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Chess 23 Apr 1960, Sat Weekly Examiner (Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England) Newspapers.com
The annual Mar del Plata (South America) tournament has just ended in a tie between two outstanding young players, Bobby Fischer, of the USA, and B. Spassky, of Russia.
Either of these players may be a contender for the World Championship in the future.
Below is a game Spassky played in the 1957 Russian Championship. Although drawn, the game is full of imaginative play. Spassky sacrifices first the exchange, and later a piece to become a Rook down, relying not on any immediate combinative return, but on his centre pawns, which prove in the end to be full value for the sacrifice.
Boris Spassky vs Ratmir Kholmov
USSR Championship (1957), Moscow URS, rd 6, Jan-29
Nimzo-Indian Defense: Leningrad Variation (E30) 1/2-1/2
