1972 chess match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky
World Chess Championship 1972
Defending champion
Challenger
Boris Spassky
Bobby Fischer
Boris Spassky
Bobby Fischer
8½
Scores
12½
Born 30 January 1937 35 years old
Born 9 March 1943 29 years old
Winner of the 1969 World Chess Championship
Winner of the Candidates Tournament
Rating: 2660[1] (World No. 2)
Rating: 2785[1] (World No. 1)
← 1969
1975 →
The World Chess Championship 1972 was a match for the World Chess Championship between challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States and defending champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. The match took place in the Laugardalshöll arena in Reykjavík, Iceland, and has been dubbed the Match of the Century. Fischer became the first American born in the United States to win the world title, and the second American overall (Wilhelm Steinitz, the first world champion, became a naturalized American citizen in 1888). Fischer's win also ended, for a short time, 24 years of Soviet domination of the World Championship.
The first game was played on July11, 1972. The last game (the 21st) began on August31, was adjourned after 40 moves, and Spassky resigned the next day without resuming play. Fischer won the match 12½–8½, becoming the eleventh undisputed world champion. The game was covered on ABC's Wide World of Sports and W.N.E.T. Channel 13 in the United States.[2]
^ abChess Informant 14, pp. 299–316.
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