For you Fischer or Spassky fans, here is a video clip of Fischer and Spassky back in 1972, courtesy of BBC.
Special thanks to Mr. Lawrence Totaro of Las Vegas for the information. 
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fantastic docu!
Thank you Susan, amazing piece! I am enjoying your site more and more each day. “Retro-news” are amazing.
Susan, I just hope Chessdebase does not start copying your ideas. They already copyied your caption fun (but since they do not like to let their readers express their ideas –unless they publish only the letter they decide to publish– it was preatty lame.
To Bobby Fisher fans (I am one) this is what made Fisher great. Not defending the title didn’t make him better, just sad. As good as Fisher was, a better champion is the one who defends his title, I really hope Kramnik will defend his and not hide like Bobby did.
Kramnik has defended his title twice in 6 years.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9gO5Cro1qUE&mode=related&search=
http://youtube.com/watch?v=C9XgReXHWw8
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CEcIFtLIYi0&mode=related&search=
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4541496609580910866&q=chess
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7831006117106424885&q=chess
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1120945165980720333
Great stuff.
Thanks a lot Susan.
Susan, thank you for providing this link. The greatest thing Bobby Fischer did was to inspire a whole generation of American children to learn and play chess. He made it possible to have a chess club at my school. Chess had always been looked down upon (for some unknown reason) in our culture. Fischer made it possible for chess to gain respect in the U.S. Just look around at all the progress we have seen in the last 34 years…it all started with Bobby Fischer.
Great documentary….is there any way to download it? Its the best one I’ve ever seen on this subject.
Mike M
A amazing moment of chess history…I feel we missed what might have been…I often think that at least we saw and experinced what R Fisher did and gave us
NOTHING ABOUT FISHERS CHESS
OR HIM WAS EVER EASY
Bobby Fischer took on the Russian World Chess Champion Boris Spassky, and with the whole weight of the chess world upon his shoulders, he won the match, and became the next new World Chess Champion.
He later payed Spassky again in another match that sealed his victory for the second time.
He proved himself to be not only a great chess player, but a brave individual, who was willing to challenge the entire Russian Chess Federation, and publicly challenge and defeat them in the process.
He went through more than any other chess player has so far, to become a World Chess Champion. The present Chess Champions have never had to face the awesome task of playing the entire Russian Chess World, at the same time as playing it’s Chess Champion Boris Spassky. Has Karpov? Has Kasparov? Has Kramnik? The answer is no.
Would Bobby Fischer defeat any one of these players in a regular Chess Tournament, I have no doubt that he would, it would be a grueling exercise, but he would walk away the winner, and by doing so, would put himself in the same class historically as Paul Morphy. An Immortal Chess Champion for all of the Ages.
Mike M… Use the link below to download movies from google, youtube, etc…
http://www.videodl.org/
Ms. Polgar… thank you for the link! And great blog you have here. Please keep up the good work..
Fischer was a great World Champion and what he achieved in 1970 to 1972 has never been seen, a completely dominant World Champion except when Paul Morphy proved he was head and shoulders better than any chess player from his era. He did defeat by himself the whole Russian chess might of chess grandmasters.
Anonymous,
You cannot download those movies from Youtube or Google because the movies are not a FLV extension but in WMV format.