Image Mr. Olafsson in 1971 playing against Tigran Petrosian in a tournament in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands.Credit...Rob Bogaerts/Anefo, via National Archives Over his career, Mr. Olafsson ...

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who was defending a title he had won three years earlier by defeating Tigran Petrosian, another grand master from the Soviet Union. After that win in 1969, chess master Leonard Barden wrote ...

Eight years later he defeated his compatriot Tigran Petrosian to take the world title. "I never set myself the goal of becoming world champion. Everything worked out by itself. I was progressing ...

Eight years later he defeated his compatriot Tigran Petrosian to take the world title. "I never set myself the goal of becoming world champion. Everything worked out by itself. I was progressing ...

AFP Eight years later he defeated his compatriot Tigran Petrosian to take the world title. "I never set myself the goal of becoming world champion. Everything worked out by itself. I was ...

Eternal memory," Filatov said. Spassky won the World Championship title in 1969. He defeated Tigran Petrosian in a match in Moscow. In 1972, Spassky failed to defend the title, losing to American ...

Spassky became the world chess champion in 1969, defeating Tigran Petrosian in Moscow. In 1972, he lost the title to American Bobby Fischer in Reykjavik. Spassky won the Soviet championship twice, in ...

“The names of Karpov, the names of (Mikhail) Tal, (Tigran) Petrosian and others were known by everybody, even the people who never played chess.” The dominance enjoyed by Soviet players during ...