Body: <p>I remember reading somewhere that Leonid Stein (one of the top players at that time) has ridiculed Bobby Fischer for grabbing the poisoned pawn in the Najdorf Sicilian during the Spassky-Fischer match in 1972. I wonder if that is really true. Perhaps it was a journalist's way of attracting readers' attention. Can anyone point me to a source of the citation?</p>
  
Tags: <fischer><najdorf>
Title: Did Stein really ridicule Fischer for grabbing the poisoned pawn in the Najdorf Sicilian?
ThreadText: # Did Stein really ridicule Fischer for grabbing the poisoned pawn in the Najdorf Sicilian?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-05-27)
  
  I remember reading somewhere that Leonid Stein (one of the top players at that time) has ridiculed Bobby Fischer for grabbing the poisoned pawn in the Najdorf Sicilian during the Spassky-Fischer match in 1972. I wonder if that is really true. Perhaps it was a journalist's way of attracting readers' attention. Can anyone point me to a source of the citation?
  
  **Tags:** fischer, najdorf
  
  
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