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NAME: Boris Vasilyevich Spassky
OCCUPATION: Chess Player
BIRTH DATE: January 30, 1937 (Age: 76)
PLACE OF BIRTH: Leningrad, Russia
ZODIAC SIGN: Aquarius

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Boris Vasilyevich Spassky is a Russian chess master who attained the rank of international grand master in 1955.

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Born January 30, 1937, in Leningrad, Russia, Boris Vasilyevich Spassky is a Russian chess master who attained the rank of international grand master in chess in 1955. After a period of intermittent involvement with the game, he beat Tigran Petrosyan for the world title in 1969. In 1972, Spassky lost it to Bobby Fischer.

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