World Chess Championship 1969 World Chess Championship 1969 The 1969 World Chess Championship was played between Tigran Petrosian and Boris Spassky in Moscow from April 14 to June 17, 1969. Spassky won. The 1967 Interzonal Tournament was played in Sousse, Tunisia in October and November. The first six placegetters qualified for the Candidates, along with Boris Spassky and Mikhail Tal who were seeded into the Candidates matches as finalists of the previous tournament. A major controversy occurred when Bobby Fischer, who was leading the tournament with seven wins and three draws in ten rounds, abandoned the event over a dispute with the organisers. Because
Manhattan Chess Club the club include Arnold Denker, Arthur Feuerstein, Bobby Fischer, I. A. Horowitz, William Lombardy, and Samuel Reshevsky. In 1970 Fischer played in a blitz tournament organised by the club, scoring 21½/22. Former world chess champion José Raúl Capablanca was watching a casual game in the club on 7 March 1942 when he suffered a stroke; he died the next day. The book entitled, "The Bobby Fischer I Knew And Other Stories", by Denker and Larry Parr, contains many stories about the Manhattan Chess Club. Manhattan Chess Club The Manhattan Chess Club in Manhattan was the second-oldest chess club in the