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AnandvCarlsen13[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
George Duke wrote on Thu, Nov 14, 2013 08:59 PM UTC:
Another rest day and ChessBase
(http://en.chessbase.com/) article looks at Draws,
http://en.chessbase.com/post/wch-chennai-the-nature-of-draws, a tolerated
specialty unique to Chess, or modern/ancient f.i.d.e Chess anyway. 

That article  says Fischer-Spassky 1972 Games 14-20 were fighting Draws.  Were we right when we claim a year ago on the fortieth anniversary that Spassky should win Game 15: 
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=29404
 and http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=29413?
No one yet challenges the improvement.

Summary of the series then was: http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=29434.