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Leading by 11 ½ - 8 ½, Bobby Fischer needed a win in this 21st game to clinch the match. In a level position,
Boris Spassky blundered twice in the endgame and was lost at adjournment. The next day Boris Spassky resigned the match by telephone.
Bobby Fischer at first refused to accept the legality of this, preferring the customary signing of the scoresheet. Finally he acquiesced and on September 1, 1972 the match was over. Bobby Fischer was now the undisputed World
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