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   Boris Spassky

   Spassky played five times for the USSR in Student Olympiads, winning eight medals. ... ↑ Grand Strategy Biographic appendix by Boris Spassky
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   Bent Larsen

   At Belgrade 1964, he shared 5th-6th places with 10/17 (Boris Spassky won). ... He always played a very high number of games, almost all of the rounds, and won three board medals, one gold and two bronzes.
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   Nikolai Krogius

   He was selected for the USSR team for Hamburg 1965, the European Team Championships, where he played on board nine, scored 4.5/8 (+2 =5 -1), won the gold medal on his board, and was part of the gold-medal winning team. ... He served as part of Boris Spassky's team for his second world title match against Tigran Petrosian at Moscow 1969, where Spassky won a tight struggle.
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   Julio Kaplan

   In 1969, he tied for 8-9th in San Juan (Boris Spassky won). ... He won the individual gold medal at Örebro 1966, and the team silver medal at Caracas 1976.
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   Tüdeviin Üitümen

   In other international tournaments, he took 15th at Sochi 1964 (Chigorin mem, Nikolai Krogius won); took 15th at Sochi 1965 (Chigorin mem, Wolfgang Unzicker and Boris Spassky won); took 9th at Havana 1967 (4th Armies-ch, Vlastimil Hort won); tied for 11-13th at Tbilisi 1971 (Goglidze mem); and took 9th at Dubna 1973 (Mikhail Tal and Ratmir Kholmov won). ... He won individual gold medal at second board (+11 −1 =5) at Tel Aviv 1964 and silver medal at second board (+12 −3 =3) at Siegen 1970.
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   Anatoly Karpov

   Karpov defeated Lev Polugaevsky by the score of +3 =5 in the first Candidates' match, earning the right to face former champion Boris Spassky in the semi-final round. ... Karpov represented the Soviet Union at six Chess Olympiads, in all of which the USSR won the team gold medal.
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   Paul Keres

   Keres also appeared three times for the Soviet Union in the European Team Championships, winning team and individual gold medals on all three occasions. ... In URS-ch29 at Baku 1961, Keres scored 11/20 for a shared 8–11th place, as Boris Spassky won.
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   Lajos Portisch

   He scored 4.5/7 in the preliminary round to advance to the final, where he scored 5.5/9, to finish fourth; the winner was Boris Spassky. ... He scored 5.5/9 (+2 =7 -0), as Hungary won the team silver medals.
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   Bogdan Śliwa

   In 1959, he tied for 5-7th in Riga (Boris Spassky won). ... He won the individual silver medal at Helsinki 1952.
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    Tigran Petrosian

    He won eight team gold medals, and four board gold medals. ... | Preceded by Mikhail Botvinnik | World Chess Champion 1963–1969 | Succeeded by Boris Spassky |

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• Lajos Portisch,
• Bogdan Śliwa,
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