"Dropped chess prestige"

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Very long time ago when computers were not able to play yet chess, chess circles were almost at each Soviet school, and in Pioner shop chessboards with portraits of world champions a half from which were Soviet to grand masters were on sale, there was something strange. To chess superstate of the USSR threw down a challenge the representative of other superstate in whom this game was not especially popular — the American Fisher Robert (Robert James Fisher) Robert James Fisher. In the history of its match with the Soviet world champion Boris Spassky except actually chess there is President of the United States and his advisers, KGB, scandals, charges, suspicions...