Happy Birthday to 10th world chess champion Boris Spassky
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Hello everyone,
It's time to wish the wonderful 10th world chess champion Boris Spassky a happy birthday for January 30.
Hello everyone,
It's time to wish the wonderful 10th world chess champion Boris Spassky a happy birthday for January 30.
Spassky at the Salonika Olympiad, 1984.
Boris Vasilievich Spassky (also Spasskij; Russian: Бори́с Васи́льевич Спа́сский; born January 30, 1937) is a Soviet-French chess grandmaster. He was the tenth World Chess Champion, holding the title from late 1969 to 1972.
Spassky won the Soviet Chess Championship twice outright (1961, 1973), and twice more lost in playoffs (1956, 1963), after tying for first during the event proper. He was a World Chess Championship candidate on seven occasions (1956, 1965, 1968, 1974, 1977, 1980, and 1985). He was a part of the Fischer-Spassky chess match in 1972, one of the most famous chess matches in history.
We are very happy that he is on his way to good health, good cheer and great chess.
Enjoy the video.
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1 Comments:
At February 3, 2011 at 6:43 AM ,
Anonymous said...
surely one of my favourite champions. My favourite attacking player actually. :)
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