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George Duke wrote on Sat, Aug 25, 2012 11:26 AM EDT:
There are 3 more games next week, final standings will have been 12.5-8.5. Just reversing the result of the classical all-time best game Game 6, which Spassky should win not Fischer, would yield 11.5-9.5. Besides Game 6, there are more scores already to re-tally in ongoing summary revision. We won't need Game 13 necessarily because of all the other findings, but more complete annotation follows. In Game_13, played Thursday 10.August.1972 at Reykjavik, Iceland, where returned Fischer died 5 years ago, 25 Qc3 is the bad move.

After 25 f5... instead,

If 25 ...e6 26 f6, Or if 25 ...f6 26 exg6, Or if 25 ...gxf5 26 Nxf5, Or if 25 ...g5 26 Bxg5, Or if 25 ...Nc4 26 Qc1, Or if 25 ...h5 26 g5. Prevailed upon to follow through, each of the above stands White better. Fischer won this Game 13 with the Black pieces but given the first 24 moves, White-Spassky should win with improved Move 25.

Now the favorite Game_6, mentioned above easily wins for Black not White by its correct Move 15 ...Rxc5. That example would switch the interim re-total to Fischer 11.5 and Spassky 9.5 after all the 21 games of championship played. Other single key move changes proven would have given Spassky, hypothetically doing the right thing, more points, yet to be itemized specifically here, and the tournament.


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