Editing Boris Spassky (section)

===Later tournament career (after 1976)===
[[File:Spassky Boris.jpg|right|thumb|upright=0.95|Spassky in 1989]]
In his later years, Spassky showed a reluctance to devote himself completely to chess. In 1976, he emigrated to France with his third wife; he became a French citizen in 1978, and competed for France in the [[Chess Olympiad]]s. Spassky later lived with his wife in [[Meudon]] near Paris.<ref>{{cite web |first=Frederic |last=Friedel |url=http://en.chessbase.com/post/boris-spaky-fearing-death-flees-to-ruia |title=Boris Spassky, fearing death, 'flees' to Russia |publisher=ChessBase / Chess News |date=August 18, 2012 |access-date=May 15, 2016 |archive-date=April 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404171426/http://en.chessbase.com/post/boris-spaky-fearing-death-flees-to-ruia |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Lev |last=Khariton |url=http://www.kingpinchess.net/2007/11/no-regrets-boris-spassky-at-60/ |title=No Regrets: Boris Spassky at 60 |date=November 27, 2007 |access-date=May 15, 2016 |archive-date=May 20, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160520060458/http://www.kingpinchess.net/2007/11/no-regrets-boris-spassky-at-60/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.chess.com/news/boris-spassky-at-hay-on-wye |title=Boris Spassky at Hay-on-Wye |date=May 26, 2008 |access-date=May 15, 2016 |archive-date=August 18, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818222709/https://www.chess.com/news/boris-spassky-at-hay-on-wye |url-status=live }}</ref>

Spassky did, however, score some notable triumphs in his later years. In his return to tournament play after the loss to Korchnoi, he tied for first at [[Bugojno]] 1978 on 10/15 with [[Anatoly Karpov|Karpov]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.365chess.com/tournaments/Bugojno_1978/24473|title=Bugojno 1978|website=365Chess.com|access-date=October 20, 2013|archive-date=March 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303220135/http://www.365chess.com/tournaments/Bugojno_1978/24473|url-status=live}}</ref> with both players scoring +6−1=8 to finish a point ahead of [[Jan Timman|Timman]]. He was clear first at [[Montilla]]–[[Moriles]] 1978 with 6½/9.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.365chess.com/tournaments/Montilla_1978/24525|title=Montilla 1978|website=365Chess.com|access-date=October 20, 2013|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304054248/http://www.365chess.com/tournaments/Montilla_1978/24525|url-status=live}}</ref> At [[Munich]] 1979, he tied for first place with 8½/13,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.365chess.com/tournaments/FRG-ch_int_1979/24690|title=FRG-ch int 1979|website=365Chess.com|access-date=October 20, 2013|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055422/http://www.365chess.com/tournaments/FRG-ch_int_1979/24690|url-status=live}}</ref> with [[Yuri Balashov]], [[Ulf Andersson|Andersson]] and [[Robert Hübner]].<ref>''Grand Strategy'' Biographic appendix by Boris Spassky</ref> He shared first at [[Baden bei Wien|Baden]] in 1980, on 10½/15 with [[Alexander Beliavsky]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.365chess.com/tournaments/Baden_1980/21703|title=Baden 1980|website=365Chess.com|access-date=October 20, 2013|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304053422/http://www.365chess.com/tournaments/Baden_1980/21703|url-status=live}}</ref> He won his preliminary group at [[Hamburg]] 1982 with 5½/6, but lost the final playoff match to Anatoly Karpov in extra games.<ref>''Learn From Your Defeats'', by Anatoly Karpov, [[Batsford]] 1985)</ref> His best result during this period was clear first at [[Linares chess tournament|Linares]] 1983 with 6½/10,<ref>{{cite web |title = Linares 1983 |url = http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1012201 |publisher = chessgames.com |access-date = December 11, 2016 |archive-date = December 20, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161220152239/http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1012201 |url-status = live }}</ref> ahead of Karpov and [[Ulf Andersson]], who shared second. At London Lloyds' Bank Open 1984, he tied for first with [[John Nunn]] and [[Murray Chandler]], on 7/9. He won at [[Reykjavík]] 1985. At [[Brussels]] 1985, he placed second with 10½/13 behind Korchnoi. At [[Reggio Emilia chess tournament|Reggio Emilia]] 1986, he tied for 2nd–5th places with 6/11 behind [[Zoltán Ribli]]. He swept [[Fernand Gobet]] 4–0 in a match at [[Fribourg]] 1987.<ref>{{cite web |title = Chess games between Boris Spassky and Fernand Gobet in 1987 (no page title) |url = http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?yearcomp=exactly&year=1987&pid=21136&pid2=15756 |publisher = chessgames.com |access-date = December 11, 2016 |archive-date = December 20, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161220155135/http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?yearcomp=exactly&year=1987&pid=21136&pid2=15756 |url-status = live }}</ref> He finished equal first at the Plaza tournament in the New Zealand International Festival of the Arts at Wellington in 1988, with Chandler and [[Eduard Gufeld]].<ref>{{cite web |title = Plaza (1998) |url = http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=79319 |publisher = chessgames.com |access-date = December 11, 2016 |archive-date = January 24, 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170124151119/http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=79319 |url-status = live }}</ref> Spassky's [[Elo rating system|Elo rating]] was in the world top ten continually throughout the early 1980s<ref>{{cite web |title = FIDE Rating List :: January 1982 |url = http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo198201e.html |publisher = OlimpBase (original data from FIDE) |access-date = December 9, 2016 |archive-date = November 9, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161109194126/http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo198201e.html |url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title = FIDE Rating List :: July 1982 |url = http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo198207e.html |publisher = OlimpBase (original data from FIDE) |access-date = December 9, 2016 |archive-date = February 10, 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170210050557/http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo198207e.html |url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title = FIDE Rating List :: January 1983 |url = http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo198301e.html |publisher = OlimpBase (original data from FIDE) |access-date = December 9, 2016 |archive-date = February 10, 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170210050602/http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo198301e.html |url-status = live }}</ref> until it dropped out in 1983,<ref>{{cite web |title = FIDE Rating List :: July 1983 |url = http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo198307e.html |publisher = OlimpBase (original data from FIDE) |access-date = December 9, 2016 |archive-date = February 10, 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170210050607/http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo198307e.html |url-status = live }}</ref> and intermittently throughout the mid 1980s<ref>{{cite web |title = FIDE Rating List :: January 1986 |url = http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo198601e.html |publisher = OlimpBase (original data from FIDE) |access-date = December 9, 2016 |archive-date = January 4, 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170104051034/http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo198601e.html |url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title = FIDE Rating List :: July 1986 |url = http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo198607e.html |publisher = OlimpBase (original data from FIDE) |access-date = December 9, 2016 |archive-date = December 31, 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191231144011/http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo198607e.html |url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title = FIDE Rating List :: January 1987 |url = http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo198701e.html |publisher = OlimpBase (original data from FIDE) |access-date = December 9, 2016 |archive-date = January 4, 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170104051131/http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo198701e.html |url-status = live }}</ref> until it dropped out for the final time in 1987.<ref>{{cite web |title = FIDE Rating List :: July 1987 |url = http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo198707e.html |publisher = OlimpBase (original data from FIDE) |access-date = December 9, 2016 |archive-date = January 4, 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170104045629/http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo198707e.html |url-status = live }}</ref>

