Boris

[Eelco de Groot]

Boris Spasski, world champion from 1969 to 1972 passes away at 88 years. https://nos.nl/artikel/2557562-russisch ... -overleden (Dutch)



A chessgame against Jan Hein Donner at the IBM tournament of 1970, Amsterdam

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Spasski



Reykjavik 1972

[towforce]

The game known as "The Match Of The Century" - link: more coverage than any other chess match I can remember.

[Henk]

A few days ago I thought would Spasski still be alive (for might be I would have missed his death announcement).
So now I know.

Saw some interviews on youtube with Boris Spasski some years ago. Also talking about his health.

I also saw a youtube video where he was playing the hippo with black against Karpov. A game from fifty years ago or something. See him smoking behind the chessboard. By the way he lost that game.

[Rebel]

My favorite player. Much of that refers to the simultane game I played against him in my youth, such a sympathetic person. I wanted him to win against Fischer.

[lkaufman]

Near the end of 1989, chess promoter and billionaire movie producer Ted Field hired me to fly to his home in Aspen Colorado to help with a Mephisto computer which he just bought for ten thousand dollars. His limo picked me up at Denver along with Boris Spassky, who was there in connection with the K K match he was sponsoring. After I got the unit working, he asked Boris to play two 30 min games with it, with me as operator. Each won one game, perhaps the first win by a commercial unit from a world champion! I very much enjoyed spending many hours with Boris there. A very nice and interesting guy.

[reflectionofpower]

My favorite player. Much of that refers to the simultane game I played against him in my youth, such a sympathetic person. I wanted him to win against Fischer.

Boris was quite the sportsmen in that match. He could have claimed it outright just through Fischer's actions in the beginning. What really shows his spirit is after he lost Game 6 and everyone was clapping. Boris was standing right up there clapping with them.