Spassky: “I knew the openings badly”

Did Boris Spassky ever play a rematch with Bobby Fischer after he won the World Championship in Reykjavik, Iceland? - Quora

Olimpiu Di Luppi on X: Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer at the start of one of the games in the epic 1972 world championship match in Reykjavík. / X

FIDE - International Chess Federation - Boris Spassky at the age of 12

Douglas Griffin on X: FIDE Candidates Tournament, Amsterdam 1956. The mayor with Boris Spassky; Vasily Smyslov looks on. (Source: #chess / X

Boris Spassky – biography in 2023

Douglas Griffin on X: Leningrad, April 1974. Photographed during their FIDE Candidates' semi-final match (which took place at the Dzerzhinsky House of Culture on Poltavskaya Ulitsa) - grandmasters Anatoly Karpov & Boris

Boris Vassilyevich Spassky Turns 80!

Douglas Griffin on X: Reykjavík 1977. The FIDE Candidates' Quarter-final, between Boris Spassky (USSR) & Vlastimil Hort (ČSSR). This match was something of an epic; it lasted from 27th February until 11th

92nd FIDE General Assembly: results and decisions

Half a century after Fischer, chess's icons are now Carlsen and Stockfish