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Fischer-Spassky Game 6 (view source)

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Spassky had played this defense often in tournaments and had never lost with it.
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Fischer shocked the world by opening with 1.c4, which virtually never did in big games.  His favorite was always 1.e4 as an opening.
 
Fischer shocked the world by opening with 1.c4, which virtually never did in big games.  His favorite was always 1.e4 as an opening.
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But Spassky was very familiar with a 1.c4 opening by white and had no trouble counter it with excellent defenses, even offering a [[gambit]] which Fischer declined.
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Spassky had thought about the possibility of a surprise 1.c4 opening, and had told his advisers that he would handle it with Tartakower's Defense in response (7...b6). Spassky had played this defense often in tournaments '''''and had never lost with it'''''.  Spassky even embellished it with a Queen's Gambit, which Fischer declined.
 
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