Lost or Sacrificed? - Fischer vs Petrosian Game 3 | Candidates 1971

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[horrortackleharry]

Fischer's best 'move' in this game was walking over to the arbiter to claim the draw!

[Robster]

Thank you. A most excellent game. Surprised to see Bobby drop a pawn so early in the opening, but he fought on of course.

[Haufpunk]

Nice to see Douglas Griffin getting a shout out. Does a great job with old games and photos.

[KrishnaKumar-nptw]

Great to be back on the road to Reykjavik!

[luigiaa]

"Russians vs Fischer" may be an excellent book, but the title is horribly wrong. It reminds me of one history during a tournament in Bled (in the 60s I think), where Fischer after having won against Geller and Tal, and still before his games against Petrosian and Keres, said: " I will win all 4 games against Russians". Keres answered: "It is absolutely impossible." Fischer asked why. Keres said: "Even if you won against Geller, you won against an Ukrainian and not a Russian. You won against Tal, but he is not Russian - he is Latvian. Even if you win against Petrosian, you will win against an Armenian and not a Russian. And even if you win the game with me, you will still not win against a Russian, because I am Estonian."

[stephenwolf]

Daniel King is the best in the business

[TBKGOLDY]

I loved this coverage very much mr. King.

[ME-kdko]

Looking closely at the first three games of this match, the conclusion has to be that Fischer was lucky to be 1.5-1.5, and not 0-3. He did indeed finish with four straight wins, but Petrosian played considerably better in the first half of the match.

[alvinrodney]

This just goes to show how sharp and resourceful GM Fischer was as a player over the chessboard. He knew the rule-book inside out and will fight to the tooth to claim any and every advantage possible. As the late world champ, Emanuel Lasker, once said, "Chess is, above all, a fight!"

[Peptoid]

Great chess channel. Should have been the popular one instead of you know who

[AndreaCremoni]

Here's Douglas Griffin's blog about Soviet Chess History that Daniel talked about in the video

[exneo]

Korchnoi .... He was a Viktor, not a Ferdinand :p

[bobdole]

Fischer can play knight c to e2 instead of the g knight and save the pawn, of course he didn’t lose the pawn??

[MEME-qeze]

only fischer knows if he lost or sacrificed that pawn...it’s unclear, but what is clear is petrosian screwed up! i bet he got a spanking from the kremlin on this game!