Photo: Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer after Spassky won the first game of the 1972 World Chess Championship, held in Reykjavík, Iceland. Fischer went on to win the championship. Read The Bobby Fischer Defence by Garry Kasparov in NYRB. When I was a kid the world chess championships were front-page news—they were another front in [...]
Published on February 17, 2011 08:22