Karpov improved so quickly under Botvinnik's tutelage that he became the youngest Soviet National Master in history at fifteen in 1966 ; this tied the record established by Boris Spassky in 1952.

Karpov defeated Lev Polugaevsky by the score of + 3 = 5 in the first Candidates ' match, earning the right to face former champion Boris Spassky in the semifinal round.

* 1937 – Boris Spassky, Russian chess player

* 1972 – The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.

Polgár is the only woman to have won a game from a current world number one player, and has defeated nine current or former world champions in either rapid or classical chess: Anatoli Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Boris Spassky, Vasily Smyslov, Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Ruslan Ponomariov, Alexander Khalifman, and Rustam Kasimdzhanov.

In 1993, Polgár defeated former World Champion Boris Spassky ( pictured here in 1984 ) in an exhibition match winning the largest prize money up to that point of her career of $ 110, 000.

Immediately following the Hastings tournament, Polgár played an exhibition match in February against former World Champion, Boris Spassky.

* 1972 – In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion.

* June 17 – After a 23 game match, Boris Spassky defeats Tigran Petrosian to become the World Chess Champion in Moscow.

** Boris Spassky, Russian chess grandmaster

Boris Vasilievich Spassky ( also Spasskij ; ; born January 30, 1937 ) is a Soviet-French chess grandmaster.

Boris Spassky, 1980

* Boris Spassky vs Robert Fischer, Santa Monica 1966, Grunfeld Defence, Exchange Variation ( D87 ), 1 – 0 Fischer seems to equalize in a sharp game, but he makes a small mistake and Spassky finishes nicely.

* Boris Spassky vs Tigran Petrosian, World Championship match, Moscow 1969, game 19, Sicilian Defence, Najdorf Variation ( B94 ), 1 – 0 Aggressive style of play and brilliant sparkles of combinations shows Spassky at his heights.

* Bent Larsen vs Boris Spassky, Belgrade 1970 ( match USSR vs. Rest of the World ), Nimzo – Larsen Attack, Modern Variation ( A01 ), 0 – 1 Another nice short win over a noted grandmaster.

* Boris Spassky vs Robert Fischer, Siegen Olympiad 1970, Grunfeld Defence, Exchange Variation ( D87 ), 1 – 0 Fischer tries the Grunfeld again against Spassky, and the game is remarkably similar to their 1966 encounter.

* Boris Spassky vs Robert Fischer, World Championship match, Reykjavík 1972, game 11, Sicilian Defense, Najdorf, Poisoned Pawn Variation ( B97 ), 1 – 0 Fischer's only loss in his favourite Poisoned Pawn variation.

* Anatoly Karpov vs Boris Spassky, Candidates ' match, Leningrad 1974, game 1, Sicilian Defence, Scheveningen Variation ( B83 ), 0 – 1 Spassky lost the match, but he started strongly with this fine win.

* Interview with Boris Spassky

* Vasily Smyslov vs Boris Spassky, Moscow vs Leningrad team match 1960, Alekhine's Defence ( B05 ), 1 – 0 Spassky tries the unusual Alekhine's Defence and is beaten in fairly short order.

* Bent Larsen vs Boris Spassky, Amsterdam Interzonal 1964, Bird's Opening ( A03 ), 1 – 0 Larsen successfully played unusual openings in this tournament, and here he uses one of them to knock off a top Soviet, on his way to winning the tournament.

On February 12, 2004 during a game vs. the New York Rangers, Roenick was hit in the face by an errant slapshot from Rangers defensemen Boris Mironov.

Players like Senijad Ibričić, Boris Pandža, Edin Džeko, Vedad Ibišević and Sejad Salihović, who played in the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 play-offs vs Czech Republic, came up through the ranks and commenced their senior careers at this point.

Badenov's name is a play on that of the 16th-century Russian Tsar Boris Godunov (" bad enough " vs. " good enough ").

* Boris Spassky vs Lajos Portisch, Mexico Candidates ' match 1980, game 1, Sicilian Defence, Closed Variation ( B25 ), 0-1 Another revenge tilt sees Portisch open the match by turning back one of Spassky's favourite systems.

