Spassky had never previously lost to his antagonist.

斯帕斯基以前从未败给过他的敌手。

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At Reykjavik, when Mr Spassky was advised between games by 35 Russian grand masters, Mr Fischer had a notebook and his own long, lugubrious, clever head. And he won.

在雷克雅未克，当斯帕斯基先生在对局间歇听取35个俄罗斯特级大师的建议的时候，菲舍尔先生就只有一个笔记本和他的长长的，怪异的，聪明的脑袋，然而他赢了。

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Fischer became an icon in 1972 when he dethroned the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky in a series of games in Reykjavik to claim America's first world chess championship in more than a century.

菲舍尔是一名极具个性的世界著名棋手。早在1972年，菲舍尔在冰岛首都雷克雅未克进行的世界棋王争霸战中击败斯帕斯基成为新的世界棋王。

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After he took the title from Boris Spassky in 1972, he refused to play anybody for 20 years.

ECONOMIST: World chess championship