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, 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 ...
Soviet chess legend Boris Spassky, who lost ‘match of the century’, dies at 88
The federation called his death a "great loss to the country", saying generations of chess players had learned from his ...