Boris Spassky, Soviet Chess World Champion, who lost the “game of the century”, dies for 88 years –

Boris Spassky, one of the best chess players ever, died on February 27 at the age of 88. The Soviet world champion took part in the so -called “game of the century”, a duel against the American Bobby Fischer for the world championship title in the context of the Cold War between the United States and the disadvantage company, which had an impartial repercussion for a CHESS -CHESS agreement.

Spassky was born in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, and learned to play from chess before reading and writing. He became tenth world champion in 1969, but lost the title to Bobby Fischer three years later. The American victory, which only temporarily ends – Soviet dominance on the chess, became Fischer in a star and left Spassky in a state of depression, and lost his second Marries, followed by KGB …

Things would not stay for much when Fischer blew his chances of defending the title after he had not agreed to the rules, and lost the world championship title in 1975. In the meantime, Spassky returned to play chess, to get credibility in the Urss, but moved to France, again married French citizenship.

These are some only small parts of the incredible story of these two grand masters, as in Reading in The Washington Post.

Anatoly Karpov, who followed fishermen as world champion between 1975 and 1985, said “Spassky was a real and unique all -rounder. He defended and attacked equally well and collected the superiority of positioning. He began falling in love with the universality, which continues to this day“As recorded by the Chess Association of Russia.