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Chess grandmaster Boris Spassky passes away at 88
Soviet chess grandmaster and tenth-world champion Boris Spassky has passed away in Moscow. The Russian Chess Federation announced this. He was 88. He was famously defeated at the height of the cold war. The federation in a statement called it a “great loss for the country”. Spassky is best remembere...