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Tsarapkin, Semion, 84

Tsvigun, Semion, 261

Tupikin, A. P., 290

Turover, Isaac, 147, 178

U

Uhlmann, Wolfgang, 86, 87

Ulvaeus, Bjorn, 308

Unzicker, Wolfgang, 31

U.S. Chess Championship, 8, 10, 15–16, 17, 82

U.S. Chess Federation, 10, 84, 104, 127, 128, 212, 305, 308

U.S. Junior Chess Championship, 7

USSR Chess Federation, 64, 66, 100, 120, 127, 128. 147, 299

USSR Council of Ministers Committee for Physical Training and Sport. See Sports Committee

V

Vartanian, Professor, 256, 262

Vasil’iev, Dmitri, 257, 260

Vasiljevic, Jezdimir, 304

Vasiukov, Yevgeni, 9, 15, 88

Vietnam War, 11, 12, 188–89, 230, 232

Viggoson, Hilmar, 221

W

Wade, Bob, 7, 131–32

Walker, Peter, 148

Warner Brothers, 297

Washington Post,136, 159, 160, 172, 176, 270–71, 272

Washington Square Park (N.Y.C.), 6

Watergate break-in, 231

Waters, Archie, 221

Weintraub, Jerry, 205

Weiss, Cyrus, 308

Wellington, Duke of, 281

White House Years, The(Kissinger), 276

Wicker, Tom, 230

Wilder, Billy, 281

Woodward, Bob, 231

World Chess Championship, 8, 57

first official champion, 78

Fischer title, 247. 280–85, 287, 295–301

Reyjkavik site choice, 123

Soviet dominance of. 37–38, 57

Spassky title, 48–50, 63–64, 66, 68–69, 84, 98, 100–101, 107, 117, 124, 285

See alsoFischer-Spassky competition

World Cup (chess), 295

World Junior Chess Championship, 42, 133, 259

World Student Team Championship (1960), 133

World War II, 34–35, 37, 54–55

Worldwide Church of God, 15, 301–2

Wright, Esmond, 11

Writers Union, 51, 52, 90

Wyndham, Francis, 272

Y

Yakovlev, Aleksandr, 58, 66, 155, 260–61, 269

Yates, Frederick, 40

Yeremenko, Vitali, 251

Yermakov, Aleksandr, 155, 156, 273–74

Young, Terence, 240

Yudovich, Mikhail, 33

Yugoslav Chess Federation, 127

Yugoslavia, 124–28, 228, 304

Z

Zak, Vladimir, 40–41

Zharikov, Professor, 256–57, 262

Zonal (tournament), 9, 82, 85

Zuckerman, Bernard, 302

Zweig, Stefan, 74–75

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Fischer-Spassky was an international affair. Necessarily, our research had to be equally wide—and likewise now our expressions of gratitude.

There are those without whom our book could not have been written: to them we offer profound thanks. Though he had a long arranged rendezvous with his autobiography, Boris Spassky unfailingly answered our questions. In Paris, he and Marina also gave us a memorable insight into Russian hospitality. In Germany, the chief arbiter Lothar Schmid set aside several days to take us in detail through the match as well as around the beauties of his ancient home city, Bamberg. Gudmundur Thorarinsson, similarly, could not have been more cordial and helpful