World champion will be famously remembered for the ‘match of the century’ against American Bobby Fischer in 1972Soviet chess grandmaster Boris Spassky, who was famously defeated at the height of the cold war, has died at 88, the Russian Chess Federation announced on Thursday.“The tenth world champion Boris Spassky has died at 88,” the federation said in a statement on its website, calling it a “great loss for the country”. Continue reading…
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Russian chess grandmaster Boris Spassky, dies aged 88
