Bro,he was happy too inside He knew playing Bobby would be in the best conditions Id think rather than the revenue demand,everything was normal. Chess players didn't had really good conditions to play back then
Spassky applauded because Fischer won one of the most beautiful chess games ever. He was simply showing his appreciation for both Fischer and the game.
It is a shame that Boris Spassky is mostly remembered for losing this match. He was a tremendous chess player who could be beat an opponent using many different styles of play.
And how it basically took bobby his whole life to get his first win against boris is pretty overlooked too... Boris beat him for years and years before bobby ever got a win against him.
@@johndotcue not back then. Bobby was a juggernaut, obsessed and relentless. He destroyed the entire Russian team. When the GOAT is at his peak, he is unbeatable.
I'm glad that this video actually respects how good Spassky was as well, this match has been covered many times but this is the first one I've seen that properly recognises that both were great players.
@øranuto husband yeah why? I really like levy but if he isn't good enough he just won't get the title of gm, i would like him to get it, but he doesn't deserve more than the othere IM
IMO Spassky is why Bobby won the '72 WCT Probably no other player would have endured Bobby's intolerable behavior Don't get me wrong BF was the better player His achievements in chess are unparalleled But had Boris not given in to his demands The match would have never have been finished And I doubt Fisher would ever have played again. Lots of respect for Boris
I DID live through it! I was 21 in 1972 and it was as a result of the coverage that this match got that I got back into chess in a serious way, having learned the game when I was 12. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!!
Just curious, were you rooting for Fischer? He seems like such an unlikeable drama queen looking back at it. I wasn't born at the time of the match, so it would be interesting to know what the contemporary perspective of him was.
@@irjake At the time, I just thought that Fisher was the 'great white hope' to beat the Russians at a game that they had dominated for years.. I knew about him, but I was surprised by how emotionally unstable he became. He did a lot to raise the profile of the game of chess, and to improve the conditions for everyone. We can thank him for the time-increment idea, and, of course, the Fisher Random idea. Yes, I was rooting for him to win, and when he did, the worldwide chess community was looking forward to a long and glittering reign as world champion, but it was not to be. His demons caught up with him, and, for reasons that were never clear, he refused to defend his title against Anatoly Karpov. He just faded into obscurity until he re-emerged for that replay against Spassky. His tirade against the USA cost him his US citizenship, and only Iceland was prepared to give him sanctuary. I find it all so very sad.
@@davehumphreys1725 I didn't know that he lost his US citizenship, but didn't he have some... interesting views on Jews and women? What were those? How did people respond?
@@halfway7690 he lost his US citizenship because of the 1992 tournament with Spassky. It was played in a war torn area that we had sanctions on. He was a fugitive from justice til he caught in Japan without a valid passport.
I was there ... following the games in the newspaper, that is, and playing them out with my cousins in Summer of 1972 - this is a very, very good video - I spent that summer in Cali, Colombia, and the whole world was, indeed, watching - it was everything people say it was !!
Many thanks for this great video analysis of games. In my research of Bobby Fischer games, he seems to be one of the most accurate world chess champions ever, especially when factoring in the complexity of positions. Many thanks for doing this Bobby Fischer video. I am a great fan of Fischer the chess player - not the person though. I feel Fischer ought to have been given help at the right time and it was a shame for the chess world he didn't play Karpov and extend his reign a little longer potentially. Cheers, K
KC, you're the OG chess content creator and I've been watching your videos for nearly a decade. Your immense catalogue and in-depth, at times philosophical analysis is unmatched. Keep up the great work! PS: Would love to see more videos on Firouzja, I think he's brimming with potential to be one of the GOATs of chess. I think he's the one that'll first dethrone Magnus. Such an exciting player.
Key metric is to check out the accuracy of players compared with chess engine play. According to this, Fischer had a 97.51% alignment with modern engines. Carlsen is slightly higher... BUT... Carlsen has grown up playing with the help of engines. One could argue that much of modern chess is who can memorize the most engine moves. So having the highest accuracy according to engine play before engines is simply INSANE. Bobby was the goat OTB. Too bad he went crazy...
@@MrJoao678 Don't speak when you ain't know shit...Fischer and Spasky were good friends ... Fischer was against the Soviet union not individual players...and he respected Spasky so much... Also he was the only person who visited Tal when he was in hospital... Yeah Fischer was a bit arrogant but not a bad person
@@syedtauheednabi2357 Fischer was a paranoid supremacist whose library featured Mein Kampf and many other anti-jewish racist books and who wrote in his own notebook that "It is time to start randomly killing jews". Not just "a bit arrogant". Great at chess though.
Gotta give it to Boris. Without his drive to play chess and desire to play rather than win, we got this excellent world championship. Bobby whinnied, and ultimately was the better player. But Boris showed what a competitor he was
Fischer was not Stockfish 16! Stockfish 16 would beat Fischer 999-1 easily! Fischer vs Geller in 1967 17:exf7??? 17:Rook f6! wins easily! Fischer vs Stein famous Bishop f5!, but earlier 26:Knight f7! or 26:a3! Fischer vs Larsen game one 1971 Fischer move bishop f3??? Bishop d6! wins easily! Fischer vs Spassky in 1966 olympiad Fischer moved Queen a6?? Rook e3! wins easily! Fischer was not a computer!
@@RaineriHakkarainenliterally nobody said Fischer would beat Stockfish. They’re saying Fischer was the “Stockfish” of the time. Sure Fischer has lost. So has Stockfish. Considering computers at the time were not advanced, Bobby dismantling the Greenblatt proved that. Not sure what you’re attempting to say.
As someone who lived during the 1972 chess world championship, I do recall the excitement and interest in chess. I was invited to help form a chess club in the high school wherein I was a student. Thank-you for this abbreviated recap of that tournament.
