Boris Spassky, fearing death, 'flees' to Russia

Since Thursday we had been searching for the 75-year-old former World Champion who, his wife told us, had disappeared from their house in Meudon near Paris. Now he has turned up in Moscow, with a harrowing story, which he revealed to the Russian newspapers Komsomolskaya Pravda. After a stroke in 2010 he was rehabilitating in France, where he apparently felt trapped. <a href="[Post:view_link]">Interview.</a>

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Boris Spassky, fearing death, 'flees' to Russia