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Boris Spassky (Born 30 January 1937)

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DRAWN GAMES ARE EXCLUDED FROM "BLUNDERS" AND "AVG ERROR" DATA COLUMNS
YEAR AGE MOVES ANALYZED WHITE PTS PERCENT BLACK PTS PERCENT TOTAL PTS PERCENT BLUNDERS per 1000 MOVES AVG ERROR per WHITE MOVE AVG ERROR per BLACK MOVE AVG ERROR per MOVE COMPLEXITY – ALL GAMES COMPLEXITY – WINNING GAMES
1953 16 446 65.00 65.00 65.00 18.87 9.67 11.63 10.39 20.39 29.19
1954 17 627 85.00 61.54 71.74 5.94 10.50 14.36 12.22 20.91 26.26
1955 18 1291 68.52 64.29 66.36 9.03 8.54 10.25 9.48 18.78 26.44
1956 19 1343 68.52 48.33 57.90 12.10 9.15 9.35 9.23 20.42 26.95
1957 20 1257 70.00 62.07 65.74 1.61 9.59 9.08 9.30 21.71 31.88
1958 21 686 75.00 50.00 62.96 7.65 10.46 12.66 11.31 20.05 26.20
1959 22 1402 75.86 62.96 69.64 14.77 11.14 9.04 10.13 20.75 26.65
1960 23 1152 79.17 64.00 71.43 10.77 11.52 10.54 11.06 28.15 38.69
1961 24 1094 65.91 69.05 67.44 4.20 9.82 8.69 9.24 19.16 24.74
1962 25 1476 81.25 67.74 74.60 4.11 8.66 8.97 8.79 22.75 28.19
1963 26 579 61.54 65.39 63.46 4.51 17.32 9.34 13.31 16.47 24.37
1964 27 2291 79.27 60.64 69.32 5.68 7.86 7.21 7.59 18.52 25.61
1965 28 1502 64.29 68.75 66.67 5.18 11.26 10.05 10.67 20.07 28.77
1966 29 1883 66.67 48.84 57.32 4.29 7.83 6.24 7.28 13.27 21.99
1967 30 1358 73.08 56.45 65.71 5.34 9.78 7.88 9.11 20.40 28.25
1968 31 1436 79.31 62.96 71.43 7.04 9.72 9.50 9.64 21.13 25.67
1969 32 1386 67.24 55.17 61.21 5.13 10.66 8.04 9.74 15.29 24.22
1970 33 898 67.39 73.68 70.24 2.41 7.25 7.05 7.16 20.55 29.12
1971 34 916 76.32 57.14 66.25 13.92 12.23 7.75 10.04 23.59 29.44
1972 35 723 50.00 35.00 44.44 15.72 9.34 9.54 9.38 15.64 32.19
1973 36 1846 65.12 60.47 62.79 11.26 9.77 8.31 9.12 17.88 30.26
1974 37 1046 64.29 58.00 60.87 5.75 9.12 11.08 10.14 20.06 33.41
1975 38 854 72.50 55.56 64.47 7.53 9.52 9.61 9.56 21.61 29.27
1976 39 416 55.00 50.00 52.63 10.42 7.55 11.91 9.67 15.80 21.05
1977 40 1649 61.77 45.46 53.73 10.18 10.40 9.89 10.22 16.90 27.00
1978 41 981 74.00 50.00 63.04 7.03 9.45 9.43 9.44 19.21 27.02
1979 42 1177 62.50 48.33 55.65 12.50 10.38 12.68 11.34 19.01 33.33
1980 43 1018 64.58 55.77 60.00 0.00 9.83 7.36 8.72 14.52 22.22
1981 44 877 64.29 58.70 61.36 0.00 7.47 9.21 8.60 17.59 26.65
1982 45 1475 58.82 56.25 57.58 2.92 12.28 13.95 12.97 18.22 31.35
1983 46 1447 59.72 52.56 56.00 10.33 10.82 10.46 10.61 18.12 27.31
1984 47 883 54.35 65.39 60.20 4.81 11.80 8.29 9.50 16.30 22.03
1985 48 1325 64.71 56.94 60.71 4.15 8.01 6.86 7.44 17.99 26.79
1986 49 1636 60.87 60.20 60.53 4.50 9.08 8.36 8.70 18.11 29.99
1987 50 538 66.67 50.00 58.07 7.75 7.08 0.00 7.08 15.68 23.07
1988 51 1290 63.16 52.86 58.22 9.42 8.46 11.45 9.79 16.62 27.13
1989 52 1166 54.69 43.55 49.21 6.21 11.44 10.03 10.59 12.52 20.95
1990 53 887 62.50 55.56 59.21 4.73 11.46 10.21 10.84 15.16 28.03
1991 54 805 65.79 60.42 62.79 6.80 4.54 9.16 6.57 17.30 27.07
1992 55 796 53.33 30.00 41.67 10.96 12.73 12.31 12.52 18.05 35.94