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Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion who lost famed Cold War-era match to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
The televised 1972 match with Fischer, at the height of the Cold War, became an international ... the then-29-year-old chess genius from Brooklyn, New York, brought the U.S. its first world ...
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Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion and Cold War symbol, dies at 88
Fischer was an unlikely chess genius, a brash Brooklyn native almost as well known ... Mr. Spassky went home to a cold reception in the Soviet Union, where he had become a national disappointment.
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Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion who lost Cold War-era match to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
The televised 1972 match with Fischer, at the height of the Cold War, became an international ... the then-29-year-old chess genius from Brooklyn, New York, brought the U.S. its first world ...