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Spassky's Best Games: A Chess Biography is a New In Chess title on Boris Spassky, the Russian chess genius who became World Champion in 1969.
This biography includes fifty of Spassky’s best games, annotated by former Russian champion Alexey Bezgododov, plus a biographical sketch of a few dozen pages written by Dmitry Aleynikov, Director of the Chess Museum in Moscow. Spassky was born in St. Petersburg in 1937, moved to France in 1976, and returned to Russia in 2010.
On the way to the World Championship, Spassky defeated contemporaries such as Paul Keres, Efim Geller, Mikhail Tal, Bent Larsen, and Viktor Korchnoi. He lost his first match for the ultimate title against Tigran Petrosian, then won the crown in his second attempt in 1969.
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