Author: Bobby Ang
Date: 06:30:05 01/26/03
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It is well-known that Karpov played a training match with Boris Spassky a few months before the 1972 world championship match. All Karpov would say then abut the match's result was "I did not lose." On January 26, 2003 at 09:16:56, Albert Silver wrote: >On January 26, 2003 at 09:08:53, Joseph Merolle wrote: > >> >>I was listening to Chess FM one night and one of the comintators mentioned >>how slothfel Spassky was before the Fischer/Spassky world championship. He >>seemed to indicated that Spassky should have had a sence of urgency after a mock >>match between Karpov and Spassky before the championship. My questiong is does >>anyone know what the results were of this mock match and where are the games. >>Those games should indicate really how far apart Karpov and Fischer really were >>at the time. Some dialog and answers on the topic would be great. >> >> >>Regards JAMerolle > >Karpov was still weaker than Spassky then most likely. He only edged close to >2700 by 1974-1975. Remember that he was quite young then. Still, this is the >first I ever heard of a training match between the two. > > Albert
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