R
Rabell Mendez, N., 127
Rahman, Mujibur, 227–28
Rajcsanyi, Zita, 305
random chess, 307
Reek, Jan van, 38
Rein, Yevgeni, 33–34, 60
Reisman, Marty (the Needle), 20
Reshevsky, Samuel, 7, 15, 17, 18, 20, 37, 82, 225
Reykjavik, 1–3, 50, 122, 123, 124, 133, 138, 145, 192, 195, 239, 307
Rice, Tim, 308
Rodionov, B. I., 290
Rogers, William, 143
Rosenwald competition, 7–8
Rossolimo (chess master), 225
Rostropovich, Mstislav, 91
Royal Game, The (Zweig), 74–75
Rubinstein, Akiba, 78
Rusakov, Konstantin, 276
Rusk, Dean, 186
Russell, Bertrand, 188
Russian Mind, The (Hingley), 56–57
Russian nationalism, 40, 55, 58, 60–61
Russian Orthodox Church, 38, 60
S
Sadat, Anwar al-, 279
Saga hotel, 133, 250, 282
Saidy, Anthony, 135, 137
Saidy, Fred, 137
St. Petersburg. See Leningrad
Sakharov, Andrei, 62
Schmid, Lothar, 1, 30, 95, 96, 137, 138, 147, 157, 158, 161, 167–69, 171–75, 178–84, 192, 208–9, 210, 213, 219, 220, 236, 241, 243, 245–47, 266, 281, 282, 307, 311
Schonberg, Harold, 73, 146
Schultz, Don, 20, 23–24, 213, 226, 264
Searching for Bobby Fischer (film), 306
Shakhmatni Listok (chess magazine), 61
Shchelokov, Nikolai, 292
Shcherbacheva, General, 293
Shcherbacheva, Marina, 293, 294
Shelepin, Aleksandr, 102
Sherwin, Jim, 6, 22, 30
Short, Nigel, 308
Sigfusson, Sigfus, 195, 286
Sigurdsson, Halldor E., 138, 282 64 (chess magazine), 36, 95, 100, 103
Skliarov, Yuri, 260–61
Skoff, Frank, 213–14, 223
Slater, James, 148–50, 283
Smith, Ken (Top Hat), 130–31, 236
Smith, Tommie, 11
Smyslov, Vasili, 28, 37, 38, 41, 45, 62, 80, 86, 105, 107, 121, 184, 200, 287
Sneider, Harry, 302
Soltis, Andrew, 119
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 52, 90, 91
Sophocles, 162
Sosonko, Genna, 119
Soviet Union, 5, 7, 17, 33–35, 50–58
chess’s importance in, 8–9, 35–38, 50, 52–58, 89–92
extra-chess intrigue and, 249–57, 261–67
Fischer’s hatred of, 26
ignorance of West, 55
“Ours (Means) Better” policy, 55, 57
press coverage of match, 274
propaganda edifices, 38
Spassky championship loss and, 287–92
travel restrictions, 53–54, 258–59, 267, 293
See also cold war; Communist Party, Soviet; Sports Committee
Soviet Union Since the Fall of
Khrushchev, The(Brown), 50
Soviet Union vs. the Rest of the World (1970), 82–83
Spanier, David, 285
Spasskaia, Larisa (Boris’s second wife), 44, 46, 107–8, 116, 209, 221, 233, 249–51, 286, 287
Spassky, Boris, 38–69, 99, 131, 216
Angola, lack of interest in, 293
anti-Semitism of, 61
background and youth, 33–35, 38–41, 60
Baturinskii, breach with, 114
Bondarevskii, falling out with, 116
career rise, 41–48
character and beliefs of, 58–61, 64–65
chess style of, 73–74
defection rumors about, 267–69
Dostoyevskian affinities of, 59–60, 61
earnings of, 65–66, 107–8
Estonia, support for, 65
extra-chess intrigue and, 249–51, 253–57, 262, 263, 265–67
Fischer similarities with, 32
Fischer viewed by, 30, 295
Geller’s charges of pressures on, 237–40
Icelanders’ view of, 194–95