However, Spassky's performances in the World Cup events of 1988 and 1989 showed that he could by this stage finish no higher than the middle of the pack against elite fields. He participated in three of the six events of the World Cup. At [[Belfort]], he scored 8/15 for a joint 4th–7th place, as [[Garry Kasparov]] won.<ref>{{cite web |title = Belfort World Cup 1988 |url = http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1015937 |publisher = chessgames.com |access-date = December 14, 2016 |archive-date = December 20, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161220181843/http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1015937 |url-status = live }}</ref> At [[Reykjavík]], he scored 7/17 for a joint 15th–16th place, with Kasparov again winning.<ref>{{cite web |title = Reykjavik World Cup 1988 |url = http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1015916 |publisher = chessgames.com |access-date = December 14, 2016 |archive-date = September 23, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150923232235/http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1015916 |url-status = live }}</ref> Finally, at [[Barcelona]], Spassky scored 7½/16 for a tied 8th–12th place, as Kasparov shared first with [[Ljubomir Ljubojević]].<ref>{{cite web |title = Barcelona World Cup 1989 |url = http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1015954 |publisher = chessgames.com |access-date = December 14, 2016 |archive-date = September 23, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150923232241/http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1015954 |url-status = live }}</ref>

Spassky played in the 1990 [[French Chess Championship|French Championship]] at [[Angers]], placing fourth with 10½/15, as [[Marc Santo-Roman]] won.<ref>{{cite web |title = Angers 1990 – 65ème championnat de France |url = http://heritageechecsfra.free.fr/1990.htm |publisher = Heritage des Echecs Francais |access-date = December 14, 2016 |archive-date = May 2, 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170502125413/http://heritageechecsfra.free.fr/1990.htm |url-status = live }}</ref> At [[Salamanca]] 1991, he placed 2nd with 7½/11 behind winner [[Evgeny Vladimirov]]. Then in the 1991 French Championship at [[Montpellier]], he scored 9½/15 for a tied 4th–5th place, as Santo-Roman won again.<ref>{{cite web |title = Montpellier 1991 – 66ème championnat de France |url = http://heritageechecsfra.free.fr/1991.htm |publisher = Heritage des Echecs Francais |access-date = December 14, 2016 |archive-date = May 2, 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170502125418/http://heritageechecsfra.free.fr/1991.htm |url-status = live }}</ref>

In 1992, Bobby Fischer, after a twenty-year hiatus from chess, re-emerged to arrange a "Revenge Match of the 20th century" against Spassky in [[Montenegro]] and [[Belgrade]]; this was a [[Fischer–Spassky (1992 match)|rematch of the 1972 World Championship]]. At the time, Spassky was rated 106th in the [[Fédération Internationale des Échecs|FIDE]] rankings, and Fischer did not appear on the list at all, owing to his inactivity. Spassky lost the match with a score of +5−10=15, earning US$1.65 million for losing the match.<ref>{{cite news |title = Fischer Beats Spassky and Carves a New Niche for Himself in Chess |url = https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/06/arts/fischer-beats-spassky-and-carves-a-new-niche-for-himself-in-chess.html |date = November 6, 1992 |newspaper = New York Times |access-date = November 1, 2018 |archive-date = January 16, 2018 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180116051847/http://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/06/arts/fischer-beats-spassky-and-carves-a-new-niche-for-himself-in-chess.html |url-status = live }}</ref>

Spassky then played the 16-year-old prodigy [[Judit Polgár]] in a 1993 match in [[Budapest]], losing narrowly by 4½–5½.<ref>[https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=83258 Polgar – Spassky (1993)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210208034732/https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=83258 |date=February 8, 2021 }}, [[Chessgames.com]]</ref>

Spassky continued to play occasional events through much of the 1990s, such as the Veterans vs. Women match in Prague, 1995.<ref>{{cite web |title = chess |url = https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/chess-1593819.html |publisher = The Independent |website = independent.co.uk |date = July 28, 1995 |access-date = August 24, 2017 |archive-date = April 3, 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190403165318/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/chess-1593819.html |url-status = live }}</ref>