MOSCOW (AP) — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in ...
When Fischer won the international chess crown in Reykjavik, Iceland, the then-29-year-old chess genius from Brooklyn ... didn't fit comfortably into the Soviet machine." Spassky emigrated ...
Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, has died in Moscow.
When Fischer won the international chess crown in Reykjavik, Iceland, the then-29-year-old chess genius from Brooklyn ... didn’t fit comfortably into the Soviet machine.” ...
When Fischer won the international chess crown in Reykjavik, Iceland, the then-29-year-old chess genius from Brooklyn ... didn’t fit comfortably into the Soviet machine”.