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Farewell to the best loser in sporting history
Boris Spassky’s chess duel with Bobby Fischer at the height of the Cold War captivated the world. The defeated Spassky was ...
Hail the cerebral game
Divided into three parts and spread across 10 chapters, The Chess Revolution effectively covers aspects such as the meaning ...
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Noteworthy and influential people who’ve died this year
The world said goodbye last month to a man who’s been described as one of the greatest American actors of the 20th century.
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CHESS CORNER: Spassky remembered for creativity
Former World Chess Champion Boris Spassky passed away last week at the age of 88 years. In the Match of the Century in 1972, ...
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 ...
BORIS SPASSKY: END OF A GREAT ERA
The passing away of Boris Spassky Ex-World Chess Champion closes the glorious chapter of chess history but also it bids adieu ...
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'I am privileged to have known Boris...' : Indian Stalwart Viswanathan Anand reminisces meeting Late Chess Legend Boris Spassky for the first time in Heartfelt Tr…
Five-time chess world champion Viswanathan Anand penned an emotional tribute to Boris Spassky, the tenth world chess champion ...
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Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion who lost famed Cold War-era match to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
MOSCOW — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 ...