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Robert James Fischer
United States chess master; world champion from 1972 to 1975 (born in 1943)
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Anatoli Yevgenevich Karpov
Russian chess master who was world champion from 1975 until 1985 when he was defeated by Gary Kasparov (born in 1951)
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Gary Weinstein
Azerbaijani chess master who became world champion in 1985 by defeating Anatoli Karpov (born in 1963)
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Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi
Russian chess master (born in 1931)
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Boris Vasilevich Spassky
Russian chess master who moved to Paris; world champion from 1969 to 1972 (born in 1937)