NOT TRUE.! Fischer and Kasparov Are Not The greatest Best Ever! Bobby Fischer against The weakest chess world champion Ever Boris Spassky 17 wins 11 losses! My old computer tought 5:22 minutes Capablanca-Reti game move and solved! Same computer tought 4:37 minutes Kasparov-Kramnik game move and solved! The.computet telling The Truth! Capablanca better than Kasparov!. Capablanca would Beat The Prime Boris Spassky easily 8 wins 5 draws no loss! Magnus Carlsen would Beat The Prime Boris Spassky easily 6 wins 6 draws no loss! Emmanuel Lasker would Beat The Prime Boris Spassky easily 5 wins 7 draws no loss! The highest tournament score result elo rating is Fabiano Caruana 8,5/10 St Louis Elo rating score is 3080!. Fabiano Caruana The world Record Holder 3080!. Karpov in Linares in 1994 11/13 Elo rating score is 3040! Alekhine in San Remo in 1930 elo rating is 3040!. Bobby Fischer against The weakest chess world champion Ever Boris Spassky in 1992! Fischer 10 wins Spassky 5 wins 15 draws! Boris Spassky was 162th World ranking in 1992! Spassky was rated only 2568! Fischer scored 58,33% score.against Boris Spassky in 1992! .So we get Fischer's.rating is 2617,78!. Emmanuel Lasker at age 56 years old won The New York tournament in 1924! The top The Best were in The New.york in 1924!.Lasker did not faced 162th world ranking players! Lasker.elo rating at age 56 is 2870!.The computers Will some Day tell The who is The greatest Best chess player Ever!!The.player whos moves The computer thinks The longest thinking Time and.solves! Bobby Fischer not The favourite because The computers solved Fischer famous moves easily!!
I truly appreciate it your summary of the 1972 world Chess championship. I was just a kid at the time but even I remember how big it was for Bobby Fischer to win that championship in the Cold war era.
Bobby Fisher would have walked. There wouldn't have been a match. Spassky would have remained World Champion -- but it would have meant little as Fisher had shown he was the best-- crushing everyone he played......
@@snapone2011 Except he hadn't shown it against Spassky and the one game they played Spassky won and then Bobby threw a tantrum. Fischer walking 2-0 down would for sure not have shown he was the best lmao
Maybe we should acknowledge that spassky was a sportsman. High level chess players seem to live for the challenge and less for the politics of the game.
@@TioAceite Fisher was always having as you want put it in "tantrum" mode. But he had at least three things things going for him---he was always fighting to improve chess, it was not unusual for him to walk out in the middle of a tournament fought for more money for the players--he had the highest Fide rating by far, he had proven he was the best by crushing- Petrosian, Korshnoi, Benko, etc Won The US Open 11/0 several times.. Don't know how old you are but I would go to see the candidate matches. Bobby Fisher to chess was like Mohammad Ali was to boxing. He was the best..World Title or not.
@@TioAceite Spassky won three games, two games with white and invalid match (because Fischer did not come). Meanwhile, Fischer won 7 games, 4 games with black. This should show that Fischer is twice better than Spassky like Magnus is twice better than Ian. Bruh
this is really good material, man, because you're not only mechanically playing, but you are story telling, and you're good at it, and it is historical, therefore it is needed, it is a great service for chess and for entertainment
Chess was huge in the Soviet Union, it was on par with hockey and football (soccer) over there. The Soviets even paid their good chess players a salary to simply study and play the game. They were also famous for teamwork at the top level of the game, there were no show offs per say, it was more of a team or fellowship environment which is why they were so good at the game back then.
Trouble is a lot of the game isn't shown, it's really more of a puzzle devised by IM Jeremy Silman. That being said, Ron not only had to avoid getting checkmated, but he had to do so while avoiding losing a Rook (Hermione) and a Bishop (Harry).
Much is said nowadays about Fischer, but truth be told... this was the very moment where the World Chess Championship had any matter of mainstream. Bobby with his neurotics and Boris with his sportsmanship. I love this match and a lot of people got into chess because of this moment in chess history.
Please do one for the most painful match in chess history: 【AMExKIARA COLLAB】Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics The game starts at 54:04. P.S. I couldn't post a link because TH-cam hides/deletes top-level comments with links.
@@stanleytime9193 HP is honestly the best channel for openings and their plans. He has covered hundreds of openings, virtually all of the popular ones.
honestly my favorite things about these videos, is i watched them months ago and now it's fun to go back and rewatch them when i can someone understand the ideas
"Bobby Fischer goes to war : how the Soviets lost the most extraordinary chess match of all time" by David Edmonds is a good read. He goes deeper into each player using behind the scenes sources in Russia to explain the political mechanisms that interfered in the matches. He also covers the inner circle around Fisher to give a balanced view of the whole event. It is more history book than chess book.
I was 21 in 1972 and although not a chess ‘player’ I was fully immersed in the politics and mind games. How Bobby withstood all that pressure was unfathomable. But, as you so rightly say, the pressure on that gentleman Boris Spassky was equally oppressive. The games had the headlines in all newspapers across the world and deservedly so. Chess was like tiddlywinks to the uninitiated. I remember it well as one of the ‘sporting’ challenges of my lifetime and it alerted the world to the beauty of the game. Steve
Tal v. Botvinnik or Spassky v. Petrosian... would be my suggestions...both because of the dynamics of personalities and style as well as the fact that many of the old soviet masters are highly instructive and are woefully underappreciated
I really enjoyed this and your commentary helped me understand the games quite well (and especially the drama surrounding the tournament). Thanks! One small critique: I'm relatively beginner in chess and didn't realize in your game 6 commentary initially that the players were now on different sides of the board compared to games 1, 3, and 5 and was confused after I realized it and had to rewatch the commentary. Understanding that the video is more about the championship rather than a specific player, I think it would have made it easier for me to follow if the players had stayed on the same sides as if we were watching from one perspective - maybe Spassky's as he was the champion at the time?
Here I stand in the early afternoon. While looking with one eye this video and with the other my phone I notice this man's voice. It's so soft, yet firm. Passionate. Loving the thing he does. At this exact moment I realize I love his voice. It brings calmness and serenity over the excitement in the games. I feel like this is the voice that "speaks" to me the most right now. Thank you GothamChess! Thank you Levi! Thank you for all the things you do for us, trying to entertain and educate others to the craft you love most! Looking forward seeing you as a GM sooner or later!
Hey Levy, you probably won't see this, but it would be awesome to see you cover more Spassky games. He's honestly my favorite player, in his heyday of the 60's and 70's he was an absolute beast, he really was.
