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Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champ who lost to Fischer, dies

Boris Spassky, Soviet-era chess champion who lost "match of the century" to American Bobby Fischer, dies at 88

Boris Spassky is best remembered for his duel with American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries.

El País in English · 2d

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

The New York Times · 2d

Boris Spassky, Chess Champion Who Lost ‘Match of the Century,’ Dies at 88

When Mr. Spassky, a Russian, played Bobby Fischer, an American, in Iceland at the height of the Cold War, the media attention reduced them to pawns in a wider drama.

5hOpinion

Trump Is No Bobby Fischer

The president isn’t playing 3-D chess in the war in Ukraine.

1don MSN

Boris Spassky, Grandmaster Of Grace & Grit

Mumbai: Boris Spassky, the 10th World Chess Champion whose 1972 clash with Bobby Fischer became a defining tableau of Cold ...

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