When the American Bobby Fischer challenged the Russian Boris Spassky for the World Chess Championship in 1972 the media looked on in fascination. It seemed the Cold War was being played out in ...

Vasily Spassky was a Russian Impressionist & Modern artist who was born in 1873. Vasily Spassky's work has been offered at auction multiple times. The artist died in 1924.

It was fought in Iceland and it was a chess match - one between the American Bobby Fischer and the Russian Boris Spassky. "I'm just going to go in there. I'm not going stay up nights worrying.