Eugene Torre became Asia’s first Grandmaster in 1974, two years after Bobby Fischer’s historic victory in the World championship match against Boris Spassky. The Filipino living legend ...

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D. Gukesh reflects on his historic World chess championship win and looks forward to the Tata Steel tournament.

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The 1972 world championship in Reykjavík, Iceland, in which American Bobby Fischer dethroned the Soviet Union’s Boris Spassky, was widely framed as a contest between the rival superpowers.

Of course, there were political dimensions to the Cold War–era 1972 match between the Soviet Union’s Boris Spassky and the US’s Bobby Fischer; in 2008, former world champion Garry Kasparov ...

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“Bobby Fischer and Magnus Carlsen are the others,” he said. “And my favourite World championship match is the one between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky in 1972.” Gukesh wants to focus on all the ...