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 ...
Boris Spassky, former world chess champion, died in Moscow at 88. He was best known for his 1972 "Match of the Century" loss to Bobby Fischer. The International Chess Federation called Spassky "one of ...
Displayed below is a 1972 Iceland commemorative cover of the famous Spassky-Fischer championship match, signed by both men. Probably the greatest chess player the world has ever seen, Fischer ...
When Mr. Spassky, a Russian, played Bobby Fischer, an American, in Iceland at the height of the Cold War, the media attention reduced them to pawns in a wider drama. By Dylan Loeb McClain Boris ...
REYKJAVIK, ICELAND, Sept. 1 – Bobby Rischer of Brooklyn is world chess champion, the first American to hold that title since it was established 1866. This morning when it was announced that Russian ...
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 Moscow. He was 88.
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