It was the game of the game, the match of all matches: Bobby Fischer versus Boris Spasski in Reykjavik (1972). After fighting at the chess board; and even more beside of it, Bobby Fischer made it and made it and made it. He was the first American citizen who became Chess Woldcampion. He not only managed his way through the matches genially but developed and performed a special and highly personalised sort of psychological embracement with which he thrilled and demoralised Boris Spasski and his Russian delegation so successfully that only because of that, for the first time in history chess itself became a topic of international VIP-awareness. Sport journalists who didn’t know anything about chess at all were sent from all over the world to Reykjavik. The only information they were provided with: «At the moment chess the big thing!»
First only Bobby Fischer always used to sit in his Time Life Lobby Chair designed by Charles and Ray Eames as this picture above shows, on which he plays against Petrosijan who sits on a different kind of chair. Important part of Bobby Fischer’s habbit
his own because it was a special gift by a special Bobby-Fischer-Fan who donated it to make the American play. We remember: Fischer didn’t show up because he was unhappy about the amount of the prize money. An American publisher lifted it so there was no reason to stay away from Reykjavik furthermore. After noticing a significant loss of self-confidence on Spasski’s side the Russian delegation asked the board for the same chair for him. Now Fischer insisted always to sit on «his» chair, a behaviour pattern which let the Russians fear that their chess champion’s chair was possibly poisoned – a fact that would explain Spasski’s unfortunate play because at that time he was three full points behind. Therefore
** FILE ** Bobby Fischer of the U.S. right, and Boris Spassky of Russia, play their last game together in Reykjavik, Iceland, in this Aug. 31, 1972 file photo. Fischer who renounced his U.S. citizenship, has died at the age of 64, Iceland’s Channel 2 television reported Friday, Jan. 18, 2008. (AP Photo/J. Walter Green, file).
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