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Jose Raul Capablanca: ` Cuban Chess Machine’
Capablanca is the idol of many current grandmasters. He, along with Bobby Fischer preferred open positions with long lines and clear developments. Simplicity rather than baroque complications were ...
The greatest match that never was — when Fischer and Karpov didn’t meet
The history of chess is riddled with missed opportunities.
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Chess-Russian grandmaster Spassky dies aged 88
"My idols in chess were Jose Capablanca and Boris Spassky ... for being the man who handed over the title to Bobby Fischer. "But he had chances to win that match. He may have lost by a wide ...
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Boris Spassky, Soviet-era chess champion who lost "match of the century" to American Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
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.
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Match of the century recalled as chess world mourns Spassky’s passing
He was 88. Spassky lost his world championship title in 1972 to America’s Bobby Fischer, in a match styled “Match of the Century.” Arkady Dvorkovich, president of the International Chess ...
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Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion who lost 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 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow.