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Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion and Cold War symbol, dies at 88 By Emma Brown and Brian Murphy The Washington Post, Updated February 27, 2025, 8:03 p.m.

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow. He was 88.

MOSCOW (AP) — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in ...