@øranuto husband Lol. Did I say ONLY Levy creates beautiful content? Learn to appreciate man. My opinions need not match with yours for me to be correct or wrong.
I'm just getting to some of the videos from before I subscribed. Just wanted to point out that the "cameras" we are talking are movie cameras with actual reels of film taking film footage for broadcasting later. It had nothing to do with whether they were stationary or mobile. They were likely staionary because the SteadiCam wasn't even invented until 1975. But in reality, Fischer was bent because of his Game 1 blunder and wanted something to blame. But, as someone who has actually bouts of misophonia, it could have been legit. But, you really have to give Spassky a lot of credit for being a true sportsman. I guarantee yielding to Fischer's demands did him no favors with the Soviet government, but he didn't want a hollow title and it allowed the epic to happen.
@@RAjat9590 to be fair, the movie wasn't really about chess, it was about Bobby and how his mental state started declining. The acting was fine and I enjoyed the story
@@aleksaprelic9827 lol, really? It's about a world chess champion and you say it's not about chess? What was the reason for his mental health declining? Not chess? In the first game they show after Bxh2 Bobby resigned and stated it as a blunder whereas Bobby missed one idea some moves later which Levy explained very nicely. I feel if you show chess, then show it correctly else don't show it. That's the only reason for queens gambit becoming a success since chess is correct in it.
i found it mediocre to be honest (loads of narrative cliches), and Maguire totally miscasted as Fischer. i wonder what it is that makes one consider it a "really good movie".
@@deeznoots6241 Fischer was... different but it clearly made a difference to him. Any master level player should be able to figure out that Bxh2 is a terrible idea in that position, let alone Bobby freaking Fischer
These videos come up so early that Northernlion still doesn't have his Isaac daily up. Awesome content! I think I'm definitely improving thanks to you!
Love this content so much. I’ll probably always be mediocre at chess but the history of it is so lovely and I don’t have to be a GM to appreciate it. Thanks Levy!
Technically true, but psychologically it's different. When it is Fischer (who's only a challenger) that demands things, and those demands are met, and he's effectively deciding about the conditions, it becomes HIS match, HIS territory. It's a psychological blow to the ego of the reigning champion. Is it rational? No, but humans aren't 100% rational creatures.
@@vibovitold at the end of the day, no external conditions can effect what happens on the board backstage, with no cameras and little people, 2 people, totally concentrated, disregarding the past, and trying to win the game.
Gotham thank you for all the amazing content you're providing for us. You make it fun and engaging for everyone to learn chess. We really appreciate what you're doing for the chess world right now. Keep it going my man!
I love your analyses of super high level games. Having a master explain these games is hugely beneficial for developing my intuition and understanding of the ideas and mechanics of the game at a high level, developing a feel for what super strong play is like. My neural network (brain) is absolutely loving the food, thanks Levy! :D
Day 89: Of requesting Levy to cover opposite coloured bishop endgames. Especially when you have a slight material advantage of being up by two or three pawns against your opponent and you both have opposite coloured bishops as well.
lol I like a guy who has no delusions about how good he is at something. People like that bug me so much, I usually find out I am actually better at things that I do, than I often realized. Chess is not one of them,---at least, not yet. :)
The growth of your channel is insame you just hit 800k a couple of days ago now you are at 823k. That's the power of the pink hoodies!! I really enjoy watching your videos as well as your streams if I am able to catch them
It's fascinating to think about how different both the candidates tournament and the world chess championship would have been had Fischer not played in this cycle. Petrosian, Larsen, Taimanov, all super class act players, all who would've made for an interesting championship against Spassky
The down fall of bobby Fischer just makes me sad, I feel like after he became world champion he had nothing else to do with his life and he just slowly went insane.
from the moment he became WC he had nothing to gain and (in his mind) everything to lose. It makes Kasparov's reign triply impressive - his longevity and the way he dominated consecutive generations. Kaspy is the god of chess. Fischer is Loki.
i think it's the opposite. he had already been (kind of) insane, but held it together thanks to chess - and a clear goal he could fixate on. once this was gone, his mind had nothing to hold onto and began falling apart.
lets decide who is the GOAT if number of likes ends with 0)Anand 1)Bobby 2)Karpov 3)Lasker 4)Kasparov 5)Botvinik 6)Magnus 7)Morphy 8)Capablanca 9)alekhine
NOT TRUE! Bobby Fischer against The weakest chess world champion Ever Boris Spassky 17 wins 11 losses!! My old computer tought 5:22.minutes Capablanca-Reti game move and solved!! Same.computer tought 4:37.minutes Kasparov-Kramnik game move and solved!! The computer telling The TRUTH!!! Capablanca better than Kasparov!!! The highest tournament score result elo rating is Fabiano Caruana 8,5/10 St Louis Elo rating score 3080!!! The world Record 3080 Fabiano Caruana!!! Karpov. In Linares 11/13 Elo rating score 3040! Alekhine in SAN Remo in 1930 elo rating score 3040!!! Bobby Fischer against Boris Spassky in 1992-1993 Fischer 10 wins.Spassky 5 wins!.Boris Spassky was 162th world ranking in 1993-1993!.Boris.Spassky.was rated 2558 elo.points!. So we get The rating for Fischer!! Fischer scored 58,33% score.against Spassky! So.Fischer rating is ,2617,78 in 1992-1993!!! Lasker won The New York tournament in 1924 at.age.56 years old! In that tournament in New York in 1924.the top players were playing!!.Lasker 2875 elo rating!!. Bobby Fischer at 49 years old only 2617,78!!! The.computers Will some Day tell who is The greatest Best Ever! The player whos moves The computer thinks The longest thinking Time is The greatest Best Ever!! Bobby Fischer not The favourite because The computers solved Fischer famous moves easily!!!!
I was almost 8 years old, and visiting family in the Netherlands. There, in relative's homes across the country, the series was broadcast on TV each day, with higlights on the evening news. It was BIG. A real EVENT.
Hi Levy, I was wondering if it was possible for you to re-post this video...but with an eval bar? Kinda like how you're doing your recaps now w the current WCC. That would be amazing...you da man!!!
