The Soviet-era former chess prodigy, who played in “one of the most iconic” games in history against American Bobby Fischer ...
He defended his World Chess champion title against American Bobby Fischer in the “Match of the Century” in 1972 — which ...
Boris Spassky is best remembered for his duel with American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for ...
Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that ...
When Mr. Spassky, a Russian, played Bobby Fischer, an American, in Iceland at the height of the Cold War, the media attention ...
Soviet chess legend Boris Spassky, who lost the 1972 "Match of the Century" to American Bobby Fischer in a Cold War-era ...