Boris Gelfand vs Pavel Eljanov

The Youngest Candidates

Viswanathan Anand vs Magnus Carlsen: Chess stages biggest game since Fischer vs Spassky, The Independent

Spassky vs Fischer - 1 euro Lycée Leclerc

50 years ago today: Fischer-Spassky, game six

Chess 960 has a 5-tournament streak : Americans win chess960 tournaments and then there's a European in 2nd place. (And Bobby Fischer who created chess960 is American and beat European Boris Spassky

Boris Spassky – biography in 2023

Boris Spassky at the Amsterdam Interzonal, 1964.

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

There's no stopping Magnus Carlsen

Douglas Griffin on X: Reykjavík 1977. The FIDE Candidates' Quarter-final, between Boris Spassky (USSR) & Vlastimil Hort (ČSSR). This match was something of an epic; it lasted from 27th February until 11th