SPASSKY, BORIS VASILYEVICH


Meaning of SPASSKY, BORIS VASILYEVICH in English

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born Jan. 30, 1937, Leningrad, Russia, U.S.S.R.

Russian chess master.

Spassky attained the rank of international grand master in chess in 1955. After a period of intermittent involvement with the game, he beat Tigran Petrosyan for the world title in 1969. In 1972 Spassky lost it to Bobby Fischer .

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