Robert J. Fischer, 29, uncrowned king of chess, meets Boris Spassky, 35, world champion - in the chess match of the century Fischer, the American boy wonder, U.S. champion at 14, grandmaster at 15, challenges twenty-five years of Russian supremacy. Spassky, the grandmaster from Leningrad, fights to defend the honor of a nation offour million chess fanatics. Introvert vs. extrovert. West vs. East. The stakes standing at $150,000.Svetozar Gligoric was there. The Yugoslav grandmaster - who has played both contestants and beaten Fischer more than once - watched this battle of intellect and will. Here he gives a penetrating, blow by blow account of this unique contest.