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“The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.”

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Boris Spassky, born on January 30, 1937, is a renowned Russian chess grandmaster. He is highly esteemed in the chess community for his numerous world championship titles in international chess. more

“Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the courtiers of cultured princes. These might take the form of chess games in which the pieces and squares had secret meanings in addition to their usual functions.”

Might Form Literature Games Secret Pieces Wise Function Ancient Chess Mysterious Encounters Squares Legends Usual Scholar Monk Here And There Chess Game Courtiers Ancient Literature

Author:Hermann Hesse

“The world is not likely to tire of an amusement which never repeats itself, of a game which today presents features as novel and charms as fresh as those with which it delighted, in the morning of history, the dwellers on the banks of the Ganges and Indus.”

World Today Games Morning Novel Chess Features Repeats Charm Tire Amusement Delighted Dwellers

Book:The book of the first American chess congress: containing the proceedings of that celebrated assemblage, with the papers read in its sessions, the games played in the grand tournament, and the stratagems entered in the problem tournay ; together with sketches of the history of chess in the old and new worlds

Source: The book of the first American chess congress: containing the proceedings of that celebrated assemblage, with the papers read in its sessions, the games played in the grand tournament, and the stratagems entered in the problem tournay ; together with sketches of the history of chess in the old and new worlds

Quote by Boris Spassky

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