At the height of the Cold War, everything between the United States and the U.S.S.R. was a symbol of the supremacy of one over the other: literature, ice hocky, even (maybe especially) chess. Pawn Sacrifice is the story of American chess master Bobby Fisher’s epic match versus the Russian World champion, Boris Spassky. It’s the […]
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Cold War On Two Fronts Trailer: Pawn Sacrifice!
Bobby Fischer was a chess prodigy who became the youngest grandmaster in the history of the game. Always looking for the best competition – driven to find it, in fact – he publicly and loudly challenged the Soviet Union’s Boris Spassky, the reigning world champion at the height of the Cold War. What most people […]