Boris Spassky, ‘lost the match of the century’ Chess champion ’88 years old died

Boris Spassky, World Chess Champion who shades with a career loss Bobby Fischer In 1972, Moscow died on Thursday in Moscow. Was 88 years old.

His death was declared the International Chess Federation, the management body of the game that did not want a reason. Mr Spassky had a big shot in 2010, leaving his life in a wheelchair.

President of the Federation Arkady Dvorkovich said in a statement: “He was not one of the greatest players of the Soviet era and the world. The chumata contributions will never be forgotten.”

Mr Spassky had remarkable achievements as a player, but the policy of the match Mr. FischerAt the height of the Cold War and the media focused and turned both in a wider drama.

Mr. Spassky was not happy with all the attention. In 2023 Interview In the World Chess Hall in St. Louis, son Boris Jr., said: “The role played in the 1972 match, because it did not even remember it.”

This was 20 years later, two people rejected, although both players passed better than their heads, because it was interested in the world, this was a measure of the resonance of the match.

When playing the first match, in Reykjavik, Iceland, Mr. Fischer, with a handsome personality, was something in the west. It is widely described as a single armed gun machine that bravely accepted the power of the Soviet chess machine, representing the Representative Soviet Empire with Mr Spassky.

The reality could not have been further than the truth. Mr. Fischer, 29-year-olds of spoiled, was often disobedient and difficult. Mr Spassky was a very demand for the matches of Urbane, Mr. Fischer, 35 years old and Urbane.

The match did not happen almost. On July 2, it was necessary to start, but Mr. Fischer was still in New York, he demanded more money for both players. An English propagandist, James Slater, $ 125,000, added to $ 250,000 (about $ 1.9 million), and Mr. Fischer came on July 4.

The match is the best, each of which counts as a point with each victory, each of which is half-point and every loss is zero as zero. The first player would win the winner of 12.5 points.

The game broke Mr. Fischer on July 11, and lost. After that, the game refused to play the game in the game 2. When they were not, Mr. Fischer made the game happy.

The match was in doubt and the height of the crisis, the Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger appealed to the individual to play Mr. Fischer. A compromise was processed and the match was transferred to a small, closed game area.

Mr. Fischer won 3, the first victory against Mr Spassky, and the match continued to evaporate by winning the match by 12.5 to 8.5.

Mr Spassky’s athlete has moved to the main hall in the full hall in the full hall in the 6th match of the match. When Mr. Fischer won the game, Mr. Spassky, who first leads the first time in the match, welcomed and welcomed his and his victory.

After the loss of the match, Mr. Spassky took a cold party in connection with the return of the Soviet Union. In 1973 he was withdrawn to win the Soviet championship and reached the semifinals of the qualifying matches for the World Cup in 1974, and the future world champion Anatoly Karpov lost.

The work was not the same yet. It was forbidden to travel abroad for two years, the life of life and financial support and perks of a professional chess player in the Soviet Union. But he found a way out.

In 1975, a secretary of the French embassy in Moscow, who was the third wife, met with Marina Stcherbatcheff. They moved to France and became a French citizen in 1978.

In a strange episode in 2012, Mr. Spassky, France was flinched, about a month later in Russia where he claims He stood in a hospital in France and was only separated from friends. He lived in Moscow for the rest of his life.

Mr Spassky’s pressure on chess was great on chess. Years later, I spoke about the match 1972: “I was happy to lose the championship. My years were the worst years of my life as a champion.”

Boris Vasiliyevich Spassky was born on January 30, 1937 in Leningrad (later in St. Petersburg). He was the second child of Russian parents; His parents were divorced later and his father left the family.

He raised extremely poor and was 5 years old and was placed in a temporary orphanage to escape the war during Leningrad. According to his son, he learned to play chess.

In 1947, the palace of pioneers developed and developed the talents of postsalizing children and developed the talent and immediately noticed the talent and began to join the palace of the pioneers. As long as he was 11, he received a scholarship for chess, which is a primary source of income.

He won the World Youth Championship in 1955 and became third in the Soviet Championship, which became a young grandmaster, who was the youngest youngest in history. This note was arrested in three years after Mr. Fischer became a grandmease on 15.

In 1951-1961, Mr. Spassky, a well-known master of the attack, trained with Alexander Kazimirovich coached and a number of successes. However, he suffered with his results and passed to Igor Zakharovich Bondarevsky, which is a more strategic approach. Mr Spasski’s game began to improve, and he began to get into the world.

As a player, in the early 1960s, Mr. Spassky, in the 190s ’70s’, won by playing the position in any way. As the opportunities present themselves, in 1960 as in his shine speech against David Bronstein, a game used for the chess scene in 1963, “With love from Russia.” In addition, he could in the game in the world championship in the world championship against Tigran Petrology in 1966, he can be patiently, in patience and humiliation.

Mr Spassky lost in the match against Mr. Petrosia, but in 1969 he deserved to play again for the world name, and this time beat him. After the loss of Mr Karpova in 1974, Mr. Spassky was deprived of three other world championships, but was dismantled every time.

In the mid-1980s, the top 10 stayed as the results, but the results began to slip and often withdrawed quickly. He said many observers became lazy.

By 1992, Mr. Spassky lived on the edges of the world of chess. Then the owner of a bank in Belgrade, where Mr. Fisher lived, offered $ 5 million for a return match with Mr. Fischer. The situation was to be played in Montenegro in Montenegro, which had sanctions of sanctions of the United Nations sanctions for a cruel war of the match against Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The match violated sanctions, but Mr. Spassky agreed to play with enthusiasm. “He forgets me,” said Mr. Fischer. “It’s fighting me. It is a miracle and I am grateful.”

The match was in a world scale and continued 30 games, but the result was not different from 20 years: Mr. Fischer, 10 in 10 matches, no draw was noted.

The matches differ in two ways: the quality of the game has decreased sharply and the tension between the two players went. Mr. Spassky and Mr. Fischer, for so many years of research center, old friends, laughs and before and after games.

In addition to his son, Mr. Spassky’s survivors include three grandchildren. Three marriage ended in divorce.

Mr Spassky’s warm feelings for Mr. Fisher were genuine in 2004, as Mr. Fischer was a reliable passport in Japan, as threatened with violations of sanctions on Yugoslavia.

Mr. Spassky sent a letter to President George W. Bush, Mr. Spassky, before Mr. Fischer was released and sent to Iceland.

“Bobby and myself did the same crime,” he said. “Put me sanctioned against me. Put me out. Put me on the same camera with Bobby Fischer. And give us a chess set.”