See, that was when a mad, maverick American by the name of Bobby Fischer ... the smartest people. Fischer won, and pretty much lived off it ever afterwards. Spassky died last week, aged 88 ...
Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in ... unofficial rematch against Fischer in Yugoslavia in 1992. The last years of his life were ...
This year marks the 50th anniversary of another epic might-have-been: the first title defense by American champion Bobby Fischer ... Kasparov struggles to the last, but White is remorseless ...
MOSCOW — 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 Moscow.