Boris Spassky World Chess Hall of Fame

(1937-Present) World Chess Hall of Fame Inducted 2003 Boris Spassky is most famous for his loss of the World Championship crown to Bobby Fischer at Reykjavik in 1972, in the most famous chess match of all time. Despite this dubious honor, Spassky has been considered one of the world’s best players for decades. World Junior Champion and a world title candidate by age 18, Spassky showed an early, hyper-aggressive brilliance that matured into seamless universality.

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