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Leading
by 11 ½ - 8 ½, Fischer needed a win in the 21st game to clinch
the match. In a level position, Spassky blundered twice in the
endgame and was lost at adjournment. The
next day Boris Spassky resigned the match by telephone. Fischer at first refused to accept the legality of this,
preferring the customary signing of the scoresheet. Finally he acquiesced
and on Sept. 1, 1972, the match was over, Bobby
Fischer was
now the World Champion. |
