CHESS RESULTS : Spassky Bests Fischer in 5th Game of Match
Boris Spassky of France defeated controversial American chess legend Bobby Fischer on Wednesday in the fifth game of their “revenge match of the century” in Sveti Stefan, Yugoslavia. Spassky, who also won Sunday’s fourth game, now leads the match, 2-1, with two draws.
Wednesday’s game repeated the opening of the third game until Fischer, playing white, varied at move 18. At move 24, Fischer’s temporary sacrifice of a pawn failed because Spassky struck back with a powerful 25th move. After a poor decision at move 28, Fischer had no chance to save the game.
Fischer, who had not competed in 20 years, has played relatively weakly in the last three games after strong performances in the first two.
The sixth game is scheduled today, The match will continue until one player wins 10 games.
The moves of Wednesday’s game are listed below.
Fischer-Spassky 5: 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 a6 4 Ba4 Nf6 5 0-0 Be7 6 Re1 b5 7 Bb3 d6 8 c3 0-0 9 h3 Nb8 10 d4 Nbd7 11 Nbd2 Bb7 12 Bc2 Re8 13 Nf1 Bf8
14 Ng3 g6 15 Bg5 h6 16 Bd2 exd4
17 cxd4 c5 18 d5 Nb6 19 Ba5 Nfd7
20 b3 Bg7 21 Rc1 Qf6 22 Rb1 b4
23 Ne2 Qe7 24 a3 bxa3 25 Bc3 f5
26 Bxg7 Qxg7 27 Nf4 fxe4 28 Nh4 g5
29 Ne6 Qf6 30 Qg4 Nxd5 31 Nxg5 hxg5
32 Qxd7 Nb4 33 Qxb7 Nxc2 34 Rxe4 a2
35 Rf1 Nb4 36 Rg4 a1Q 37 Rxa1 Qxa1+
38 Kh2 Qg7 39 Qf3 Qe5+ 40 g3 Rf8
41 Qg2 Qf6 42 f4 Ra7 43 Rxg5+ Rg7
44 Rh5 Qe6 45 g4 Rxf4, White Resigns.
