Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time
In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point, two men - the Soviet world chess champion Boris Spassky and his American challenger…
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