The Games of Boris Spassky – Part V – Fischer-Spassky 1992 Game 4

The Games of Boris Spassky – Part V – Fischer-Spassky 1992 Game 4

The 1992 Fischer-Spassky match in UN-sanctioned Yugoslavia was highly consequential to the sport of chess.  At five million dollars with the winner taking two-thirds, the purse was was astronomical.  No chess event in history has offered anything close to this prize, and it rivalled that of the best-paid sportsmen of the time:  Bobby Bonilla had recently signed for six million dollars a year to become baseball’s richest player, and Michael Jorda…