That knight was incredibly useless, and yet, deploying it as fodder for the white center pawn created a real counterattack for black
Great review of the famous game. However, some important points were not shown. On the 17th move the Knight's sacrifice should be taken, but intermediate 17.h6 or even pawn exchange 17. hg6 were better. After 20... Rb8 there were two better ways to defend b2. 21. 0-0-0! or nice 21. Qh3!?. After mistaken 21.Nd1? white were too passive to have good progress, but still winning. 24.0-0! was a good option compared to 24.Bc3 And of course 27.Rh8! wins immediately, but Averbakh played 27.Bd4, still winning , then luckily, he finds that ingenuity in the endgame.
Spassky was about to be suffocated. When in extreme need good ideas often duck up. But he knew Averback was an endgame specialist, he had to avoid it going that way.
(0:37) Tim Krabbé - (emphasis on "bé").
Tim Krabbé: "The Rider" - recommended. (Also for those chess players who do not engage in cycling to keep their "mens sana in corpore sano".)
Hello chessplayers around the world. I´m just tryin´to establish a new type of chess
called "Double-draw". The simple point of it is to eliminate blacks disadvantage of being
a step behind all the time.
The rules is as follows : White starts as usual with one draw then black makes two consecutive draws
followed with two draws for white and so it continues throughout the game.
You are only allowed to check on your SECOND draw and you have to use two DIFFERENT pieces
for the double draw unless of course you´re only left with the king.
I tried this just recently in a IRL game so I don´t really know if there are any illogicality
that might occur due to the rules in more complicated positions.
Please try with your friends and let me know what you think ; but you have to play IRL games
as you can´t find this on internet. Yet!
When you say "draw" do you mean "move"? I've seen "double chess" where each side has 2 moves in a row, but white must either win or draw with best play. Your modifications look interesting to make the game more even.
bishop to e3?
How many moves total. I like this stat but we never get it.
73 moves. You can find this information in the description of the video.
I do thank you for that. This game is such an adventure, I had to know.😎
My pleasure.
Pretty amazing game
7:25 He spent an hour before his next move...Was this before chess timers?
No, I guess the time control was 2 hours for the first 40 moves.
@@chesswisdom Afaik they had 2.5 hours per player for the first forty moves, followed by adjournment
@@Arcturus367 Yes, most probably you're right.
Spassky is a genius
why not Nf3 instead of R3h2
I found the best move in chess history
For Heaven's sake, please show White nearer the viewer
Every move faced a trap or an advantage. Intriguing fame.
Excuse me, sir, are you a native English speaker? You have a beautiful accent.
Thank you, sir. I'm Azerbaijani.
1:12 Can't black just play Nbd7 and protect both threats while only losing a single pawn?
Yes, but in this case White is up a pawn and Black has no compensation for it. So by playing precisely White must win in this position.
@@chesswisdom oh I see, thanks 😁
While paused my own favourite move is Ne6.
If the h file attack is so inevitable, it would stay that way if Nd4 is allowed. This makes no sense
How is that a draw when the king can go around the rock to the pawn to push it?
What is it called when you have s triple-fork? When the knight threatens 3 separate pieces at the same time?
I've just found this on Wikipedia: "A fork of the king and queen, the highest material-gaining fork possible, is sometimes called a royal fork. A fork of the enemy king, queen, and one (or both) rooks is sometimes called a grand fork. A knight fork of the enemy king, queen, and possibly other pieces is sometimes called a family fork".
Many forks is called an orgy
Remi pos, couldn’t black king just have moved behind the rook and in the long run captured the bishop after losing the pawn? What am i missing?
White needs just 3 moves to capture the pawn (Bb4, Bc5 and Kxb5), and the arising rook vs bishop endgame is a theoretical draw.
@@chesswisdom awesome, thx for explaining. Just realized i missed the end explanation in the video
My pleasure.
Spassky never lost while playing with white in the king's gambit.
There are so many mistakes on both sides. Lots of pieces hanging.
Soon as Black sacrificed his Knight, I knew something special was about to go down.
Real miracle if he does Rh1+ early. This isn't a great game
Can't be that great when I even saw the move.
Hmmm ... errors on both sides lead to ... a draw.
Who play's white ?
Yuri Averbakh.
After e5 d3+ black win the rook.
👍
Hm they are playing classic with 12 h not blitz they not good enough to be top players 😅 good game many mistakes for classical game tho
I do not agree, I have seen games which are much more innovated.
This game had real blunders by both players.
Spassky approach was just a normal use of errors due his opponents' mistakes later after his.
I think both players were true grandmasters but this game in not exceptional.
Donald Byrne's loss to Robert Fischer is one of the greatest games in chess history.
And there are many more examples.
Always nice to win a lost game, I have done so myself!
USCF NM
It's not about the game, it's about the miraculous Nc6. And the fact that you have already turned around a lost game is irrelevant here. Thanks.
thanks for thinking a world champion is a true grandmaster. what would the world be if you didnt think so. you are truly our saviour i shall express our gratitude in behalf of humanity
that was very sloppy chess all over!!
white can play now f3, Nf2, Ng4 heading Nf6
Yeah, that was a possible plan. The problem is, f3 weakens the e3 square and after white moves the d1 knight (which was also defending the e3 square) to f2, the black knight can invade e3 via c2 (with a check) attacking the white queen and the c4 pawn. That might be one of the reasons White played Rh2, to take under control the second rank, and prevent Nc2+.
@@chesswisdom oh i didn't saw that.. thanks for answering my comment..
My pleasure.
Tedious narration but an excellent sacrifice just the same.
Who is winner is none other than Boris Spasky Boris Spasky just acting like a child against Bobby Fisher after first game wining by Spasky Fisher crying like a child but not against genius Spasky so Spasky surrendered to a child like Bobby Fisher afraid of Anotoly Karpov because he has no own brain
he lost against Fischer hahahaha he can draw but cannot win.