Boris Spassky, the Soviet chess grandmaster who learned to play as an orphan – eventually becoming the informal face of the USSR in the politically-infused “match of the century” against American Bobby Fischer – died on Thursday at 88.
Boris Spassky, the Soviet chess grandmaster who learned to play as an orphan – eventually becoming the informal face of the USSR in the politically-infused “match of the century” against American Bobby Fischer – died on Thursday at 88.