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Spassky played a match with Korchnoi in 2009

Spassky: “I liked that the rook moved in straight lines and ate everything.”

By mishanp on March 23, 2010

Boris Spassky interviews nowadays always make a nice change of pace, though this one is particularly offbeat – given to a local journalist on the way from a provincial Russian train station to a waiting car (he was returning to the area he was evacuated to from Leningrad during WWII).

Posted in Russian | Tagged Korchnoi, learning chess, Spassky | Leave a response

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