In 1984, I claimed a moral win over him; got my greatest chess tutorial from him afterwards
Boris Spassky’s contributions to chess are commemorated through his remarkable games, including his rejuvenation of the Breyer defence and mastery of ...
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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Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
“The names of Karpov, the names of (Mikhail) Tal, (Tigran) Petrosian and others were known by everybody, even the people who never played chess.” The dominance enjoyed by Soviet players during ...
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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 ...