At six o’clock, the main Arbiter German Lothar Schmidt starts Fischer’s clock and thus, the beginning of game
four. However... none of the players is present. This is the first time that the World Champion
Spassky is not by the board at the beginning of the game. At 6:04, Boris Spassky enters the auditorium and takes a seat and
six minutes later Bobby Fischer appears and does the same. Fischer starts the game by advancing his King’s Pawn
two squares: 1. e4 |