USSR vs. Rest of the World Match

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf chess event
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Match_of_the_Century
gptkbp:board1 Boris Spassky vs. Bent Larsen
gptkbp:board10 Alexander Kotov vs. Fridrik Ólafsson
gptkbp:board2 Tigran Petrosian vs. Bobby Fischer
gptkbp:board3 Viktor Korchnoi vs. Lajos Portisch
gptkbp:board4 Efim Geller vs. Svetozar Gligorić
gptkbp:board5 Vassily Smyslov vs. Samuel Reshevsky
gptkbp:board6 Mikhail Botvinnik vs. Wolfgang Uhlmann
gptkbp:board7 Mark Taimanov vs. Miguel Najdorf
gptkbp:board8 Leonid Stein vs. Milan Matulović
gptkbp:board9 David Bronstein vs. Borislav Ivkov
gptkbp:country gptkb:Yugoslavia
gptkbp:endDate 1970-04-05
gptkbp:format team match
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label USSR vs. Rest of the World Match
gptkbp:location gptkb:Belgrade
gptkbp:notableFor Considered one of the most famous team matches in chess history
Match was extremely close, decided on final board
Bobby Fischer played for the Rest of the World team
gptkbp:notablePlayer gptkb:Lajos_Portisch
gptkb:Bobby_Fischer
gptkb:Miguel_Najdorf
gptkb:Samuel_Reshevsky
gptkb:Viktor_Korchnoi
gptkb:Bent_Larsen
gptkb:Boris_Spassky
gptkb:Mikhail_Botvinnik
gptkb:Tigran_Petrosian
gptkb:Vassily_Smyslov
gptkb:Efim_Geller
gptkbp:numberOfFloors 10
gptkbp:organizer gptkb:FIDE
gptkbp:result USSR won 20.5–19.5
gptkbp:significance first major team match between USSR and international team
gptkbp:startDate 1970-03-29
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Larsen_vs._Spassky,_Belgrade_1970
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7