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Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion and Cold War symbol, dies at 88
Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era chess grand master who lost his world champion title in 1972 to American Bobby Fischer in one of the most famous duels ... Chess Federation of Russia, which did not ...
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Russian chess grandmaster Boris Spassky dies at 88
Soviet chess grandmaster Boris Spassky, who was famously defeated at the height of the Cold War, has died at 88, the Russian Chess Federation announced Thursday. "The tenth world champion Boris ...
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Boris Spassky dead at 88: Russian chess grandmaster who played in ‘match of the century’ dies
FORMER chess grandmaster Boris Spassky has died aged 88. The Russian became world champion in 1969. He still held the title as he took part in the "match of the century" against American Bobby ...
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Chess-Russian grandmaster Spassky dies aged 88
PARIS, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Russian chess grandmaster Boris ... "For me, Boris Spassky was an entire era for chess. He became most famous, of course, for being the man who handed over the title ...
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Boris Spassky dead at 88: Russian chess grandmaster who played in ‘match of the century’ dies
He still held the title as he took part in the "match of the century" against American Bobby Fischer in 1972. The contest was inevitably a political one, given the Cold War conflict between the ...