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Soviet chess giant Boris Spassky dies

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Soviet chess champion who lost famed Cold War-era game to U.S. has died

MOSCOW (AP) — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow. He was 88.

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Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion and Cold War symbol, dies at 88

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era chess grand master who lost his world champion title in 1972 to American Bobby Fischer in one of the most famous duels in the history of the game as well as a metaphor for the competition for Cold War supremacy,

New York Post on MSN · 1d

Boris Spassky, Russian chess legend and world champion, dies at 88

He defended his World Chess champion title against American Bobby Fischer in the “Match of the Century” in 1972 — which became a cultural proxy battle between the US and Russia during the Cold

Trump’s Ukraine Deal Could Give Russia Everything It Wants

While few of the deal’s details have been reported, any continuation of American support for Ukraine would be a good thing.

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Explosive Claim: Trump Was a KGB Recruit, Says Ex-Soviet Spy

A former Soviet intelligence officer has made a shocking claim that Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB back in 1987 and ...

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Ex-KGB Officer Claims Trump Was Recruited as 'Krasnov' by Soviet Union in 1987

A former KGB officer claims Donald Trump was recruited by Soviet intelligence in 1987 under the codename "Krasnov." He ...

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4 Nations Face-Off is the latest in a long line of memorable international hockey competitions

The 4 Nations Face-Off has already delivered an instant classic international hockey game with the fight-filled preliminary ...

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Donald Trump 'secretly recruited as KGB agent' on trip to build Moscow hotel in 1987

It has been claimed that when Donald Trump travelled to Moscow for the first time back in 1987, as a 40-year-old real estate ...

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Sakharov smuggled Nobel Prize speech to Oslo via embassy ploy, papers reveal 50 years on

On a cold December morning in 1975, Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov met a Norwegian diplomat on a Moscow street to hand over ...

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