Author: David Blackman
Date: 23:56:00 03/17/01
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On March 17, 2001 at 12:18:08, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >On March 17, 2001 at 11:54:13, Walter Eigenmann wrote: > >>Someone knows a chess tournament, in which the following players participated >>TOGETHER?: >> >>B.Fischer, B.Larsen, T.Petrosjan, B.Spassky, M.Tal, V.Korchnoj? >> >>Thank you: Walter > >I don't think they have ever been present in the same tournament. > >Enrique Most of them were at the Lightning tournament in Yugoslavia (Herzeg Novi or something like that was the name of the place?) in about 1970. Maybe even all of them. Fischer won, a large gap second :-) Tal and Korchnoi did pretty well, i think. At more normal time controls, i don't think they were ever all at the same tournament. Tournaments where 8 of the top 10 turn up for a 12 player round robin are actually quite a recent thing. They just didn't have them 30 years ago. Some Olympiads would have gone close. Fischer hardly ever played Olympiads, but i think you might find the other 5 at several. Back when they had candidate's tournaments (before they switched to knock out matches) you could find most of them together but probably not all 6. I don't think Larsen reached the candidate's until the late 1960s and by then they were matches. As someone else noted, there was the USSR vs Rest of World match circa 1970. Larsen on board 1, Fischer on board 2! I think Spassky was board 1 for USSR. Tal was about board 10, against Najdorf i think. I'm pretty sure Petrosian and Korchnoi were there too, but can't remember their board numbers. There were probably 4 of the 6 at several USSR championships :-)
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