EL PAÍS English27d
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 ...
Indiatimes26d
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 ...
CBS News27d
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 ...
Hosted on MSN28d
Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion and Cold War symbol, dies at 88
who was defending a title he had won three years earlier by defeating Tigran Petrosian, another grand master from the Soviet Union. After that win in 1969, chess master Leonard Barden wrote ...