@@alexandrumarin8981 waking the dragon is a card that came out in 2018 or 19 I’m not sure so he must be pretty aware of modern yugioh it’s crazy the guy talks about the 2 best games in world 😵
Very well done, GothamChess, or whatever your name is! I was one year younger than Bobby Fischer, so I followed him from the time he was thirteen and I was twelve until Bobby's death in Iceland. To my mind, Bobby Fischer is "the father of modern chess." He brought chess to the masses and made it a global phenomenon. Also, Fischer had to defeat the entire Soviet chess machine which we now know fixed tournaments in order to ensure that a Russian was world champion. Hence, for both his brilliance over the board and his herculean effort to free chess itself, Fischer will always be the G.O.A.T. in my eyes.
That was an amazing video. I was really Inspired by your videos that is why I started my own channel and I am now posting weekly tutorial videos about chess.
Spassky is such a classy guy. He accepted Fischer's ridiculous demands and when he lost to him he just applauded.
Totally agree, I didn't know him but he gained my respect.
A Good sport, is hard to find, Thankfully they were abundant back in the day
Bro,he was happy too inside
He knew playing Bobby would be in the best conditions
Id think rather than the revenue demand,everything was normal. Chess players didn't had really good conditions to play back then
@Tr Do Fischer has my admiration, as a chess player but not as a person.
Spassky applauded because Fischer won one of the most beautiful chess games ever. He was simply showing his appreciation for both Fischer and the game.
It is a shame that Boris Spassky is mostly remembered for losing this match. He was a tremendous chess player who could be beat an opponent using many different styles of play.
Boris Spassky is a great player, it's just that the story of Bobby Fischer completely outshine it
He could have beaten Fischer tbh
And how it basically took bobby his whole life to get his first win against boris is pretty overlooked too... Boris beat him for years and years before bobby ever got a win against him.
@@johndotcue not back then. Bobby was a juggernaut, obsessed and relentless. He destroyed the entire Russian team. When the GOAT is at his peak, he is unbeatable.
I'm glad that this video actually respects how good Spassky was as well, this match has been covered many times but this is the first one I've seen that properly recognises that both were great players.
"how bobby fischer became world champion" by watching gothamchess videos 48 years in the future
yo he sure got his course
Ikr
@@--tooblivion2559 I know right
He's long dead and that really doesn't make any sense. I mean wouldn't he just use engines instead?
@@thesnackbandit issa joke
I'm just here to hear Levy say I'm better than a queen
And Im here to say that we r almost the same,just a black background 😭😭😭
and I'm just here to bring you back down to earth Jeffery. go clean your room
Levy say the line!
what is more important than a queen
@@i_______i________i_______i6073 you are a dark mode version
so he's saying you're a king, which is pretty useless
Chess is an amazing game. After only 5 moves each, there are over 4 million possible hoodies GothamChess can choose to wear.
LOL
And yet he wears none of them, not even the Vienna gambit
LoLed
😂😂😂
BWAHAHAHAHA!
Patiently waiting for the video "how Gotham chess became a gm"
Same 😀
He deserve that title more than everybody else!
Amen.
@øranuto husband yeah why? I really like levy but if he isn't good enough he just won't get the title of gm, i would like him to get it, but he doesn't deserve more than the othere IM
@øranuto husband he teaches people, he had almost won against are current world champion, and made 500 elo too 1500 elo. So why not
Levy’s videos have become a daily routine of mine.
same lmao
IMO Spassky is why Bobby won the '72 WCT
Probably no other player would have endured Bobby's intolerable behavior
Don't get me wrong
BF was the better player
His achievements in chess are unparalleled
But had Boris not given in to his demands
The match would have never have been finished
And I doubt Fisher would ever have played again.
Lots of respect for Boris
I definitely agree
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gotham has more hoodies than the amount of atoms in the universe
Hoodies are made out of atoms, so gotham has more hoodies than the amount of hoodies in the universe
He has over 10600523785437543736+ he’s magic
@@laughingstar3945 underrated comment
@@laughingstar3945 Quasi-hoodies
@@laughingstar3945 But hoodies are made out of hoodies?
Levy is a content machine! I hope he always gets enough sleep :-)
Duk duk duk duk duk duk duk duk
And we hope both sides of the pillow are cold :))
lol he does he said it a couple video ago
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I DID live through it! I was 21 in 1972 and it was as a result of the coverage that this match got that I got back into chess in a serious way, having learned the game when I was 12. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!!
Just curious, were you rooting for Fischer? He seems like such an unlikeable drama queen looking back at it. I wasn't born at the time of the match, so it would be interesting to know what the contemporary perspective of him was.
@@irjake At the time, I just thought that Fisher was the 'great white hope' to beat the Russians at a game that they had dominated for years.. I knew about him, but I was surprised by how emotionally unstable he became. He did a lot to raise the profile of the game of chess, and to improve the conditions for everyone. We can thank him for the time-increment idea, and, of course, the Fisher Random idea. Yes, I was rooting for him to win, and when he did, the worldwide chess community was looking forward to a long and glittering reign as world champion, but it was not to be. His demons caught up with him, and, for reasons that were never clear, he refused to defend his title against Anatoly Karpov. He just faded into obscurity until he re-emerged for that replay against Spassky. His tirade against the USA cost him his US citizenship, and only Iceland was prepared to give him sanctuary. I find it all so very sad.
@@davehumphreys1725 I didn't know that he lost his US citizenship, but didn't he have some... interesting views on Jews and women? What were those? How did people respond?
@@halfway7690 he lost his US citizenship because of the 1992 tournament with Spassky. It was played in a war torn area that we had sanctions on. He was a fugitive from justice til he caught in Japan without a valid passport.
@@davehumphreys1725 The most genius of minds are also the most troubled. Be glad your not like Fischer.
I was there ... following the games in the newspaper, that is, and playing them out with my cousins in Summer of 1972 - this is a very, very good video - I spent that summer in Cali, Colombia, and the whole world was, indeed, watching - it was everything people say it was !!
