Soviet chess grandmaster Boris Spassky, who was famously defeated in the so-called match of the century at the height of the Cold War, has died aged 88, the Chess Federation of Russia said ...

2018 — Pernilla Lindberg makes a 30-foot birdie putt on the eighth extra hole to win the ANA Inspiration for her first ...

1975 — Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend it, title awarded to Russian Anatoly Karpov. 1977 — Jean Ratelle of the Boston Bruins scores his 1,000th point with an ...

April 1975 was a month filled with controversy, technology revolutions and political decisions that have come to shape the ...