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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
Личное дело Николай Николаевич Миклухо-Маклай (1846 – 1888) родился в селе Языково-Рождественное Новгородской губернии в семье инженера-путейца. В 1859-1863 годы учился во Второй петербургской гимназии. За участие в студенческой манифестации в 1861 году пятнадцатилетний гимназист был арестован и содержался трое суток в Петропавлов...