The world champion, dethroned by the American in the middle of the Cold War, died on February 27 in Moscow at the age of 88 after a life worthy of the movies ...

Getty Images “A great personality has passed ... He famously defended his title against American Bobby Fischer in the “Match of the Century” in 1972 — a match which, played at the height ...

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Spassky on Bobby Fischer: “When you play Bobby ... Peter V’landys and Andrew Abdo at Allegiant Stadium.Credit: NRL Photos AFL commentator and my friend, Brian Taylor, on the critics: “I don’t give a ...

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Boris Spassky is best remembered for his duel with American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries.

The history of chess is riddled with missed opportunities. Owing to a combination of bad timing, bad faith and bad luck, such all-time greats as Poland’s Akiba Rubinstein and Estonia’s Paul ...

When Mr. Spassky, a Russian, played Bobby Fischer, an American, in Iceland at the height of the Cold War, the media attention reduced them to pawns in a wider drama. By Dylan Loeb McClain Boris ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in ...

Woman National Master Milagros Emperado is a pioneering force of women in Philippine chess. She now focuses on teaching the ...