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Top five male players with longest chess World No. 1 reign
Let's take a look at the top five male chess players who have spent the longest period as World No. 1. A Soviet Union/Russian ...
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Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
One was Brezhnev, (singer Vladimir) Vysotsky, and the third one was Anatoly Karpov. “The privileges that he got, you cannot imagine. He couldn’t compare with anybody in Russia.” Kasparov ...
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Boris Spassky, who lost famed chess match to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
One of the first to react was Soviet grandmaster Anatoly Karpov, who told TASS state news agency: "He was always one of my main idols." Spassky is best remembered for his duel with American Bobby ...
Soviet chess legend Boris Spassky, who lost ‘match of the century’, dies at 88
The Russian grandmaster was famously defeated by American Bobby Fischer in 1972, at the height of the Cold War Soviet chess grandmaster Boris Spassky, who was famously defeated in the so-called match ...
Chess: Oxford vs Cambridge almost level after 152 years
In 1929 and 1930, the Cambridge top board lost his queen very early, once to a knight fork and then to a bishop pin. Matches ...
Oldest living world chess champion Boris Spassky dies at age 88
Russian chess grandmaster Boris Spassky has died at the age of 88, International chess federation (FIDE) general director Emil Sutovsky told Reuters on Thursday.