...MOVE BY MOVE

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32977, 25 July 1972, Page 22

...MOVE BY MOVE

Moves in the sixth game between Spassky and Fischer (Fischer playing white): — 1: P-QB4, P-K3. 2: Kt-KB 3, P-Q4 1: P-Q4, Kt-KB 3. (The opening has transposed from the English to the queen's gambit declined.) 4: Kt-83, B-K2 5: B-Kts, 0-0. 6: P-K3, P-KR3. 7: B-R4, P-QKt3. 8: PxP. KtxP. 9: Bxß, Qxß. 10: KtxKt. PxKt. 11: R-81, B-K3. 12: Q-R4. P-QB4 (This is a well-known variation called the Tartakower variation, in which white has some pressure on black's queen's side pawns.) 13: Q-QR 3. R-81. 14: B-Kts. P-R3 15: PxP, PxP. 16: 0-0, R R2. 17: B-K2, Kt-Q2 18: Kt-Q4, Q-81. (Black is still under a little pressure, but his position is quite defensible.) 19: Ktxß, PxT 20; P-K4. P-Q5. 21: P-84, Q-K 2: P-K5, R-Ktl.

23: B-84, K-Rl. 24: Q-R3. Kt-81. 25: P-QKt3, P-QR 4. 26: P-85, PxP. 27: RxP, Kt-R2. 28: R<Rl)-81. Q-Ql. (White's command of the position has Increased notably and now he has a strong attack.) 29: Q-Kt3, R-K2. 30: P-KR4. R(Ktl)-Kt2. 31: P-K6, R(Kt2)-82. 32: Q-K5. Q-Kl. 33: P-R4 (preventing any counterplay on the queen side and maintaining an iron grip on the position. Spassky has 22 minutes left on his clock and Fischer has 44 minutes.) 33: Q-Ql. 34: R(Bl)-B2. Q-Kl. 35: R(B2)-B3. Q-Ql 36: B-Q3*. Q-Kl. (Spassky has 13 minutes left for the remaining four moves.) 37: Q-K4, Kt-83. 38: RxKt, PxR. 39: RxP. K-Ktl. 40: B-84. K-Rl. 41: Q-84, black resigns,