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Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion who lost Cold War-era match to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88

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Boris Spassky was a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match.

The televised 1972 match with Fischer , at the height of the Cold War , became an international sensation and became known as the “Match of the Century” The one -time chess prodigy emigrated to France in 1976 .

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