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Boris Spassky’s Best Games 2 1969-2009: World Champion this book completes a glowing tribute to the brilliant chess career and life story of Boris Spassky, by biographer extraordinaire

Tibor Karolyi. We continue the story where Volume 1 left off, with Spassky poised to claim the title of World Champion in 1969. Even after his famous defeat at the hands of

Bobby Fischer in Reykjavik 1972, Boris Spassky remained among the strongest players in the world, and his masterpieces continued to delight chess lovers for decades to come.

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International Master Tibor Karolyi is a renowned author and trainer from Hungary. His biographical works for Quality Chess have received glowing praise from readers and reviewers.

1969-2009: World Champion

Welcome to the second volume dedicated to Boris Spassky’s life and chess career. Having ended Boris Spassky’s Best Games 1 at the end of 1968, we will rejoin Spassky’s story in the

run-up to the second World Championship match in which our protagonist challenged Tigran Petrosian. Just like three years earlier, their match was closely contested,

but this time Spassky was able to dethrone the great Armenian. Three years later, Spassky would face Bobby Fischer in Reykjavik, in what would become the most famous chess

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match of all time. I gave a detailed account of that match in Fischer – Spassky 1972, so this book will feature heavily shortened coverage of the match, focusing on Spassky’s perspective.

Despite his historic loss to Fischer in 1972, Spassky remained an elite player for the next decade or so. The famously strong Soviet Championship had one of the most formidable line-ups

in its rich history of 1973, and Spassky won the tournament a full point clear of his nearest rivals. However, he was defeated by a streaking Karpov at the semi-final stage of the next round

of Candidates matches.

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