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Game 1
Spassky, B (2548) – Portisch, L (2512) [C67]
Rapid Match Heviz HUN (1), 13.04.2007
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.0-0 Nxe4 5.d4 Nd6 6.Bxc6 dxc6 7.dxe5 Nf5 8.Qxd8+ Kxd8 9.Nc3 Ne7 10.Bf4 Ng6 11.Bg3 Ke8 12.Rad1 Bg4 13.Rd3 h5 14.h3 Bxf3 15.Rxf3 Rd8 16.Rd1 Rxd1+ 17.Nxd1 h4 18.Bh2 Rh5 19.Re3 Bc5 20.Re4 Kd7 21.b4 Be7 22.Ne3 Nf8 23.Kf1 Ne6 24.Ke2 g6 25.c3 Rh8 26.Ng4 Ng7 27.e6+ Nxe6 28.Ne5+ Ke8 29.Nxg6 fxg6 30.Rxe6 Kf7 31.Re4 Bd6 32.Bf4 Rh5 33.Be3 a5 34.a3 axb4 35.axb4 c5 36.b5 b6 37.c4 Rh8 38.Bg5 Ra8 39.Bxh4 Ra2+ 40.Kf3 Ra3+ 41.Kg4 Ra2 42.Bg3 Rd2 43.h4 Kf6 44.Kf3 Rd3+ 45.Ke2 Rc3 46.Bf4 Kf5 47.f3 Rc2+ 48.Bd2 Bg3 49.Rg4 Be5 50.Kd3 Ra2 51.h5 gxh5 52.Rg5+ Ke6 53.Rxh5 Bg3 54.Rh3 Be5 55.g4 Ra1 56.Rh6+ Kf7 57.f4 Bd6 58.Ke4 Rd1 59.Be3 Ra1 60.f5 Ra4 61.Kd5 Ra3 62.Re6 Rd3+ 63.Kc6 Rc3 64.g5 Rxc4 65.g6+ Kg8 66.Bh6 1-0
Portisch, L (2512) – Spassky, B (2548) [A95]
Rapid Match Heviz HUN (2), 13.04.2007
1.d4 f5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.g3 e6 4.Bg2 Be7 5.0-0 0-0 6.c4 d5 7.Nc3 c6 8.Bg5 Nbd7 9.Qb3 Kh8 10.Rad1 Ne4 11.Bxe7 Qxe7 12.e3 b6 13.Qa4 Bb7 14.Ne1 a5 15.cxd5 cxd5 16.Nf3 Ba6 17.Rfe1 b5 18.Nxb5 Nb6 19.Qa3 Qd7 20.Nc3 Nc4 21.Ne5 Nxe5 22.dxe5 Qc7 23.Ne2 Bxe2 24.Rxe2 Qxe5 25.Rc2 Rfb8 26.Rdc1 h6 27.h3 Kh7 28.b3 Rb4 29.Rc7 d4 30.exd4 Qxd4 31.Bxe4 fxe4 32.R7c4 Rxc4 33.bxc4 Rb8 34.Qc3 Qxc3 35.Rxc3 Rc8 36.c5 Kg6 37.c6 Kf6 38.Rc5 Ke7 39.Kf1 Kd6 40.Rxa5 Rxc6 41.Ke2 Rc3 42.Ra7 g5 43.a4 Ra3 44.a5 Ke5 45.a6 Ra2+ 46.Kf1 Ra1+ 47.Ke2 Ra2+ 48.Ke3 Ra3+ 1/2-1/2
Spassky, B (2548) – Portisch, L (2512) [C84]
Rapid Match Heviz HUN (3), 14.04.2007
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Be7 6.0-0 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.Nd5 Na5 9.Nxe7 Qxe7 10.d3 0-0 11.Bg5 h6 12.Bh4 Bg4 13.h3 Nxb3 14.axb3 Bxf3 15.Qxf3 g5 16.Bg3 a5 17.Ra2 a4 18.Rfa1 Rab8 19.bxa4 bxa4 20.Qe2 Nd7 21.f3 c5 22.Be1 Nb6 23.Ba5 Qa7 24.Qd2 Rb7 25.c4 Ra8 26.Bc3 Qb8 27.h4 f6 28.Kh2 Rba7 29.g4 Rb7 30.h5 Rba7 31.Kg3 Qb7 32.Qc2 1/2-1/2
Portisch, L (2512) – Spassky, B (2548) [A95]
Rapid Match Heviz HUN (4), 14.04.2007
1.d4 f5 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nf3 e6 4.g3 Be7 5.Bg2 0-0 6.0-0 d5 7.Nc3 c6 8.Bg5 Nbd7 9.Qd3 Ne4 10.Bxe7 Qxe7 11.Rac1 b6 12.cxd5 exd5 13.Rc2 Bb7 14.Qe3 Rae8 15.Qf4 Qd8 16.h4 Ba6 17.Re1 Nxc3 18.Rxc3 Bb7 19.Ng5 h6 20.Nf3 c5 21.Ra3 a6 22.dxc5 bxc5 23.Nd2 Ne5 24.Qa4 Nd3 25.Rxd3 1-0
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They are still playing good chess!
Interesting that Boris has taken up the Dutch — at last, we have something in common! 😉
I wonder if that was for this match alone, or it’s a change of repertoire for him?
Still, no King’s Gambit. 🙁
Game 4 makes no sense to me.
After Portisch moved 24. Qf4a4 (-1.0/10), why would Spassky make the apparent blunder of 24… Ne5d3 (+4.0/10), giving White a big advantage (of 4 pawns, as judged by a study 10 plies deep; which holds up at depth 13)?
And then, why would White suddenly lose the game, when White has such a big advantage?
White must have lost on time. Fine for the two players, crummy and pointless for thousands chess spectators.
Maybe better than “Rapid” time control of Game/20 plus a tiny 2 second increment, would be the older “Lightning” time control of 10 or 12 seconds per move, every move. Then loses on time, or due to an imbalance in time crunch, are rare.
GeneM
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GeneM:
Black blundered and resigned. White won the game. Makes sense to me.
jach
It is very interesting watching Spassky and Portisch playing again. Since Fischer”s time I havent seen them playing.
Jach,
I see what happened.
Fritz9 has a minor bug in it, whereby it messes up the final outcome display.
Fritz9 displayed to me “0-1”, when the PGN I fed into Fritz9 says “1-0”.
I have seen this Fritz9 bug before, and I mentioned it on the Chessville forum.
GeneM