Tag
#Soviet Union
5 entries across 1 section of the encyclopedia.
Players
5- Player Boris Spassky
The tenth world champion, whose 1972 Reykjavík match with Bobby Fischer brought chess into global politics — and out of it again.
- Player Mikhail Botvinnik
The father of the Soviet chess school — world champion in three non-consecutive reigns, and the mentor of Kasparov, Karpov, and Kramnik.
- Player Mikhail Tal
The Magician from Riga — the eighth world champion, whose unsound sacrifices and breakneck calculation gave attacking chess its modern grammar.
- Player Tigran Petrosian
The ninth world chess champion — the Armenian master of prophylaxis, whose positions opponents found suffocating in ways they could not name.
- Player Vasily Smyslov
The seventh world champion — a positional virtuoso whose harmony of pieces was the model the next two generations studied.