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The Unorthodox Tactics of Spasky
Boris Spasky was down two games to none, a position from which no one had ever come back to win a chess championship. Fisher's unorthodox tactics had completely unnerved his opponent. After losing the sixth game, he started to cry. One grandmaster said, after this Spasky's got to ask himself if it's safe to go back to Russia. The KGB went on alert. A chemist found nothing unusual in them. Only things anyone found anywhere were two dead flies in the lighting fixture.