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

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

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that ...

Boris Spassky, the Soviet chess grandmaster best known for his historic 1972 match against American Bobby Fischer, has passed ...

BOBBY FISCHER'S MATCH against the world chess champion Boris Spassky in 1972 still exerts a powerful fascination to this day. The American had never before beaten the Russian, and was two games down ...

However, the largest chess prize ever given to an individual was at the 1992 match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky in Yugoslavia. It was worth US$5,000,000 with the winner getting US$3.35 ...

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Bobby Fischer’s win over Soviet Boris Spassky amid the Cold War was seen as a symbol of American prowess in the intellectual arena. Today, Gukesh’s defeat of Ding heralds the emergence of a ...

Chess has a history of two of the sport’s greatest icons — Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov — getting into long-standing conflicts ... notably during his 1972 match against Boris Spassky. The mistrust ...