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World Chess Championship 1966
 
Defending champion
Challenger
 
Tigran Petrosian
Tigran Petrosian
Boris Spassky
Boris Spassky
  Soviet Union Tigran Petrosian Soviet Union Boris Spassky
 
12½Scores11½
  Born 17 June 1929
36 years old
Born 30 January 1937
29 years old
  Winner of the 1963 World Chess Championship Winner of the 1965 Candidates Tournament
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A Soviet stamp dedicated to the World Chess Championship 1966

A World Chess Championship was played between Tigran Petrosian and Boris Spassky in Moscow from April 9 to June 9, 1966. Petrosian won.

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