Douglas Griffin on X: Boris Spassky, FIDE Candidates Tournament, Amsterdam 1956. (Source: #chess / X

Magnus Carlsen, 22, is First Western-Born World Chess Champion Since Bobby Fischer - Tablet Magazine

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Chess tournament, chess game collection, Boris Spassky

Bobby Fischer at Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam for discussions with FIDE chairman Max Euwe (right) about the two-camp to the world championship with Boris Spassky Date: 31 January 1972 Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

chess24.com on X: Happy 86th Birthday to the 10th World Champion Boris Spassky! / X

Bobby Fischer's True History - The Daily Times Salisbury, Maryland Tuesday, July 04, 1972 Fischer Accepts Deal For More Cash For Chess (Caption: SO FAR STILL CHAMPION. Boris Spassky of Russia, present

Douglas Griffin on X: Leningrad, April 1974. Photographed during their FIDE Candidates' semi-final match (which took place at the Dzerzhinsky House of Culture on Poltavskaya Ulitsa) - grandmasters Anatoly Karpov & Boris

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Half a century after Fischer, chess's icons are now Carlsen and Stockfish