Although Bent Larsen was initially very successful with this opening, it suffered a setback in the 1970 USSR vs. Rest of the World match in Belgrade, in which Larsen played this opening against reigning World Champion Boris Spassky and lost in 17 moves.

Brodsky invited distinguished painters and pedagogues to teach at the Academy, namely Konstantin Yuon, Pavel Naumov, Boris Ioganson, Semion Abugov, Pavel Shillingovsky, Dmitry Kardovsky, Alexander Osmerkin, Nikolai Radlov, Yevgeny Lansere, Alexander Lubimov, Rudolf Frentz, Nikolai Petrov, Victor Sinaisky, Vasily Shukhaev, Dmitry Kiplik, Nikolai Punin, Vasily Meshkov, Mikhail Bernshtein, Efim Cheptsov, Ivan Bilibin, Matvey Manizer, Piotr Buchkin, Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva, Alexander Karev, Leonid Ovsyannikov, Sergei Priselkov, Ivan Stepashkin, Konstantin Rudakov and others.

Since 1938, there has been a long list of famous winners, including: Max Euwe, Bent Larsen, Tigran Petrosian, Paul Keres, Efim Geller, Lajos Portisch, Boris Spassky, Mikhail Botvinnik, Mikhail Tal, Viktor Korchnoi, Jan Timman, Anatoly Karpov, Vladimir Kramnik, Garry Kasparov, Viswanathan Anand, Veselin Topalov, Levon Aronian, Sergey Karjakin, Magnus Carlsen, and Hikaru Nakamura.

Players such as Vasily Smyslov, David Bronstein, Isaac Boleslavsky, Paul Keres, Alexander Kotov, Tigran Petrosian, Efim Geller, Mark Taimanov, Yuri Averbakh, Boris Spassky, Mikhail Tal, Viktor Korchnoi, and Leonid Stein dominated the landscape with their sharper styles and innovative openings.

Boris Nemtsov was born on 9 October 1959 in Sochi to Efim Davidovich Nemtsov and Dina Yakovlevna Eidman.

Geller was also a coach to World Champions Boris Spassky and Anatoly Karpov.

Short lost to Joel Benjamin by 2. 5 – 1. 5 at London 1983, drew with Eugenio Torre (+ 1 = 4 – 1 ) in Manila 1988, drew with Timman ( 3 – 3 ) in an exhibition match at Hilversum in 1989, defeated Boris Gulko in extra games in the PCA Candidates ' quarter-finals at New York 1994, and lost to Gata Kamsky by ( 5. 5 – 1. 5 ) in the PCA semi-finals at Linares 1995.

* Riga 1965, lost his quarter-final match to eventual Candidates ' winner Boris Spassky by 6 – 4 (+ 2

He also qualified for the Candidates Tournament for the FIDE World Chess Championship 1996, losing to Boris Gelfand in the first round of matches.

Kamsky played in the Candidates Tournament to determine the challenger for the World Chess Championship 2012, where he advanced to the semifinals before losing to Boris Gelfand.

In the semifinals, he faced the 2009 Chess World Cup champion Boris Gelfand in a rematch of their 2007 Candidates tournament meeting won by Gelfand.

Byrne lost his first-round Candidates ' match to former world champion Boris Spassky by 1. 5 – 4. 5 at San Juan, Puerto Rico 1974.

He was Fischer's second for the Candidates matches leading up to the World Chess Championship 1972 against Boris Spassky, though not for the championship match itself, after a disagreement with Fischer.

In the Candidates ' matches, he first advanced to the semifinals after beating Bent Larsen by 6. 5-3. 5 at Rotterdam 1977, then lost to Boris Spassky by 6. 5-8. 5 at Geneva 1977.

Triangulation can occur in endgames other than king and pawn endgames, such as this game in the 1965 Candidates Tournament, in which future World chess champion Boris Spassky defeated former world champion Mikhail Tal and won the right to challenge the current champion Tigran Petrosian.

He did reach the stage of the Candidates matches of 1977-78 but was eliminated in the first round, in a close match versus the former world champion Boris Spassky.