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SPASSKYS BEST GAMES - ALEXEY BEZGODOV DMITRY OL...

The Russian Boris Spassky was the perfect gentleman. He was a chess genius who became World
Champion in 1969. But he was also gracious in defeat after he lost his title to the American
Bobby Fischer in 1972 in the Match of the Century. This biography includes fifty of Spasskys
best games  annotated by former Russian champion Alexey Bezgodov  and a biographical sketch of
a few dozen pages  written by Dmitry Aleynikov  the Director of the Chess Museum in Moscow.
Spassky was born in St. Petersburg in 1937  he moved to France in 1976 and returned to Russia
in 2010. On his road to the World Championship  he defeated all his contemporaries convincingly
in matches  including Paul Keres  Efim Geller  Mikhail Tal  Bent Larsen and Viktor Korchnoi. He
lost his first match for the ultimate title against Tigran Petrosian but won in his second
attempt in 1969. With his all-round style  fighting spirit and psychological insights  he could
beat anybody anytime and  for example  won at least two games versus six other World Champions:
Smyslov  Tal  Petrosian  Fischer  Karpov and Kasparov.

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