Author: Joseph Merolle
Date: 06:41:10 01/26/03
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I would amagine that Spassky played strounger against Karpov considering there was not as much presure on the mock match however spassy still lost this match wow mabe Karpov was really stounger at this time when we originally thouht. JAMerolle On January 26, 2003 at 09:30:05, Bobby Ang wrote: >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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