An Overdue Goodbye

In an in-depth interview with ChessBase, Ukrainian Grandmaster Adrian Bohdanovych Mikhalchishin called The World Chess Championship. The Chess Champion Bobby Fischer vs. the Challenger Boris Vasilievich Spassky. The Revenge Match of the Twentieth Century “a fantastic match, though it was, at the time, underestimated because Yugoslavia was under sanctions, and it wasn’t widely publicised. It was even criticised by Kasparov and Karpov for the level, but the level was much higher — as we now realise — than some of their matches”.

Fischer and Spassky shake hands before their first game in the World Chess Championship Revenge Match of the Twentieth Century in Sveti Stefan, Yugoslavia, September 2 1992. Photo: Dragan Filpović/Getty Images.