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Death of Boris Spassky: the Cold War on a chessboard in 1972
Fifty years ago, the Cold War was transposed to a chessboard as Bobby Fischer of the United ... Spassky has accepted Fischer's demand that they play in a small back room (with a camera ...
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Boris Spassky, Soviet-era chess champion who lost "match of the century" to American Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
Spassky is best remembered for his duel with American Bobby Fischer in 1972 ... He said he learned to play chess at the age of five in an orphanage, having managed to flee Leningrad with his ...
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Boris Spassky, the chess player who was a victim of Bobby Fischer but also much more
The world champion, dethroned by the American in the middle of the Cold War, died on February 27 in Moscow at the age of 88 after a life worthy of the movies ...
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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 famed Cold War-era match to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
FILE - Bobby Fischer, right, and Boris Spassky play their last game together in Reykjavik, Iceland, Aug. 31, 1972. (AP Photo/J. Walter Green, File) ...