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Top five male players with longest chess World No. 1 reign
Let's take a look at the top five male chess players who have spent the longest period as World No. 1. A Soviet Union/Russian player tops this list.
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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Boris Spassky, who lost famed chess match to 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.
Magnus Carlsen reveals the secret behind his greatness: 'It’s clear that there are some good genes'
World No 1 Magnus Carlsen isn’t just the standout chess player in the current generation, he is also considered one of the greatest to have ever played the sport. And in his recent appearance on ‘The ...
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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 ...
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Boris Spassky, Soviet-era chess champion who lost "match of the century" to American Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
One of the first to react was Soviet grandmaster Anatoly Karpov, who told TASS state news ... He said he learned to play chess at the age of five in an orphanage, having managed to flee Leningrad ...
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Former USSR chess grandmaster Boris Spassky dies at 88
The federation called his death a "great loss to the country", saying generations of chess players had learned from his matches. One of the first to react was Soviet grandmaster Anatoly Karpov ...
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Boris Spassky, who lost famed chess match to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
One of the first to react was Soviet grandmaster Anatoly Karpov, who told TASS state news ... He said he learned to play chess at the age of five in an orphanage, having managed to flee Leningrad ...