life outside of chess of, 77
KGB and, 61, 63, 258–62, 267–69
marriages of, 25, 44, 46, 107–8, 116, 293–94
move to France by, 293–94, 295
post-Fischer match loss by, 282–83, 285–95, 300
on possible Fischer random chess match, 307
Russian history, interest in, 61
Russian patriot, 60
Soviet Communist Party and, 61–66, 109–13, 290–93
and Sports Committee postmortem on
defeat, 287
stress management by, 80–81
Taimanov’s defeat by Fischer and, 92
training plan of, 110
university education of, 43, 60–61
world championship, 48–50, 63–64, 66, 68–69, 84, 98, 100–101, 107, 117, 124, 285
See also Fischer-Spassky competition
Spassky, Ekaterina Petrovna (Boris’s mother), 38, 39
Spassky, Georgi (Boris’s brother), 34, 39
Spassky, Iraida (Boris’s sister), 39
Spassky, Tania (Boris’s daughter), 44
Spassky, Vasili (Boris’s son), 46, 108, 294
Spassky, Vasili Vladimirovich (Boris’s father), 38, 39
Speelman, Jonathan, 167
Spitz, Mark, 232
Sports Committee, USSR, 37–38, 52–53, 62–63, 90, 99–102, 106, 107–14, 155–56, 202, 253–57, 261, 265, 267, 273, 287–91, 293, 294
Stalin, Joseph, 33, 36, 41, 51, 52, 55, 59
State Committee for Physical Training and Sport. See Sports Committee
State Department, U.S., 3, 12, 16, 145, 252
Staunton, Howard, 201
Stein, Leonid, 45, 62, 200
Stein, Richard, 162, 171, 173, 224
Steiner, George, 71, 77, 133–34
Steinitz, Wilhelm, 78
Suslov, Mikhail, 276, 301
Szabo, Laszlo, 41
T
Taimanov, Igor, 87
Taimanov, Mark, 29, 38, 40, 62, 74, 80, 83, 96, 104–5, 131, 205, 253, 287, 310
Fischer match with, 86–93
Tal, Mikhail, 22, 25, 30, 38, 43, 45, 46, 53, 62, 80, 88, 105, 121, 184, 200, 204, 290, 310
Targ, Joan Fischer, 4, 5, 8, 221, 306
Tarrasch, Siegbert, 35
TASS (news agency), 129, 137, 273–74
Thorarinsson, Gudmundur, 124, 127, 128, 138–42, 144, 145, 147, 151–52, 154, 157–58, 161, 163, 164, 170, 171, 180, 183, 197. 201, 237, 281–83, 309
Thorarinsson, Johann, 124
Thordarson, Ulvar, 209–10
Thorsteinsdottir, Anna, 283–84
Tikhomirova, Vera, 118, 121
Tolush, Aleksandr, 40, 41, 43–44
Toner, Bob, 153–54, 227
Torre, Carlos, 78
Treasury Department, U.S., 304
Tremblay, Theodore, 142, 143, 145–46, 153, 154, 160, 251–52, 267–69
Tsarapkin, Semion, 84
Tsvigun, Semion, 261
Tupikin, A. P., 290
Turover, Isaac, 147, 178
U
Uhlmann, Wolfgang, 86, 87
Ulvaeus, Björn, 308
Unzicker, Wolfgang, 31
U.S. Chess Championship, 8, 10, 15–16, 17, 82
U.S. Chess Federation, 10, 84, 104, 127, 128, 212, 305, 308
U.S. Junior Chess Championship, 7
USSR Chess Federation, 64, 66, 100, 120, 127, 128. 147, 299
USSR Council of Ministers Committee for Physical Training and Sport. See Sports Committee
V
Vartanian, Professor, 256, 262
Vasil’iev, Dmitri, 257, 260
Vasiljevic, Jezdimir, 304
Vasiukov, Yevgeni, 9, 15, 88
Vietnam War, 11, 12, 188–89, 230, 232
Viggoson, Hilmar, 221
W
Wade, Bob, 7, 131–32
Walker, Peter, 148
Warner Brothers, 297
Washington Post,136, 159, 160, 172, 176, 270–71, 272