Dawn of titans forums8/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The Soviet system had done much for chess. After a quarter-century their monopoly was breached. All this because the Soviet chess colossus had at last to release its grip on Caissa's most coveted crown to a brash outsider, Fischer, who violated the established order. And in revolutions regimes crumble, values are transformed, the unthinkable of yesterday becomes today's routine, the young do outrageous things and the old make all too painful adjustments. press rewarded chess with attention as massive (and as superficial) as the coverage of any major sport.įor it was a revolution. On Bobby Fischer, the best chess analysts disagreed, professional and amateur psychologists expended thousands of useless words for him, holders of capital at last released it on a stunned chess world, and the U.S. In short, it was the heyday of Fischer, the man of paradox, and a match difficult to comprehend. It was jeopardized by one man's demands for money, yet in a preliminary draft of an apology statement he renounced the entire purse and offered to play for the love of chess alone." It was a historic necessity that almost neglected to happen. It was a match in which the supreme individualist confounded the collective intelligence of the Soviet "team," in which the King's-pawn player par excellence emerged as a Queen's Gambiteer and won, in which the challenger famed for sharp and deadly play and 6-0 shutouts coasted to victory with a stretch of seven draws. It was the best of matches, it was the worst of matches it was a chess lover's dream, yet hovering on the brink of nightmare it was a feast of exciting chess, it disappointed the connoisseur. ![]()
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