Farewell to Boris Spassky, the Soviet chess legend.
Famous for his duel with American Bobby Fischer in 1972, at the height of the Cold War, he died at the age of 88, the Russian Chess Federation announced today.
"A great person has passed away, generations of chess players have studied and are studying his games and his work. This is a great loss for the country," said the president of the Russian Chess Federation, Andrei Filatov, quoted by the TASS agency.
(Online Union)