Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion who lost Cold War-era match to 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, has died in Moscow ...
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Century High School chess team finishes in three-way tie for state championship
Century High School, defending champion Eastview High School and Eden Prairie High School all finished with 19½ points.
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Hans Niemann warns US chess, compares it with Indian ecosystem: ‘American chess will fade into obscurity’
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Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion who lost famed Cold War-era match to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
especially those of us who, like him, didn’t fit comfortably into the Soviet machine.” Spassky emigrated to France in 1976. On its website, the chess federation called Spassky’s match with ...