The simultaneous game with the chess grandmasters

Замир Осоров
Robert Fisher, when he met Boris Spassky in Reykjavik in the match for the world chess title in the 70s of the last century, knew that on the side of his opponent played a whole team of the strongest Soviet grandmasters who analyze his every move and in between games, tell Spassky the best options, combinations and moves. Although he, perhaps, did not know then that the Politburo of the USSR and personally the General secretar of Communist Party Leonid Brezhnev were following the course of events in anticipation of another great triumph of soviet chess school.

Fisher was completely alone against such a formidable team, which, it seemed, was impossible to defeat.

To turn the tide in the 6th game, Fischer played a game completely unfamiliar in chess, violating all rules, traditions and crossing out all achievements of past in this game, shocking the world champion and his team of assistant grandmasters. The tone of the game was set by the flank pawns and light attacking figures and grandmasters, feverishly sorting through all the game discoveries and combinations developed and well-studied over the past two centuries, they could not do anything against such a strange debut and illogical cascade of moves, lunges and punches from Fisher.
Although grandmasters are able to count and look for 10-15 moves ahead - and some even for 20 moves forward on the chessboard (the good chess player commonly do this for three moves), the brilliant American managed to replay and cheat all of them, confuse their collective mindset and considerations and somehow looking into the future of chess beyond all these limits and collective calculous of this grand soviet chess school.
After this victory, Fisher was easily defeating Spassky in every new game. This is how the 50-year domination of the Soviet collective school in the production of world champions was ended. It was a session of the simultaneous game of Fisher with Spassky and all the strongest grandmasters of the USSR, and to win he had to win on all boards - and he done it.
The mentioned 6th game remains as something like 9th - moonlight - sonata of Beethoven.  Or more precisely, the Mozart’s 41st symphony, called Jupiter, would probably be more suitable comparison.
In chess, Fischer was like Maradona in football, when during the World Cup in the 80s of the last century, in order to get the Argentine team to the final and make her world champion, Diego alone beat almost the half England team and scored a victorious goal. The same thing happened in the final, during a meeting with Germany. The most harmonious team on the planet could not resist the football genius who did everything he wanted on the field, turning opponents into something like a team of amateurs from local farm.