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Evening with Boris Spassky | Spassky-Bronstein
USSR Championship 1960 King's Gambit
Grandmaster
Larry Evans Lecture | Fischer-Evans
Game
Boris
Spassky Events
Simultaneous
Exhibition | Book Signing
Event | Chess Lecture
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Boris
Spassky Simultaneous Exhibition
Immediately following the lecture, Boris Spassky conducted a 26
board simultaneous exhibition in the tournament hall. See pictures
of the games in progress.
Boris spent close to 5
minutes looking over this next position which came out of an exciting
King's Gambit. Can you determine how this game concluded? Answers
are at the end of this article.
The final result was 21 wins for Spassky and 5 draws including one
draw against tournament organizer Jerry Weikel !
Boris
Spassky Book Signing Event
In the morning before the tournament started, Boris Spassky held
a book signing session for all interested parties in the chess bookstore.
Here he is seated with his wife Marina discussing a chess moment
with a participant.
Boris
Spassky Lecture regarding Chess
Between rounds in the tournament on Saturday, Boris Spassky held
a clinic with interested players in the tournament hall. He played
over a game that occurred in the simultaneous exhibition and came
up with some thoughts for the audience to ponder:
• Eliminate your opponent's active pieces.
• Don't automatically occupy a square when you can do so later,
in line with Nimzovich's the threat is stronger than the execution.
• He felt that Tal was a great chess pirate.
• He showed a puzzle
where the only checkmate in the position was to promote a pawn to
a knight (with your opponent's piece).
• He discussed some classic positions with Bishop's and pawns
that all good players should be aware of. He also dealt with some
examples of setting up stalemate positions in the endgame.
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