Ravens: Spassky vs Fischer review " game of chess is a cold war thriller
Hampstead theatre, LondonBoris Spassky and Bobby Fischer's 1972 match is a proxy war in this intriguing but overcomplicated chess drama There has already been a musical, Chess, inspired by the contest between a Soviet master and an American challenger. Now comes a play by Tom Morton-Smith that dramatises the real-life battle to be world chess champion that took place in Reykjavik in 1972 between Boris Spassky and Bob…