Many thanks for this great video analysis of games. In my research of Bobby Fischer games, he seems to be one of the most accurate world chess champions ever, especially when factoring in the complexity of positions. Many thanks for doing this Bobby Fischer video. I am a great fan of Fischer the chess player - not the person though. I feel Fischer ought to have been given help at the right time and it was a shame for the chess world he didn't play Karpov and extend his reign a little longer potentially. Cheers, K
KC, you're the OG chess content creator and I've been watching your videos for nearly a decade. Your immense catalogue and in-depth, at times philosophical analysis is unmatched. Keep up the great work!
PS: Would love to see more videos on Firouzja, I think he's brimming with potential to be one of the GOATs of chess. I think he's the one that'll first dethrone Magnus. Such an exciting player.
Lol
Had Karpov defeated Fischer, he might have had a better reputation than Kasparov (whom many consider the Goat or top 3 at the very least).
I agree largely….. can you imagine if Fischer had stuck around till the 80s or maybe even 90sss we were definitely robbed
Key metric is to check out the accuracy of players compared with chess engine play. According to this, Fischer had a 97.51% alignment with modern engines. Carlsen is slightly higher... BUT... Carlsen has grown up playing with the help of engines. One could argue that much of modern chess is who can memorize the most engine moves. So having the highest accuracy according to engine play before engines is simply INSANE. Bobby was the goat OTB. Too bad he went crazy...
Spassky is actually super underrated.
A gentleman when winning AND losing, unlike Fischer..
@@MrJoao678 and Kasparrov, he made such a big deal that Radjabov saced his knight and won a game against him. Very unsportsmanly
@@MrJoao678 Don't speak when you ain't know shit...Fischer and Spasky were good friends ... Fischer was against the Soviet union not individual players...and he respected Spasky so much...
Also he was the only person who visited Tal when he was in hospital...
Yeah Fischer was a bit arrogant but not a bad person
Fun fact: Spassky was a player of the Kings Gambit. He never lost a game in which he opened with the King’s Gambit.
@@syedtauheednabi2357 Fischer was a paranoid supremacist whose library featured Mein Kampf and many other anti-jewish racist books and who wrote in his own notebook that "It is time to start randomly killing jews". Not just "a bit arrogant". Great at chess though.
He’s really Fisching for content now...
Before this blows up
In Agadmator’s pond
(jk, it’s not like Antonio has exclusive rights to this stuff, it’s great getting more perspectives)
He has caught the youtube algorithm
alright buddy
@@groceries2321 read it again
Gotta give it to Boris. Without his drive to play chess and desire to play rather than win, we got this excellent world championship.
Bobby whinnied, and ultimately was the better player. But Boris showed what a competitor he was
Chess bot in 1972 : Fischer
Chess bot today : StockFish
Coincidence? I think mot
Bobby Fischer 1943-2008
StockFish 2008-Present
Coincidence? I think mot
looks fishy to me
Fischer was not Stockfish 16! Stockfish 16 would beat Fischer 999-1 easily! Fischer vs Geller in 1967 17:exf7??? 17:Rook f6! wins easily! Fischer vs Stein famous Bishop f5!, but earlier 26:Knight f7! or 26:a3! Fischer vs Larsen game one 1971 Fischer move bishop f3??? Bishop d6! wins easily! Fischer vs Spassky in 1966 olympiad Fischer moved Queen a6?? Rook e3! wins easily! Fischer was not a computer!
@@RaineriHakkarainenliterally nobody said Fischer would beat Stockfish. They’re saying Fischer was the “Stockfish” of the time. Sure Fischer has lost. So has Stockfish. Considering computers at the time were not advanced, Bobby dismantling the Greenblatt proved that. Not sure what you’re attempting to say.
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As someone who lived during the 1972 chess world championship, I do recall the excitement and interest in chess. I was invited to help form a chess club in the high school wherein I was a student. Thank-you for this abbreviated recap of that tournament.
This dude is a machine...and HE DOES IT WITH ENERGY
*Laughs in how to win at chess ep 10*
Yeah he is. Bobby Fischer was so dominant and will always be up there as one of the best. I wouldn't even say he's a machine, more like an AI
@@self-righteousideologue9398 Think they meant gotham.
@@self-righteousideologue9398 I meant Levy, but you are talking in facts
NOT TRUE.! Fischer and Kasparov Are Not The greatest Best Ever! Bobby Fischer against The weakest chess world champion Ever Boris Spassky 17 wins 11 losses! My old computer tought 5:22 minutes Capablanca-Reti game move and solved! Same computer tought 4:37 minutes Kasparov-Kramnik game move and solved! The.computet telling The Truth! Capablanca better than Kasparov!. Capablanca would Beat The Prime Boris Spassky easily 8 wins 5 draws no loss! Magnus Carlsen would Beat The Prime Boris Spassky easily 6 wins 6 draws no loss! Emmanuel Lasker would Beat The Prime Boris Spassky easily 5 wins 7 draws no loss! The highest tournament score result elo rating is Fabiano Caruana 8,5/10 St Louis Elo rating score is 3080!. Fabiano Caruana The world Record Holder 3080!. Karpov in Linares in 1994 11/13 Elo rating score is 3040! Alekhine in San Remo in 1930 elo rating is 3040!. Bobby Fischer against The weakest chess world champion Ever Boris Spassky in 1992! Fischer 10 wins Spassky 5 wins 15 draws! Boris Spassky was 162th World ranking in 1992! Spassky was rated only 2568! Fischer scored 58,33% score.against Boris Spassky in 1992! .So we get Fischer's.rating is 2617,78!. Emmanuel Lasker at age 56 years old won The New York tournament in 1924! The top The Best were in The New.york in 1924!.Lasker did not faced 162th world ranking players! Lasker.elo rating at age 56 is 2870!.The computers Will some Day tell The who is The greatest Best chess player Ever!!The.player whos moves The computer thinks The longest thinking Time and.solves! Bobby Fischer not The favourite because The computers solved Fischer famous moves easily!!
I truly appreciate it your summary of the 1972 world Chess championship. I was just a kid at the time but even I remember how big it was for Bobby Fischer to win that championship in the Cold war era.
