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Shrewd or boorish? American chess prodigy defeated Soviet champion in '72 world championship match.

Chess park: When Bobby Haywood preceded Bobby Fischer, and then vanished

The Washington Square Park in New York sees chess hustlers dare passersby to a game under leafy canopies, earning as much as ...
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Boris Spassky, who lost famed chess match to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow. He was 88.
Corvallis Gazette-Times

Is reclusive grandmaster Bobby Fischer playing chess online?

LONDON - A British chess grandmaster is convinced that Bobby Fischer, one of the game's most legendary and elusive figures, is playing again - anonymously on the Internet. "I am 99 percent sure that I ...
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Bobby Fischer: The Greatest Chess Master Of All Time

Bobby Fischer rose through the ranks from a young age to become the King (and Queen and Knight and Rook…) of Chess. But amid all his accolades and admiration, trouble was brewing inside his singular ...
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Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion who lost famed Cold War-era match to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow. He was 88.
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Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion who lost to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88

MOSCOW — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow. He ...