Boris Spassky, the World Chament Champion of Soviet lost the American degree Bobby Fischer In a legendary 1972 match, it became a proxy of cold war rivals, died on Thursday in Moscow. He was 88 years old.
His international death federation of the International Chess confirmed the government’s body. It is not a cause.
Spassky “was one of the biggest players of all time” The team said on social media. “Mark left indelible in the game”.
The Russian Chess Federation “had a great loss of great loss in the country, saying that chess players learned from his matches.
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The first one reacted to Soviet Grandmaster was Anatoly Karpov, who said Tass State News Agency: “It was always one of my major idols.”
Spassky in 1972 remembered with an American Bobby Fischer, which was a significant conflict between the East and the West. The duel was known as the name “Match”.
The Giant Soviet Chess lived a director of life, among the higher quarrels, against the best players of the past and in the periods of virtual disappearance.
He was born in 1937 in Leningrad, Saint Petersburg, Spassky showed a precious talent early, becoming a junior world champion and the main 18th century in history.
He said he learned to play in a orphanage at the age of five when Leningrad managed to escape his family, when the Nazis besieged in World War II.
After the war, the aggressive game of fearless sacrifice was noticed by his classmates and encouraged the states, gave him a scholarship and coach.
After a strong impression, in Soviet chess, he found in the shadow of another aspect called Mikhail Tal, “Riga magician”.
It wasn’t 1961 Spassky made a significant return by winning the URSS Championship.
Eight years later, he defeated his compatriot Tigran Petrosis to take the world degree.
“I’ve never had the goal of becoming myself in a world champion. Everything worked on its own. I made it on the jumps and borders,” Spassky said in 2016.
Jugoslav Grandmaster Svetozar Gligoric said Spassky’s secret force “to adapt its colossal skill to his opponent’s different styles” Washington Post reported.
“Colossial responsibility”
But Spassky kept his degree for three years.
In 1972 he played the game that would define his career in Iceland, against American Proscher.
When he was a major match with the cold war and the Soviet Union, Spassky said he won his son at 29 years old.
After a comfortable start of Spassky, the American won he won, since 1948 he finished a uninterrupted regatta for the Soviet World Champions since 1948.
Despite the knife on the face of Moscow, Spassky had a relief to remove the “colossal responsibility”.
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“You couldn’t imagine how I relieved Fischer when I removed my title. I freed from a very heavy burden and I breathed freely,” almost four decades later.
The iconic cold war has been the subject of duel books, documentaries and abundant films. Especially when Walter Tevis “The Queen’s Gambit” Walter Tevis inspired the novel, which was adapted to the famous Netflix series in 2020.
At the time, due to failure, Spassky fell from the benefit.
Four years later, in 1976, he moved to France after he married French French origin. He achieved French citizenship in 1978.
Spassky did not return to the public framework in 1992 until he played the Official Officer against Fischer in Jugoslavia.
The last years of his life were mysterious health disease and family conflicts.
After two strokes, he returned to Russia in 2012 with the help of a sponsor and his wife and sister’s advice.
“I have to start from scratch, but I’m not afraid,” said Spassky after returning to Russian television.
A few years earlier, in 2008, he visited the tomb of Fischer opponents He died that year And they buried in a small cemetery in Iceland.
“Do you think you think the adjacent place is available?” He asked the journalists visited by Spassky.
Spasssky lived in Moscow and his relatives reported his death federation, Alexander Tkachev reported his executive director Ria Novosti Agency.
The associated press helped this report.
