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Bobby Fischer's 1972 world-championship chess match with Boris Spassky in Reykjavik was rightly seen as a Cold War allegory.(The Week)(Obituary)(Brief article)
Bobby Fischer's 1972 world-championship chess match with Boris Spassky in Reykjavik was rightly seen as a Cold War allegory. Spassky, the product of Russian chess culture brought to machine-tooled efficiency by the Soviet Union, faced the unbounded American individualist. After a disastrous start--Fischer lost Game One with a blunder, and forfeited Game Two after complaining that the television cameras distracted him--he roared back to win 121/2 points to 81/2. ...
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