This is Game Six in the Fischer-Spassky match of 1972 in Iceland. Fischer had never played the White side of a Queen Pawn Opening before in competitive chess. He was exclusively a King Pawn or e-4 player. He knew the King’s Pawn Openings better than any other player who ever lived. Opponents came to him well prepared; they knew in advance what his first move would be. It made no difference. Spassky, on the other hand, was a feared Queen Pawn or d-4 player.
He was perhaps the best Queen Pawn player in the world at the time. Fischer deliberately wandered into his milieu and sent shock waves across the chess world.
Harry Golombek, a British chess master writing for the Times of London, likened the game to “a Mozart symphony,” so precise was its execution and so beautiful and perfect were the moves.
At the end of this game, the Soviet aristocrat Boris Spassky stood up unashamedly and applauded Fischer. It is my distinct honour readers, to give you the genius of Bobby Fischer.
Fischer, Robert James (2785) – Spassky, Boris V (2660)
World Championship 28th Reykjavik (6), 23.7.1972
1.c4 e6 2.Nf3 d5 3.d4 Nf6 4.Nc3 Be7 5.Bg5 0-0 6.e3 h6 7.Bh4 b6 8.cxd5 Nxd5 9.Bxe7 Qxe7 10.Nxd5 exd5 11.Rc1 Be6 12.Qa4 c5 13.Qa3 Rc8 14.Bb5 a6 15.dxc5 bxc5 16.0-0 Ra7 17.Be2 Nd7 18.Nd4 Qf8 19.Nxe6 fxe6 20.e4 d4 21.f4 Qe7 22.e5 Rb8 23.Bc4 Kh8 24.Qh3 Nf8 25.b3 a5 26.f5 exf5 27.Rxf5 Nh7 28.Rcf1 Qd8 29.Qg3 Re7 30.h4 Rbb7
And now Fischer finishes things off with brutal efficiency.
31.e6! Rbc7 32.Qe5 Qe8 33.a4 Qd8 34.R1f2 Qe8 35.R2f3 Qd8 36.Bd3 Qe8 37.Qe4 Nf6 38.Rxf6 gxf6 39.Rxf6 Kg8 40.Bc4 Kh8 41.Qf4 1-0 Black Resigns!