World Chess Championship 1972 World Chess Championship 1972 The World Chess Championship 1972 was a match for the World Chess Championship between challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States and defending champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. The match took place in the Laugardalshöll arena in Reykjavík, Iceland, and has been dubbed the Match of the Century. Fischer became the first American born in the United States to win the world title, and the second American overall (Wilhelm Steinitz, the first world champion, became a naturalized American citizen in 1888). Fischer's win also ended, for a short time, 24 years of Soviet domination
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