FS 1972 + 20 = FS 1992

For the last few months I've been running a Fischer Friday series, focused on the 1972 Fischer - Spassky Title Match (m-w.com). Now it's time to change the subject, if only for a few weeks. Twenty years to the day after Spassky resigned the 1972 match, a new match began:-

• 1992 Fischer - Spassky Rematch; Sveti Stefan/Belgrade (m-w.com)
• 1992 Fischer - Spassky Rematch; Highlights (ditto)

Unfortunately, I don't have much in my photo archive about the 1992 match. The following composite image shows the wirephotos that I found. These are black-and-white photos, although there are also many color photos documenting the match.

That composite is inspired by a pair of posts I've been using as an illustrated guide to the 1972 match:-

• 2016-03-08: Fischer Wirephotos I
• 2016-03-10: Fischer Wirephotos II

In the top line of the composite image, the first two photos are from game one of the 1992 match. The last two photos show Zita Rajcsanyi [Rajcsany], plus the start of the eighth game.

The first photo in the bottom line shows Fischer meeting Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. It is followed by a photo from the 30th (and last) game plus two photos of Fischer wearing a wreath marked 'The World Chess Champion'. The last three photos have the same date.

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It's a good time to take a checkpoint on the Fischer Friday series to date. Posts marked '(*)' were not part of the series, but are nevertheless relevant.

• 2022-04-29: The Joke's on Me • 'It was stunning news from the U.S. chess federation...'
• 2022-05-06: The Fischer Patent • 'US4884255A - Digital chess clock'
• 2022-05-13: Fischer's Storage Locker and eBay
• 2022-05-20: Bobby Fischer Day by Day • bobby-fischer-1972.blogspot.com (see also below)
• 2022-05-21: Bobby Fischer in 1996 (*) • Chess960 (Fischer Random Chess)
• 2022-06-17: Legends of the 1972 Match
• 2022-06-24: Hatchet Job • 'Bobby Fischer vs. the Rest of the World' by Brad Darrach
• 2022-07-01: According to Darrach, Day by Day
• 2022-07-08: Fox Films (Not) • Chester Fox
• 2022-07-10: Chinese Whispers (*) • The movie 'Pawn Sacrifice'
• 2022-07-15: Drawing for Colors in 1972 • Gudmundur Thorarinsson
• 2022-07-22: 'Only an IM' • Iivo [or Ivo] Nei
• 2022-07-29: Spassky's Team • Ivo Nei, Boris Spassky, Nikolai Krogius, Efim Geller; 'Russians Versus Fischer' by Plisetsky and Voronkov
• 2022-08-05: Cold Warriors of Chess
• 2022-08-12: Fischer - Spassky Tickets
• 2022-08-19: Bags of Loot • Patrick Bruce "Pat" Oliphant
• 2022-08-26: GM Svetozar Gligoric, Player/Journalist
• 2022-08-28: Was Fischer Avaricious? (*)
• 2022-08-30: Olympiad, Business, and Political Yahoos (*) • 'Many other chess organizations have been honoring the match, including two of the most influential chess resources, seen together here [World Chess Hall of Fame & Chessbase]'
• 2022-09-01: September 1972 & 1997 'On the Cover' • 'The date of today's post, 1 September, marks 50 years since the historic match ended.'
• 2022-09-02: Benson Called Bobby (*) • '"Hello, Hahrry! There is new world champion! I have just resigned."'
• 2022-09-09: Fischer - Spassky Zeitgeist • GM Gligoric: 'The match opened a new, unforeseen chapter in the history of this noble game'

Also worth noting are three related resources, the first two of which are valuable external references.

• Bobby Fischer 1972 (bobby-fischer-1972.blogspot.com) • See the post dated '2022-05-20'.
• Le match du siècle 1972 (histoire-echecs-philatelie.com) • See the note to the post dated '2022-08-26'.
  
  
• Showing posts with label C08: 1970-72 • My World Championship blog

I plan to come back to the 1972 match, but first I'll spend a few posts exploring the 1992 rematch.