“Yes, this is quite remarkable,” says Gunnar Björnsson, executive director of the Icelandic Chess Federation, in an interview with mbl.is, referring to the fact that scoresheets from the so-called “Match of the Century” in chess, played by Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky in Laugardalur in the summer of 1972, recently sold for around 20 million Icelandic krónur at an auction held by Sotheby’s.Historic Fischer–Spassky score sheets sell for ISK 20 million
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April 22, 2026
“Yes, this is quite remarkable,” says Gunnar Björnsson, executive director of the Icelandic Chess Federation, in an interview with mbl.is, referring to the fact that scoresheets from the so-called “Match of the Century” in chess, played by Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky in Laugardalur in the summer of 1972, recently sold for around 20 million Icelandic krónur at an auction held by Sotheby’s.
