biography
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Spassky, Boris Vasilyevich
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1937– )
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| biography:
| Chess player, and world champion (1969–72), born in Leningrad (now St Petersburg), NW Russia. He learned to play chess in a children's home when he was evacuated during World War 2. He became international master in 1953, and junior world champion in 1955. He gained the world championship against Tigran Petrosian in 1969, and lost it to Bobby Fischer in Reykjavík (1972). In 1992 they held a re-match in the former Yugoslavia, playing part in Montenegro and part in Serbia; Fischer defeated Spassky in both sections. |
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