The federation called his death a "great loss to the country", saying generations of chess players had learned from his matches. One of the first to react was Soviet grandmaster Anatoly Karpov, who ...

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Soviet chess grandmaster Boris Spassky, who was famously defeated in the so-called match of the century at the height of the Cold War, has died aged 88, the Chess Federation of Russia said Thursday.