Imagine if after Fischer asked to play backstage, Spassky just said no
Bobby Fisher would have walked. There wouldn't have been a match. Spassky would have remained World Champion -- but it would have meant little as Fisher had shown he was the best-- crushing everyone he played......
@@snapone2011 Except he hadn't shown it against Spassky and the one game they played Spassky won and then Bobby threw a tantrum. Fischer walking 2-0 down would for sure not have shown he was the best lmao
Maybe we should acknowledge that spassky was a sportsman. High level chess players seem to live for the challenge and less for the politics of the game.
@@TioAceite Fisher was always having as you want put it in "tantrum" mode. But he had at least three things things going for him---he was always fighting to improve chess, it was not unusual for him to walk out in the middle of a tournament fought for more money for the players--he had the highest Fide rating by far, he had proven he was the best by crushing- Petrosian, Korshnoi, Benko, etc Won The US Open 11/0 several times.. Don't know how old you are but I would go to see the candidate matches. Bobby Fisher to chess was like Mohammad Ali was to boxing. He was the best..World Title or not.
@@TioAceite Spassky won three games, two games with white and invalid match (because Fischer did not come). Meanwhile, Fischer won 7 games, 4 games with black. This should show that Fischer is twice better than Spassky like Magnus is twice better than Ian. Bruh
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this is really good material, man, because you're not only mechanically playing, but you are story telling, and you're good at it, and it is historical, therefore it is needed, it is a great service for chess and for entertainment
This video should be called "Pawn's Sacrifice: Director's Cut"
lol
Chess was huge in the Soviet Union, it was on par with hockey and football (soccer) over there. The Soviets even paid their good chess players a salary to simply study and play the game. They were also famous for teamwork at the top level of the game, there were no show offs per say, it was more of a team or fellowship environment which is why they were so good at the game back then.
Levy can you please analyse the game of chess from Harry Potter and the philosopher‘s stone.
Trouble is a lot of the game isn't shown, it's really more of a puzzle devised by IM Jeremy Silman. That being said, Ron not only had to avoid getting checkmated, but he had to do so while avoiding losing a Rook (Hermione) and a Bishop (Harry).
Don't know if you're specifically looking for Levy to analyse it but Agadmator has done a video on it th-cam.com/video/L7RIDfDG8wY/w-d-xo.html
@@jackurokawa3838 yeah but he was in the game so he should remember it
Much is said nowadays about Fischer, but truth be told... this was the very moment where the World Chess Championship had any matter of mainstream. Bobby with his neurotics and Boris with his sportsmanship. I love this match and a lot of people got into chess because of this moment in chess history.
18:59 you saying "you are amazing and appreciated" was just so heartwarming for me, it made me smile. i needed to hear that
I am waiting for the Bongcloud Theory lesson and how to win with 2.Ke2. Subbed!
Look up winning with the bongcloud pdf, it's the immortal chess book
Please do one for the most painful match in chess history:
【AMExKIARA COLLAB】Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics
The game starts at 54:04.
P.S. I couldn't post a link because TH-cam hides/deletes top-level comments with links.
Oh, no.
@@katyusha1283 He is gonna lose some ELO and bits of his sanity, lmao. 😂
th-cam.com/video/fYh57wZAmTo/w-d-xo.html
Clearly, the most powerful women Chess players of that group, on-par with Masters Roberu and Izuru.
After watching game 3 I realise I know very little about the Benoni - I’d appreciate a video covering it if you have the time! Thanks :)
Hanging pawns did a series on it
@@stanleytime9193 HP is honestly the best channel for openings and their plans. He has covered hundreds of openings, virtually all of the popular ones.
@@0willow0 yep, he's awesome
honestly my favorite things about these videos, is i watched them months ago and now it's fun to go back and rewatch them when i can someone understand the ideas
Beautiful stuff Gotham. Even after studying this match I still enjoyed this video in it’s entirety. You’re doing what you’re meant to do. Cheers
Just when i was admitting that there was nothing to watch before my commute to work. You have saved my morning Levy. YOU are amazing!
Thank you so much for this! I'm so glad that my request granted, it's probably just a coincidence but thank you for the great content Levi!
I love it whenever Levy makes Yugioh references in these vids. 😂
Where did he do that?
@@polytopiahu1015 Sometimes he'll mention Exodia (forgot the timestamp for this video) or some other cool thing the main character did.
@@polytopiahu1015 11:26
That’s why he is the GOAT
Watching a new levy video has become an hourly routine for me
"Bobby Fischer goes to war : how the Soviets lost the most extraordinary chess match of all time" by David Edmonds is a good read. He goes deeper into each player using behind the scenes sources in Russia to explain the political mechanisms that interfered in the matches. He also covers the inner circle around Fisher to give a balanced view of the whole event. It is more history book than chess book.
I was 21 in 1972 and although not a chess ‘player’ I was fully immersed in the politics and mind games. How Bobby withstood all that pressure was unfathomable. But, as you so rightly say, the pressure on that gentleman Boris Spassky was equally oppressive. The games had the headlines in all newspapers across the world and deservedly so. Chess was like tiddlywinks to the uninitiated. I remember it well as one of the ‘sporting’ challenges of my lifetime and it alerted the world to the beauty of the game.
Steve
Damn Gotham that pink makes you pop
THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS MATCH! Some of my favorite games and now from my favorite commentator... life is good.
Tal v. Botvinnik or Spassky v. Petrosian... would be my suggestions...both because of the dynamics of personalities and style as well as the fact that many of the old soviet masters are highly instructive and are woefully underappreciated
I really enjoyed this and your commentary helped me understand the games quite well (and especially the drama surrounding the tournament). Thanks! One small critique: I'm relatively beginner in chess and didn't realize in your game 6 commentary initially that the players were now on different sides of the board compared to games 1, 3, and 5 and was confused after I realized it and had to rewatch the commentary. Understanding that the video is more about the championship rather than a specific player, I think it would have made it easier for me to follow if the players had stayed on the same sides as if we were watching from one perspective - maybe Spassky's as he was the champion at the time?
Here I stand in the early afternoon. While looking with one eye this video and with the other my phone I notice this man's voice. It's so soft, yet firm. Passionate. Loving the thing he does. At this exact moment I realize I love his voice. It brings calmness and serenity over the excitement in the games. I feel like this is the voice that "speaks" to me the most right now.
