Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion who lost famed Cold War-era match to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
at the height of the Cold War, became an international sensation and was known as the “Match of the Century.” When Fischer ...
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Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion who lost famed Cold War-era match to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
The televised 1972 match with Fischer, at the height of the Cold War, became an international ... the then-29-year-old chess genius from Brooklyn, New York, brought the US its first world chess ...
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Boris Spassky, Soviet Chess Champion Who Lost Famed Cold War-Era Match to Bobby Fischer, Dies at 88
Boris Spassky, Soviet Chess Champion Who Lost Famed Cold War-Era Match to Bobby Fischer ... the then-29-year-old chess genius from Brooklyn, New York, brought the U.S. its first world chess ...
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Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion and Cold War symbol, dies at 88
Fischer was an unlikely chess genius, a brash Brooklyn native known almost as much ... Mr. Spassky went home to a cold reception in the Soviet Union, where he had become a national disappointment.