What were Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky doing in this picture?
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Susan Polgar
February 2, 2008
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Playing a game on Pocket Fritz!
Examining Anatoly Karpov’s stamp collection.
[A more thematic answer might be, looking for electronic bugs and dead flies in Anatoly Karpov’s stamp collection.:-]
They were probably playing on Bobby’s pocket set as the closing ceremonies of the 1972 World Championship Match was going on.
Spassky was such a humble gentlemen in this picture. Graceful in defeat.
They were analysing the final game of the game.
Yeah,,Spassky was a good sport about it.
I was there on the other side of the camera when this picture was taken.
This picture was taken during “The Ball of the Century” in Reykjavik, Iceland where Fischer was showing Spassky his analysis of the final position of the last game in which Spassky resigned the game and thereby the World Championship title.
Fischer later told me that Spassky had analyzed the position wrong.
Laughing at anti-semitic cartoons.
Sharing phone numbers of girlfriends they knew.
Does anyone know if Fischer ever engaged in post game analysis with Russians in any other matches or tournements? Why did he have to speak to Spassky at a closing ceremony? Was this his first opportunity, having finally attained WC title?