Fischer finds the recipe for success
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Your support makes all the difference.SLIMMING and silence are two of the new ingredients in Bobby Fischer's recipe to recapture the chess form of his youth.
Playing a comeback match against Boris Spassky on the island of Sveti Stefan in Montenegro, Fischer changed his regime and brought immediate rewards with an equalising win on Saturday and a further win to take the lead on Sunday.
'I played pretty well,' Fischer said on Saturday, though Spassky's imaginative but over- optimistic play also appear to have contributed to the result. After the sixth game, in which Fischer narrowly avoided a third consecutive defeat, sources close to Fischer's doctors were reported to have diagnosed over-eating. After Fischer's 20 years of living on one meal a day, the rich and unlimited cuisine of Sveti Stefan was diverting his energies from brain to digestive system.
They prescribed a halving of his calorific intake, and 90 minutes' brisk walking and 45 minutes' swimming every day. Fischer demanded some changes of his own, including a glass panel between players and audience and a new rule that Spassky be allowed to sit down at the board only after Fischer was seated. Fischer now leads by three wins to two with three draws. The dollars 3.35m ( pounds 1.76m) prize will go to the first to score 10 wins. Here are the moves of the seventh game.
White: Fischer
Black: Spassky
1 e4 e5
2 Nf3 Nc6
3 Bb5 a6
4 Ba4 Nf6
5 0-0 Be7
6 Re1 b5
7 Bb3 d6
8 c3 0-0
9 d3 Na5
10 Bc2 c5
11 Nbd2 Re8
12 h3 Bf8
13 Nf1 Bb7
14 Ng3 g6
15 Bg5 h6
16 Bd2 d5
17 exd5 c4
18 b4 cxd3
19 Bxd3 Qxd5
20 Be4 Nxe4
21 Nxe4 Bg7
22 bxa5 f5
23 Ng3 e4
24 Nh4 Bf6
25 Nxg6 e3
26 Nf4 Qxd2
27 Rxe3 Qxd1+
28 Rxd1 Rxe3
29 fxe3 Rd8
30 Rxd8+ Bxd8
31 Nxf5 Bxa5
32 Nd5 Kf8
33 e4 Bxd5
34 exd5 h5
35 Kf2 Bxc3
36 Ke3 Kf7
37 Kd3 Bb2
38 g4 hxg4
39 hxg4 Kf6
40 d6 Ke6
41 g5 a5
42 g6 Bf6
43 g7 Kf7
44 d7 1-0
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