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Spassky, Boris Vasilyevich — ▪ Soviet chess player born January 30, 1937, Leningrad [now St. Petersburg], Russia, U.S.S.R. Soviet chess master and world champion from 1969 to 1972. When Spassky was evacuated from Leningrad during World War II to a children s home … Universalium
Vasilyevich — (as used in expressions) Chicherin Georgy Vasilyevich Frunze Mikhail Vasilyevich Gogol Nikolay Vasilyevich Golitsyn Vasily Vasilyevich Prince Ivan Vasilyevich Kolchak Aleksandr Vasilyevich Lomonosov Mikhail Vasilyevich Lunacharsky Anatoly… … Universalium
Boris — /bawr is, bohr , bor /; Russ. /bu rddyees /, n. a male given name. * * * (as used in expressions) Becker Boris Franz Boris I Chain Sir Ernst Boris Godunov Boris Fyodorovich Karloff Boris Pasternak Boris Leonidovich Spassky Boris Vasilyevich… … Universalium
Spassky — /spas kee/; Russ. /spah skee/, n. Boris (Vasilyevich) /bawr is veuh seel yeuh vich, bohr , bor /; Russ. /bu rddyees vu syee lyi vyich/, born 1937, Russian chess player. * * * … Universalium
Igor Vasilyevich Ivanov — (January 8 1947 – November 17 2005) was a Russian Grandmaster of chess and a concert pianist. Early life He was born in 1947 in Leningrad, USSR, and learned chess at age five. He studied music intensively as a youth, specializing in piano, and… … Wikipedia
Russia — /rush euh/, n. 1. Also called Russian Empire. Russian, Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Cap.: St. Petersburg (1703 1917). 2. See Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 3. See Russian… … Universalium
chess — chess1 /ches/, n. a game played by two persons, each with 16 pieces, on a chessboard. [1150 1200; ME < OF esches, pl. of eschec CHECK1] chess2 /ches/, n., pl. chess, chesses. one of the planks forming the roadway of a floating bridge. [1425 75;… … Universalium
Fischer, Bobby — orig. Robert James Fischer born March 9, 1943, Chicago, Ill., U.S. U.S. chess master. He became a grandmaster at age 15, then a record. In 1972 Fischer defeated Boris Spassky to become the only American to win the world chess championship. An… … Universalium
Petrosyan, Tigran Vartanovich — ▪ Soviet chess player Petrosyan also spelled Petrosian born June 17, 1929, Tbilisi, Georgia, U.S.S.R. died August 13, 1984, Moscow, Russia Soviet Armenian chess master who won the world championship from Mikhail Botvinnik (Botvinnik,… … Universalium
Keres, Paul — ▪ Estonian chess player born January 7, 1916, Narva, Estonia, Russian Empire died June 5, 1975, Helsinki, Finland Estonian chess grandmaster, three times chess champion of the U.S.S.R., three times European champion, and a member of the… … Universalium
