When the American Bobby Fischer challenged the Russian Boris Spassky for the World Chess Championship in 1972 the media looked on in fascination. It seemed the Cold War was being played out in ...
After beating Boris Spassky for the world title in 1972, Fischer dropped out of competition. He resurfaced in 1992 to beat Spassky again, in Yugoslavia. That got Fischer indicted: the Justice ...
It was fought in Iceland and it was a chess match - one between the American Bobby Fischer and the Russian Boris Spassky. "I'm just going to go in there. I'm not going stay up nights worrying.
The biggest tipping point for chess was the 1972 World chess championship between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky. It was the match that actually put chess in focus on a global level for the first ...
Eugene Torre became Asia’s first Grandmaster in 1974, two years after Bobby Fischer’s historic victory in the World championship match against Boris Spassky. The Filipino living legend ...
When compared to the intense drama and innovation of the Boris Spassky-Bobby Fischer encounters, Garry Kasparov-Anatoly Karpov duels, or even Viswanathan Anand's matches, this World Chess ...
It was fought in Iceland and it was a chess match - one between the American Bobby Fischer and the Russian Boris Spassky. "I'm just going to go in there. I'm not going stay up nights worrying.
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