Levy Rozman
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4,036 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2022
last heard 24 Jun
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And he...
Really, he rose to prominence in the 60s because he was one man from America taking on the Soviet mafia of chess.
So this is like Cold War derivative?
Yeah, right around the same era.
There were several American grandmasters, but he was by far the best.
Okay.
And, you know, they wanted Soviet world champions.
Like you had to break into that space.
They sort of ran it.
He did break into it and dominated.
So Magnus right now is 30 points higher than the next person by rating.
Bobby was 100.
Yeah, up to that point.
And he understood commercial viability.
He refused to play the world championship for $5,000.
So his world championship in 1972, I think the prize fund was a quarter million, which was 50 times higher than it had ever been.
Yeah, and he...
It was in Iceland.
He was playing Spassky.
It was in Reykjavik.
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