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Nov 30, 2023 | brownpoliticalreview.org | Ariella Reynolds |Bryce Vist |Alice Cheng

Fifty-five decibels. That is as loud as the room got when American chess wunderkind Bobby Fischer took on the Soviet chess machine Boris Spassky on July 11, 1972 in Reykjavik, Iceland. Officials began monitoring the hall’s sound levels when Fischer threatened to walk out of the “match of the century” if they did not remove all cameras—with a match this important, there was no room for error.