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Soviet chess champion who lost famed Cold War-era game to U.S. has died

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 Moscow. He was 88.

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Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion who lost famed Cold War-era match to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88

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

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Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champ who lost Cold War’s ‘Match of the Century,’ dies at 88

Soviet chess legend Boris Spassky, who lost the 1972 "Match of the Century" to American Bobby Fischer in a Cold War-era showdown, has died at 88. The match, viewed as a symbolic battle between the U.S.

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'True Gentleman' of Chess Was Half of Cold War Showdown

Boris Spassky, the Soviet chess grandmaster who lost a highly politicized showdown—the "Match of the Century"—with American ...

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Is this most decisive moment for US and Europe since end of Cold War?

But it is the eastern flank of Europe has always shouted the loudest about Russia. History and geography means they have to ...

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‘Cold War’ era USA-Russia chess battle returns, loser must take ‘polygraph' test

American GM Hans Niemann has accepted Russian GM Daniil Dubov’s challenge to prove his innocence in cheating scandal.

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Column: In a stunning comeback, Russia wins the Cold War

In a world where the United States is aligned with Russia and against Europe, Russia wins and we lose, Chicago Tribune ...

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Commentary: In a stunning comeback, Russia wins the Cold War

Donald Trump seems either unaware or unconcerned that Vladimir Putin’s plan is to weaken the United States too.

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Elizabeth Shackelford: In a stunning comeback, Russia wins the Cold War

Vladimir Putin, Russia’s long-standing dictator, never got over the Soviet Union’s collapse at the end of the Cold ... World War I and leave Ukraine a vassal state. Trump called Ukrainian ...

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The Real Reason Trump Berated Zelensky

Vance, and Volodymyr Zelensky—during which Trump finally shattered the American alliance with Ukraine—one was particularly ...

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