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Boris Spassky, who lost famed chess match to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
It was not until 1961 that Spassky made a remarkable comeback by winning the USSR Championship. Eight years later he defeated his compatriot Tigran Petrosian to take the world title. "I never set ...
Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion and Cold War symbol, dies at 88
Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era chess grand master who lost his world champion title in 1972 to American Bobby Fischer in one of the most famous duels in the history of the game as well as a metaphor for ...
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In 1984, I claimed a moral win over him; got my greatest chess tutorial from him afterwards
Spassky was very strong from the white side in Caro Kann defence too and crushed Tigran Petrosian. They were good friends and he dethroned Petrosian for the world title in 1969 after a failed ...
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Boris Spassky, Soviet-era chess champion who lost "match of the century" to American Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
Eight years later he defeated his compatriot Tigran Petrosian to take the world title. "I never set myself the goal of becoming world champion. Everything worked out by itself. I was progressing ...
Boris Spassky, endlessly witty and a free soul, was more than just Fischer’s victim or a Soviet Union foot soldier
There was beauty in his brutal cavalier playing style and the Russian just couldn't be hemmed in by the iron-fisted communist ...