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Subject: Re: Karpov vs. Spassky Training Match before the 72 world championship

Author: Rolf Tueschen

Date: 08:41:25 01/26/03

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On January 26, 2003 at 09:41:10, Joseph Merolle wrote:

>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.
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>JAMerolle

The play of Karpov already then was superior to Spassky's. But we should see the
games. If Karpov's wording is aurhentic he must have won.

Rolf Tueschen

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>On January 26, 2003 at 09:30:05, Bobby Ang wrote:
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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."
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>>On January 26, 2003 at 09:16:56, Albert Silver wrote:
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>>>On January 26, 2003 at 09:08:53, Joseph Merolle wrote:
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>>>>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.
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>>>>Regards JAMerolle
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>>>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.
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>>>                                        Albert



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