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Thorarinsson: The Match of All Time (paperback) improvers This is no ordinary openingThe Inside Story of the legendary 1972 Fischer Spassky World Chess Championship in Reykjavik When the Icelandic Chess Federation made a bid to host the 1972 world title match between Soviet icon Boris Spassky and American challenger Bobby Fischer, many Icelanders were rightly shaking their heads in disbelief. How could their small island country in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean with a population of less than 300 thousand people stage such a