Thank you GothamChess! Thank you Levi! Thank you for all the things you do for us, trying to entertain and educate others to the craft you love most!
Looking forward seeing you as a GM sooner or later!
Next video:
How Levy Rosman (AKA Gothamchess) became a Grand Master
i don't think it will happen anytime soon
@@nezn7230 still can happen and I'll wait till that day :D
@@nezn7230 still can happen and I'll wait till that day :D
Levy you should totally cover Mikhail Tal - World Champion, tactical legend, and personal inspiration for my chess. Fantastic player.
Let’s show some appreciation for the supporters who support the Levy’s consistency supporters.
Hey Levy, you probably won't see this, but it would be awesome to see you cover more Spassky games. He's honestly my favorite player, in his heyday of the 60's and 70's he was an absolute beast, he really was.
The way Levy keeps coming up with such amazing and beautiful chess-only content is astonishing and brilliant.
@øranuto husband Lol. Did I say ONLY Levy creates beautiful content? Learn to appreciate man. My opinions need not match with yours for me to be correct or wrong.
@øranuto husband whats wrong with u huh!?
@øranuto husband great bro. You made a very important point. Now you can leave, thanks for making yourself look dumb
I'm just getting to some of the videos from before I subscribed. Just wanted to point out that the "cameras" we are talking are movie cameras with actual reels of film taking film footage for broadcasting later. It had nothing to do with whether they were stationary or mobile. They were likely staionary because the SteadiCam wasn't even invented until 1975.
But in reality, Fischer was bent because of his Game 1 blunder and wanted something to blame. But, as someone who has actually bouts of misophonia, it could have been legit.
But, you really have to give Spassky a lot of credit for being a true sportsman. I guarantee yielding to Fischer's demands did him no favors with the Soviet government, but he didn't want a hollow title and it allowed the epic to happen.
There's a really good movie about Bobby called "The pawn sacrifice". Shows how brilliant and troubled he was at the same time
It's a garbage movie that doesn't even show the games correctly. Better watch Bobby Fischer against the world documentry.
@@RAjat9590 to be fair, the movie wasn't really about chess, it was about Bobby and how his mental state started declining. The acting was fine and I enjoyed the story
@@aleksaprelic9827 lol, really? It's about a world chess champion and you say it's not about chess? What was the reason for his mental health declining? Not chess?
In the first game they show after Bxh2 Bobby resigned and stated it as a blunder whereas Bobby missed one idea some moves later which Levy explained very nicely.
I feel if you show chess, then show it correctly else don't show it. That's the only reason for queens gambit becoming a success since chess is correct in it.
@@RAjat9590 Bobby's enemies made that movie.
i found it mediocre to be honest (loads of narrative cliches), and Maguire totally miscasted as Fischer.
i wonder what it is that makes one consider it a "really good movie".
This is the best video!
I’ve fallen into a habit of watching Levy videos everyday while having my snacks.
Me too! (Without the snack eating)
@@kaininjago6161 same :(
I have no good snacks
I don't wanna wait to get the snacks when a gem like this one comes out
As a competitive yugioh player, never thought I would catch a ygo reference in a chess commentary
Bobby Fischer just didn't show up because of a cameraman.
Explain?
Cameramen* also the cameras back then made noise which isn’t something most players enjoy and also applied unneeded pressure.
@@brysongarland4094 Fischer was uhh eccentric, load cameras was annoying enough for most players but Fischer absolutely hated them.
@@deeznoots6241 Fischer was... different but it clearly made a difference to him. Any master level player should be able to figure out that Bxh2 is a terrible idea in that position, let alone Bobby freaking Fischer
@@deeznoots6241 also, apparently he had hyperacusis.
Thanks levy for the consistency in the uploads
nice profile picture mate
These videos come up so early that Northernlion still doesn't have his Isaac daily up. Awesome content! I think I'm definitely improving thanks to you!
I saw another video about the greatest winning streak in Chess history and it wasn't Fischer's candidate's run? Made me chuckle.
Love this content so much. I’ll probably always be mediocre at chess but the history of it is so lovely and I don’t have to be a GM to appreciate it. Thanks Levy!
Every time i watch that Game 6 feels like listening to an intricately put together pensive piece of classical music. What a beauty.
It wasn't a mistake by Spassky, he should still be willing to play without all the cameras and distractions. That's a more true game
Technically true, but psychologically it's different. When it is Fischer (who's only a challenger) that demands things, and those demands are met, and he's effectively deciding about the conditions, it becomes HIS match, HIS territory. It's a psychological blow to the ego of the reigning champion. Is it rational? No, but humans aren't 100% rational creatures.
@@vibovitold at the end of the day, no external conditions can effect what happens on the board backstage, with no cameras and little people, 2 people, totally concentrated, disregarding the past, and trying to win the game.
@@genox633 they can, and they do
@@vibovitold i said "backstage" referring to this specific situation.
Always love it when you make it to the end of the video and get to hear Levy mention who's most important.
Gotham thank you for all the amazing content you're providing for us.
You make it fun and engaging for everyone to learn chess.
We really appreciate what you're doing for the chess world right now. Keep it going my man!
This game was part of "48 Laws of Power" Fischer played mind games against Spassky
I love your analyses of super high level games. Having a master explain these games is hugely beneficial for developing my intuition and understanding of the ideas and mechanics of the game at a high level, developing a feel for what super strong play is like. My neural network (brain) is absolutely loving the food, thanks Levy! :D
Day 89: Of requesting Levy to cover opposite coloured bishop endgames.
Especially when you have a slight material advantage of being up by two or three pawns against your opponent and you both have opposite coloured bishops as well.
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This was the match that started my obsession with chess. Without it, I would not be the mediocre player I am today.
lol I like a guy who has no delusions about how good he is at something. People like that bug me so much, I usually find out I am actually better at things that I do, than I often realized. Chess is not one of them,---at least, not yet. :)
I am a mediocre gambler also.
Always have said the way Levy explains chess games is fantastic.
