The farewell to the chess player Spassky will take place in the Transfiguration Church on March 4.

Farewell to the 10th world chess champion Boris Spassky will be held at the Transfiguration Church in Moscow on March 4. This was announced on March 1 by the Russian Chess Federation in the Telegram channel.

"The farewell ceremony for the 10th world chess champion Boris Vasilyevich Spassky will take place on Tuesday, March 4, at the Transfiguration Church, which is part of the complex of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior," the statement said.

It is specified that the start of the farewell ceremony will take place at 12:00 Moscow time.

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Boris Spassky died in Moscow at the age of 88 on February 27. In 1969, Spassky beat Soviet chess player Tigran Petrosyan and became the tenth world champion, but in 1972 he lost the chess crown, losing in Reykjavik to American Robert Fischer.