Boris Vasilievich Spassky (Russian: Бори́с Васи́льевич Спа́сский; born January 30, 1937) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was the tenth World Chess Champion, holding the title from 1969 to 1972. He is the oldest living former world champion. Spassky won the Soviet Chess Championship twice outright (1961, 1973), and twice lost in playoffs (1956, 1963), […]
Match of the century flashback (September 1, 1972)
Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky to become the first American world chess champion in 1972 (Originally published by the Daily News on Sept. 2, 1972. This story was written by Robert Byrne.) REYKJAVIK, ICELAND, Sept. 1 – Bobby Rischer of Brooklyn is world chess champion, the first American to hold that title since it was […]
Chess Memories!
Polgar sisters, from the beginning to Olympiad Gold Medalists! Memories! Battles vs Legends! (Tal, Botvinnik, Smyslov, Spassky, Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov)
Passing the big Open challenge with flying colors
Magnus Carlsen emulates Boris Spassky and reaps reward at Qatar Open Leonard Barden Friday 1 January 2016 15.19 EST Magnus Carlsen’s bold decision to play in an open tournament, the first reigning world champion to do so since Boris Spassky in 1971, paid off handsomely this week at Qatar when the 25-year-old Norwegian won first […]
The biggest impact in chess history
Chess by Shelby Lyman on August 22, 2015 – 12:01 AM According to the grandmaster and chess historian Yuri Averbach, chess was played throughout most of Europe by the 11th century, Originally, a training tool for the warring upper classes, it gradually gained popularity among the populace at large. The game, says Averbach, “attracts people […]
Where did the Match of Century take place?
Bobby Fischer Chess GameFEBRUARY 10, 2015 14:44UPDATED: FEBRUARY 10, 2015 14:53 Q: Wasn’t the championship chess match with Bobby Fischer also played in the historic Peace House? Robert W. Quelch A: The World Chess Championship match between Fischer and Boris Spassky of the USSR in Reykjavík in 1972 took place in the Laugardalshöll arena. Fischer […]
Tobey Maguire, Liev Schreiber & Pawn Sacrifice crew Invited to the WC Match in Sochi
Tobey Maguire, Liev Schreiber and the Pawn Sacrifice crew Invited to the World Chess Championship Match in Sochi Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Pawn Sacrifice
Tobey Maguire nails chess legend Bobby Fischer in ‘Pawn Sacrifice’By Lou LumenickSeptember 8, 2014 | 6:58pm It’s sort of amazing that it’s taken so long for Hollywood to get around to dramatizing a fascinatingly bizarre event that riveted the world’s attention in 1972 between the Watergate break-in and the Munich Olympics massacre — the world […]
The Cold War Pawn Sacrifice
TIFF ’14: First Pictures of Liev Schrieber and Tobey Maguire in ‘Pawn Sacrifice’BY: BRAD BREVET TUESDAY, JUL 22, 2014 AT 9:45 AM Seeing Edward Zwick’s Pawn Sacrifice among the films listed for this year’s Toronto Film Festival was a nice surprise as it seems the film has been in the works forever. Set during the […]