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Boris opened the door to the world of chess
Spassky was nearly as brilliant. His was a household name among those who who grew up playing chess. It was a game that ...
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Boris Spassky, Soviet Chess Champion Who Lost Famed Match to Bobby Fischer, Dies at 88
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Spassky: Legendary loser of ‘match of century’ dies
MOSCOW—Soviet chess grandmaster Boris Spassky, who was famously defeated in the so-called match of the century at the height ...
Boris Spassky, who lost famed chess match to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
Boris Spassky is best remembered for his duel with American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for ...
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Match of the Century: When the Cold War was fought on 64 squares
The 1972 showdown between Russian chess grandmaster Boris Spassky and American grandmaster Bobby Fischer, which was dubbed ...
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How Jan Henric Buettner tried to make the sport more interesting with Freestyle Chess
“Is this something that you get in the pharmacy for your cold?” It wasn’t. But it did cause the German’s eyes to widen in excitement. Story continues below this ad Fischer Random 960 was a format made ...