Bobby Fischer - Chess Champion

Designed for tablets. No internet connection required! Bobby Fischer - Chess Champion app shows all 20 games played in the world-championship-1972 match between Fischer and Spassky (Fischer refused to appear for game 2 giving a default win to Spassky).
Each game is shown move by move. Each move has its own diagram. In order to watch the games please keep the tablet in landscape position (horizontal). In order to see the comments of the game you are watching please turn the tablet in vertical position.
The World Chess Championship 1972 was a match for the World Chess Championship between challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States and defending champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union.
The first game was played on July 11.1972.The last game began on Aug. 31, was adjourned after 40 moves, and Spassky resigned the next day without resuming play.Fischer won the match 12½ - 8½, becoming the eleventh undisputed World Champion.In 2016, former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov commented on the global significance of the match, saying: "I think the reason you look at these matches probably was not so much the chess factor but to the political element, which was inevitable because in the Soviet Union, chess was treated by the Soviet authorities as a very important and useful ideological tool to demonstrate the intellectual superiority of the Soviet communist regime over the decadent West. That’s why Spassky's defeat was treated by people on both sides of the Atlantic as a crushing moment in the midst of the Cold War."
Fischer, an eccentric 29-year-old american, was a vocal critic of the Soviet domination of chess, because he believed that Soviet players gained an unfair advantage by agreeing to short draws among themselves in tournaments. In August 1962 Sports Illustrated, and then in Oct. the German magazine Der Spiegel, published a famous article by Fischer "The Russians Have Fixed World Chess" in which he expounded this view.The expectations on Spassky were enormous because for the Soviets, chess was part of the political system. While Fischer was often famously critical of his home country ("Americans want to plunk in front of a TV and don't want to open a book"), he too carried the burden of expectation because of the political significance of the match. No american-born player had achieved the world championship since the first champion. The excitement surrounding the match was such that it was called the "Match of the Century", even though the same term had been applied to the USSR vs. Rest of the World match just two years before.
Spassky, the champion, had lost the world championship match against Petrosian in 1966. In 1968, he won matches against Geller, Larsen, and Korchnoi to again win the right to challenge Petrosian for the title. This time Spassky won 12½ - 10½. He had a "universal style", "involving an ability to play the most varied types of positions". However, Kasparov notes that "from childhood he clearly had a leaning toward sharp, attacking play with a splendid feel for the initiative." Before the match, Fischer had played five games against Spassky, with two draws and Spassky winning three.
However, in the candidates matches en route to becoming the challenger, Fischer had demolished world-class grandmasters Taimanov and Larsen, each by a perfect score of 6 - 0, a feat no one else had ever accomplished in any candidates match. After that, Fischer had split the first five games of his match against former World Champion Petrosian, then closed out the match by winning the last four games. "No bare statement conveys the magnitude and impact of these results. Fischer sowed devastation. From the last seven rounds of the Interzonal until the first game against Petrosian, Fischer won 20 consecutive games, nearly all of which were against top grandmasters.
The games played in this match against Spassky are for Fischer what divine melody is for great composers! Enjoy!