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Sure enough, battling Boris attacked benevolent Bobby with a vengeance in the eleventh game. Fischer, playing black, followed the same risky, pawn-snatching opening that he had got away with in the seventh game, apparently believing that Spassky and his team of analysts had not yet worked out a suitable reply. Fischer was wrong. On the 25th move, Bobby suffered the humiliation of having his ambushed queen cut down by a lowly pawn. Though hopelessly lost, he played on for six more moves before resigning. "Fischer has never been knocked out as he was by Spassky," gloated one Soviet grand...
...Bobby Fischer, a twangy ditty sung by Joe Glazer and the Fianchettoed Bishops: "He was born in nineteen forty-three/ And right away I knew he'd make history/ 'Cause he opened his mouth on the day he was born/ And instead of crying he said, 'Move that pawn.' " The song goes on to depict Spassky as already defeated and hustled off to Siberia...
Fischer decimates rather than dazzles. He builds solid positional bases from which he launches attacks that are rarely devious and almost always total. When he has white, and thus the game's first move, he almost always opens with the centuries-old PK4 (moving the pawn in front of the king two squares forward). Though every grand master knows by rote the defenses against this stock opening, it is a part of Fischer's genius that he continues to fashion from it games that are freshly minted masterpieces of precision. "His judgment and feel for a position are un-equaled...
...called father of modern chess, suffered from a delusion in his later years that he could place a telephone call without wire or receiver, as well as move chess pieces at will by emitting electrical currents. He also claimed to be in touch with God, whom he offered a pawn handicap and the first move in a showdown chess match. He died a charity patient...
Come back he did. On a March afternoon in 1970, he strode resolutely across the stage of the Dom Sindikata Theater in Belgrade, sat down behind two ranks of white chessmen, reached across the table and shook hands with former World Champion Petrosian, shoved the king's pawn two squares forward, punched the button on the dual-faced time clock, pulled a Parker Jotter from inside his black and white checked Hong Kong suit, scribbled the notation PK4 on his score sheet and dug in. Nearly five hours and 39 moves later, Petrosian surveyed the shattered remains of his Caro...