Bill Lombardy

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Soviet Georgian chess player Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian playing American Bobby Fischer in in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1971. Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images
Chess, the church and the Cold War: The life of Fr Bill Lombardy

For the most seismic showdown in chess history, the Soviet authorities assembled an extensive support network of 35 grandmasters to travel to Iceland.(...)