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Soviet chess giant Boris Spassky dies

The New York Times · 1d

Boris Spassky, Chess Champion Who Lost ‘Match of the Century,’ Dies at 88

When Mr. Spassky, a Russian, played Bobby Fischer, an American, in Iceland at the height of the Cold War, the media attention reduced them to pawns in a wider drama.

Boing Boing on MSN · 16h

RIP Boris Spassky: "one of the greatest chess players of the Soviet era and the world, but also a true gentleman"

Boris Spassky, the World Chess Champion who faced Bobby Fischer in the legendary "Match of the Century," died Thursday at age 88. Spassky was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), where he became a grandmaster at 18.

The Indian Express · 14h

Remembering Boris Spassky, and the Cold War-era ‘Match of the Century’ that defined him

The World Chess Championship of 1972, between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer, became a proxy for the Cold War between the USSR and the US

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Chess: England over-65s lead all the way to world senior team gold at Prague

The over-65s have been world champions three times in four years, but the over-50s finished out of the medals as USA claimed ...

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Paddy Upton reveals what it was like working with D Gukesh: 'Realised I was talking with a very special human being'

Mental conditioning coach Paddy Upton revealed what it was like working with D Gukesh in the build-up to and during the FIDE ...

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Gukesh reflects on inferior results following World Championship victory, eyes Carlsen clash in Norway

It’s been more than two months since D. Gukesh became the youngest world chess champion. But the celebrations haven’t stopped ...

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D Gukesh's coach 'knows nothing about chess'; said 'youngsters don't have self-awareness' but mentored ‘world champ’

Paddy Upton worked as D Gukesh's mental conditioning coach for the World Chess Championship in Singapore last year.

India Today on MSN17h

Match of the Century: When the Cold War was fought on 64 squares

The 1972 showdown between Russian chess grandmaster Boris Spassky and American grandmaster Bobby Fischer, which was dubbed ...

‘Cold War’ era USA-Russia chess battle returns, loser must take ‘polygraph' test

American GM Hans Niemann has accepted Russian GM Daniil Dubov’s challenge to prove his innocence in cheating scandal.

13don MSN

Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time

FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry ...

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Boris Spassky: The man who dared George Bush to put him and Bobby Fischer in same cell, “and give us a chess set”

Forever hyphenated with American Bobby Fischer, the genial Russian GM's most iconic moment came when he stood to applaud ...

Sports Tak on MSN2d

World No.1 Magnus Carlsen reveals the cheat code of being an unmatched Chess Player says, 'The difference between me and other kids is that...'

In the world of chess, Magnus Carlsen stands as a towering figure, often hailed as the greatest player in the history of the ...

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