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CoQ_10 (coq_10@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 10:42:05 JST CoQ_10
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- Cliff Secord
@CliffSecord I'm so old, I remember the Spassky-Fischer championship in Iceland.
Set off a wave of chess madness in my high school, guys you would never imagine playing chess. They even put Fischer on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

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  Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 10:42:06 JST Cliff Secord
  
  My wife and I love playing chess (she got me hooked), and we have a chess club of sorts in the neighborhood. Just saw this news:
  
  https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/27/soviet-chess-grandmaster-boris-spassky-dies-at-88-a88194
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    Soviet Chess Grandmaster Boris Spassky Dies at 88 - The Moscow Times
    
    from AFP
    
    Soviet chess grandmaster Boris Spassky, best known for his Cold War-era defeat to American Bobby Fischer, has died at 88, the Russian Chess Federation announced late Thursday.

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