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RIP Boris Spassky: "one of the greatest chess players of the Soviet era and the world, but also a true gentleman"
Boris Spassky, the World Chess Champion who faced Bobby Fischer in the legendary "Match of the Century," died Thursday at age 88. Spassky was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), where he became a ...
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10th World Chess Champion Boris Spassky dies aged 88
Boris Spassky, the 10th World Chess Champion, has died at the age of 88 in Moscow, TASS reports In 1966, Spassky had lost to ...