I live to hear levy say I’m worth more than a king 🥰
The growth of your channel is insame you just hit 800k a couple of days ago now you are at 823k. That's the power of the pink hoodies!! I really enjoy watching your videos as well as your streams if I am able to catch them
I've slowly started to gain progress in my game because of your content
Thanks alot sir 😀😀
Lots of love from India 🇮🇳
Just watched a movie about these games and then a couple days later levy makes a great video explaining them all!
Only OG's know that the title was 'How Bobby Fischer was World Champion'
It's fascinating to think about how different both the candidates tournament and the world chess championship would have been had Fischer not played in this cycle. Petrosian, Larsen, Taimanov, all super class act players, all who would've made for an interesting championship against Spassky
The down fall of bobby Fischer just makes me sad, I feel like after he became world champion he had nothing else to do with his life and he just slowly went insane.
from the moment he became WC he had nothing to gain and (in his mind) everything to lose. It makes Kasparov's reign triply impressive - his longevity and the way he dominated consecutive generations. Kaspy is the god of chess. Fischer is Loki.
he said in an interview that he felt different/empty the day after he won the championship
i think it's the opposite.
he had already been (kind of) insane, but held it together thanks to chess - and a clear goal he could fixate on.
once this was gone, his mind had nothing to hold onto and began falling apart.
@@vibovitold why the hell didnt he challenge kasparov if he felt so empty?
@@scottwarren4998 They were 20 years apart, mind you.
Thank you Levy I asked for this game a couple vids ago, CONTENT MACHINE
How could have Spassky capitalised when he's from Soviet Union 😏
Well, he left for France a few years after the WC match.
I wish you'd done individual videos on individual games! Thanks for this series!
When he played the queen move on 4:10 its said he yelled wwwwwWWWWINDMILLL and the crowd in the front all yelled loudly
Love your Historical explanations of matches we could not see and wondered about the back stories.
Epic hoodie man! (ok, now I can resume and *actually* watch the video 🤣)
11:10 was my man just about to say “juicers”?
That’s some next level analysis
The 🐐 Bobby Fischer 👑
Wonderful video! I knew a great deal about the match, but learned much more from your presentation.
lets decide who is the GOAT
if number of likes ends with
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1)Bobby
2)Karpov
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4)Kasparov
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6)Magnus
7)Morphy
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Those three are the most talented players ever.
Paul Morphy is the actual Mozart of chess.
NOT TRUE! Bobby Fischer against The weakest chess world champion Ever Boris Spassky 17 wins 11 losses!! My old computer tought 5:22.minutes Capablanca-Reti game move and solved!! Same.computer tought 4:37.minutes Kasparov-Kramnik game move and solved!! The computer telling The TRUTH!!! Capablanca better than Kasparov!!! The highest tournament score result elo rating is Fabiano Caruana 8,5/10 St Louis Elo rating score 3080!!! The world Record 3080 Fabiano Caruana!!! Karpov. In Linares 11/13 Elo rating score 3040! Alekhine in SAN Remo in 1930 elo rating score 3040!!! Bobby Fischer against Boris Spassky in 1992-1993 Fischer 10 wins.Spassky 5 wins!.Boris Spassky was 162th world ranking in 1993-1993!.Boris.Spassky.was rated 2558 elo.points!. So we get The rating for Fischer!! Fischer scored 58,33% score.against Spassky! So.Fischer rating is ,2617,78 in 1992-1993!!! Lasker won The New York tournament in 1924 at.age.56 years old! In that tournament in New York in 1924.the top players were playing!!.Lasker 2875 elo rating!!. Bobby Fischer at 49 years old only 2617,78!!! The.computers Will some Day tell who is The greatest Best Ever! The player whos moves The computer thinks The longest thinking Time is The greatest Best Ever!! Bobby Fischer not The favourite because The computers solved Fischer famous moves easily!!!!
I have fond memories of watching Shelby Lyman hosting the televised coverage of these matches as a 9yo
Another banger video
I was almost 8 years old, and visiting family in the Netherlands. There, in relative's homes across the country, the series was broadcast on TV each day, with higlights on the evening news. It was BIG. A real EVENT.
Happy Easter!
Hi Levy, I was wondering if it was possible for you to re-post this video...but with an eval bar? Kinda like how you're doing your recaps now w the current WCC. That would be amazing...you da man!!!
11:26 The fact Gotham Chess is aware of the Exodia meme puts a big dumb smile on my face :)))
He made a Yu-Gi-Oh! Waking the Dragons reference in a previous video as well.
@@NateROCKS112 ...so Levy is into Yu-Gi-Oh apparently. Or at the very least he watched the abridged series
@@alexandrumarin8981 waking the dragon is a card that came out in 2018 or 19 I’m not sure so he must be pretty aware of modern yugioh it’s crazy the guy talks about the 2 best games in world 😵
thank you levy for doing my suggestion, your the best!
I'm barely a mediocre chess player, but your channel rocks. Thank for making chess fun to watch.
I can't wait for levy to have 1m subs.
Nice video as always
Very well done, GothamChess, or whatever your name is! I was one year younger than Bobby Fischer, so I followed him from the time he was thirteen and I was twelve until Bobby's death in Iceland. To my mind, Bobby Fischer is "the father of modern chess." He brought chess to the masses and made it a global phenomenon. Also, Fischer had to defeat the entire Soviet chess machine which we now know fixed tournaments in order to ensure that a Russian was world champion. Hence, for both his brilliance over the board and his herculean effort to free chess itself, Fischer will always be the G.O.A.T. in my eyes.
That was an amazing video. I was really Inspired by your videos that is why I started my own channel and I am now posting weekly tutorial videos about chess.
Day 7 of translating Levy's titles to Russian: "Бобби Фишер против советской шахматной машины (1972)"
Cause why the frick not
@@polytopiahu1015 yup
ага да машина бмв какойто
@@rvolv3737 бмв это она я так думаю
woah dude, your consistency is on another level
My favorite was game 13, kinda sad you didn’t feature it. But good video! Saw some nice games
''Bishop E7 Is A Very Soviet Way Of Playing.'' - Levy Rozman, 2021
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Amazing video, Just love the way how levy explains everything such enthusiasm