Boris Spassky, Soviet era chess champion “The match of the century” was killed in 88 lost to American Bobby Pischer

Boris Spassky, the Soviet era, which lost the name of the American world chess champion Bobby Fischer Legendary in 1972, in the match against the competition of the Cold War, Moscow died on Thursday. Was 88 years old.

His death was approved by the International Chess Federation, the management body of the game. No reason was given.

Spassky was “one of the greatest players” always The group in social media said. He “left an indelible sign in the game.”

The Russian Chess Federation called the death of the “big loss to the country”, and the generations of chess players learned from his matches.

According to the TASS State News Agency, Soviet grandmaster Anatoly Karpov said, “He was always one of my main idols,” he said.

Spassky is best remembered in 1972 in 1972, the best of the confrontation between the East and West. Duel was known as the “match of the century.”

The Soviet chess giant lived a life collapsing between the best players and virtual disappearance of the period.

In 1937, in Leningrad, in St. Petersburg, SPASSKY, 18th in the 18th world champion and the youngest grandmaster in the history of the youngest grandmaster showed the early talent of the youngest grossmairer.

He learned to play chess in a five-year-old child, and managed to escape Leningrad when he was besieged by the Nazis during World War II.

After the war, without fear of self-sacrifice, the aggressive game was noted by peers and was recommended by the state that provides him with a scholarship and coach.

When a strong impression, in Soviet chess, Mikhail Tal, found himself in the shadow of the so-called “Riga Wizard”.

By 1961, SSASSSSi won the USSR championship and made a remarkable return.

Eight years later, he defeated his compatriot to his compatriot to carry the world title.

“I never set the world champion. Everything himself. I was moving forward in the leap and bounds,” Spascy said in 2016.

Yugoslav Grandmaster Svetozar Gligoric said that Spasski’s secret power “He lies in the great ability to adapt to different styles of competitors,” he said Washington post reported.

“Great responsibility”

However, Spassky’nin would have only three years of title.

In 1972, he played a match against Iceland and the American Prodigy Fischer.

Spassky, who preferred the game for years in height and the Soviet Union for years, had to face an eccentric situation of an eccentric eccentric, which openly criticized Soviet chess players.

However, after a convenient beginning for Spasssky, the American has returned to end the unrest strip of the Soviet world champions since 1948.

While the damage was a fist on Moscow, it was a relief to escape “great responsibility” for Spassky.

“You can’t imagine how much I’m relaxed when the Fisher head is away from me. I liberated myself from a heavy burden and breathed free.”

Iconic Cold War Duel has been the topic of numerous books, documentaries and films. Basically, in 2020, the Queen’s Gambit, adapted to the famous Netflix series, inspired Noy to the Queen’s Gamiti.

However, after the defeat, Spassky fell in favor.

Four years later, in 1976, he moved to France after marriage from a French origin. He received French citizenship in 1978.

Until he played an unofficial narration against the fischer in Yugoslavia in 1992, Spassky has not returned to the public.

In recent years of life, the patient was celebrated with a conflict of health and a mysterious family.

After two strokes, in 2012, with the help of a sponsor and returned against the recommendations of his wife and sister.

“I have to start from scratch, but I’m not afraid.”

A few years ago, in 2008 visited the grave of the former opponent Fischer He died that year He was buried in a small cemetery in Iceland.

“Do you think the neighbor is available?” Spassky asked journalists who accompanied him on the visit.

Spassky lives in Moscow and relatives informed his death chess federation, his Executive Director Alexander Tkachev told the RIA Novosti news agency.

Associated Press contributed to this report.