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    Boris Vasilievich Spassky (Russian: Бори́с Васи́льевич Спа́сский, tr. Borís Vasíl'yevich Spásskiy; born January 30, 1937) is a Russian chess grandmaster...
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  • The 1992 Fischer–Spassky match between former world chess champions Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky was billed as a World Chess Championship, though it...
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    match against Tigran Petrosian, Fischer won the title match against Boris Spassky of the USSR, in Reykjavík, Iceland. Publicized as a Cold War confrontation...
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    challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States and defending champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. The match took place in the Laugardalshöll arena...
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  • War and culminating in the World Chess Championship 1972 match versus Boris Spassky in Reykjavík, Iceland. It was directed by Edward Zwick and written by...
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    A World Chess Championship was played between Tigran Petrosian and Boris Spassky in Moscow from April 9 to June 9, 1966. Petrosian won. An interzonal...
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    that the title was not at stake. Fischer–Spassky (1992 match) – rematch between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky in Belgrade 20 years after their first match...
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  • chessgames.com. "Tigran Petrosian vs Boris Spassky (1966) "Boris Bad and Off"". www.chessgames.com. "Boris Spassky vs Tigran Petrosian (1969) "Taming the...
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  • José Raúl Capablanca, 2552 Emanuel Lasker, 2550 Viktor Korchnoi, 2535 Boris Spassky, 2480 Vasily Smyslov, 2413 Tigran Petrosian, 2363 These "Divinsky numbers"...
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    first Soviet title. Boris Spassky vs. Tal, USSR Championship, Riga 1958, Nimzo-Indian Defence, Sämisch Variation (E26), 0–1. Spassky plays for a win to...
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