In this article we intend to outline a possible sociological point of view wich contemplates some contingencies socio-cultural and political contingencies present in the field driven by the struggle between capitalists and socialists during the Cold War, trying to establish some associations between this phenomenon and the sports field, and more specifically, with the final of the chess world championship involved the Soviet Boris Spassky and the American Robert James Fischer, undertaken in Reykjavik (Iceland) in 1972. In the first section, we suggested and highlighted some points of convergence that can be established between the structure of microsociological "match of the century" and the macrosociological structure of the Cold War based on the theoretical framework of Norbert Elias. Afterwards we these relationships were explored taken into account the model of sociological analysis of the fields of Pierre Bourdieu.
Cold War; "Match of the century"; Chess; Sociology of sport