MalOsco-Soviet-Yug’s World Chess Champion, Boris Spasky, who lost his title against American Bobby Fisher in a 1972 legend, which became a proxy for the Cold War Contest, died on Thursday in Moscow. He was 88 years old.
One-time chess production was announced by the Government Board of Government, International Chess Federation. No reason was given.
“Spasky was one of the greatest players of all time,” the group said on social platform X. “
The height of the Cold War, the television with Fisher became an international sensation of the 1972 match and was known as the “century match.”
When Fisher won the international Chess crown The then -29 -year -old chess talent from Brooklyn, New York, in Iceland, Rakjavic, the US. He got his first world chess title.
Fisher, known as testing and difficult, died in 2008. After Spasky’s victory, he later lost the title by refusing to defend him.
Former World Champion Gary Kasparov wrote on the X that Spasky “did not particularly friendship and guidance to the upcoming Pay Generation, especially those in us, who did not fit comfortably in the Soviet machine.”
Spasky migrated to France in 1976.
On its website, the match with Fisher with a Spasky match is called “Most iconic in the history of the game” with a spasry match.
Yugoslav Grandmaster Swatzer Gligoric said that Spasky’s secret power “puts itself in their great skills in adopting its opponents in different styles,” Washington Post Report.
The Chess Federation speaks the Special “the first real universal player”, which was not an opening expert, but it is exquisite in the position of complex and dynamic middlegame where it was in its element. “
At his famous match, the Soviet Union created an intact rope of the World Chess Championship, which was in length for decades.
After his loss, the spasky went home to a cold reception in the Soviet Union, where it became a national frustration, the post said. He said he was not allowed to leave the country, and his marriage, second, was separated.
“I feel at home on the chessboard,” he was cited in memory of the Rakjavic match published by the World Chess Hall F F F F Fam, “the post said. “Our chess is not the borders of Kingdom.”
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