Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion who lost famed Cold War-era match to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
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 ...
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Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion who lost to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
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 ...
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Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion who lost famed Cold War-era match to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
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.” ...
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Chess champion Boris Spassky dies aged 88
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”.