For 24 years, the Soviet Union had used the world chess championship as proof of its intellectual superiority over the West — and the American Bobby Fischer's defeat of Soviet champion Boris Spassky in Reykjavik in 1972 ended that argument, in front of the

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This Day in History: Bobby Fischer defeats Borris Spassky as World Chess champion on Sept. 1, 1972
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This Day in History: Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky as World Chess champion on Sept. 1, 1972