Cold War and Chess: the Fischer-Spassky match
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https://doi.org/10.62120/mch.v1i4.41Keywords:
chess, cold war, match, international context, strainAbstract
Throughout the 20th century, the art of diplomacy expanded to encompass new tools. One of them, "Ludodiplomacy", consists of the the use of sports or games as powerful tools of influence. During the interwar period, fascist movements employed this technique, organizing the World Cup in Italy (1934) and the Olympic Games in Germany (1936). Later, during the Cold War, this type of diplomacy developed in a subtle, organic form. Chess, known as "The Game of the Kings", was a fundamental element of the great powers' foreign policies, reaching its peak in the 1972 match between Bobby Fischer, an American, and Boris Spassky, a Russian player. This article chronicles the important Fischer-Spassky match.References
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