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Spassky

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Spassky
Boris . born 1937, Russian chess player; world champion (1969--72)


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On a giant board, Stallings showed the students a move-by-move account of the legendary 1972 championship match between American Bobby Fischer and Russian Boris Spassky.
For the supposed crime of playing chess in defiance of a UN embargo, Fischer faces the prospect of 10 years in prison, a sizeable fine, and forfeiture of $3 million in prize money earned by defeating Spassky for a second time.
4) In one of his interviews in 1993 about the sinking of the Komsomolets nuclear-powered submarine, Academician Igor Spassky remarked that, unlike the nuclear reactor, the greatest hazard were the two torpedoes with nuclear warheads containing plutonium.
 
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