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From: Chess.com
From: Chess.com
10th World Champion Boris Spassky, 1937-2025
Peter Doggers
Updated: Feb 28, 2025, 3:57 AM ...
GM Boris Spassky, the 10th world champion of chess who defeated “Iron” GM Tigran Petrosian in 1969 to reach the chess Olympus and who lost his title to GM Bobby Fischer in the Match of the Century in 1972 in Reykjavik, died on Thursday aged 88. His death was confirmed by the Chess Federation of Russia.
Spassky, who was the oldest living world chess champion—a title now passing to GM Anatoly Karpov—was eloquent and funny, a freethinker, and an anti-Communist. In the late 1960s, he was the best player among the Soviet contingent that was put to a halt by Fischer.
"You can't imagine how relieved I was when Fischer took the title off me," Spassky would later say. "Honestly, I don't recall that day as unhappy. On the contrary, I've thrown off a very strong burden and breathed freely." ...
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10th World Chess Champion Boris Spassky, 1937-2025
GM Boris Spassky, the 10th world champion of chess, died on Thursday aged 88. His death was confirmed by the Chess Federation of Russia.www.chess.com
