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Death of Boris Spassky: the Cold War on a chessboard in 1972
who was holding his own among America's greats by the age of 12 and has already won eight US chess championships. Grown up in the New York suburb of Brooklyn, Fischer became the world's youngest ...
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RIP Boris Spassky: "one of the greatest chess players of the Soviet era and the world, but also a true gentleman"
Boris Spassky, the World Chess Champion who faced Bobby ... He claimed the world championship in 1969 and held it until his ...
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Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion who lost famed Cold War-era match to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
is followed by a member of the Soviet Delegation to the world chess championships in Reykjavik, Iceland on July 5, 1972, after they walked out of a meeting representatives of Bobby Fischer ...
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Match of the century recalled as chess world mourns Spassky’s passing
Grandmaster and the tenth world chess champion (1969-1972 ) Boris Spassky of Russia died two Thursdays ago. He was 88. Spassky lost his world championship title in 1972 to America’s Bobby ...