After draws in games 14 and 15, Fischer still had a three-point lead in the World Championship match, and the Spassky side was getting nervous. The Champion was fighting hard, but not getting any points. Suspicion arose that Fischer might be using secret weapons: hypnosis, devices planted in the lights or the chairs, and even perhaps assistance from an "IBM" (Russian for "computer" at the time). All this was formally investigated, while Fischer continued to coast.
Fischer leads by three points. The Match of the Century was coming to a head, with Spassky, despite all his efforts, unable to reduce the deficit. "I felt that Fischer was like a large fish in my hands," he lamented, "one that was slippery and hard to hold on to. At certain moments I let him slip. And then again the psychological torment would begin. Everything had to be begun again from the start ." Spassky was beginning to feel despondent. | Photo: Skáksamband Íslands
After the first two traumatic games World Champion Boris Spassky was leading 2-0 in the Match of the Century. But then Fischer started to play and struck back: in the next eight games he scored 6½ points, chalking up a 6.5-3.5 lead. Games 8, 9 and 10 were quite spectacular, and are the subject of today's report – exactly fifty years after game ten. Younger players will also learn about "adjournments" and how exactly "sealed moves" were handled. Some were born after these practices were abandoned.
Chaumont poster competition calls for entries with collage-based identity by DIA
Selected designs for the 29th edition will be shown at Le Signe during the third Biennale Internationale de Design Graphique, and join a renowned archive of 45,000 pieces.
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Chaumont international poster competition is calling for entries to the 29th edition of its respected graphic design showcase, with selected posters to be shown later this year as part of the Biennale Internationale de Design Graphique and added to its vast archive. Entrants also have the chance to win one of four awards with monetary prizes. The competition launched in 1990 “in order to value poster design on an international scale” and, from its entries over the years, has built an archive of over 45,000 pieces.