Soviet Chess Champion Boris Spassky Dies at 88
The Soviet-era former chess prodigy, who played in “one of the most iconic” games in history against American Bobby Fischer ...
Boris Spassky, Chess Champion Who Lost ‘Match of the Century,’ Dies at 88
When Mr. Spassky, a Russian, played Bobby Fischer, an American, in Iceland at the height of the Cold War, the media attention ...
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Chess champions reign at Riverside
Fourth grade teacher Kevin Johnson has crowned chess champions for the past 29 years at Riverside Elementary School in Brainerd.
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Chess champion returns to tournament after being fined for wearing jeans
Rather than change out of the jeans he'd been wearing and pay a $200 fine, the Norwegian chess grandmaster refused to play and also withdrew from the World Blitz Championship. “Unfortunately ...
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What was the first computer to win a chess match against a world champion (under regular time constraints)?
IBM's Deep Blue system achieved its first victory over a world chess champion on February 10, 1996, when it won the first game of a six-game match against Garry Kasparov. Despite this initial loss ...
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Praggnanandhaa wins Tata Steel Chess Masters in tie-breakers as Gukesh loses first game as world champion
Gukesh loses his first game as Chess World Champion with another Arjun Erigaisi masterclass Dommaraju Gukesh's poor record against Arjun Erigaisi continued with a loss in Round 13 of the 2025 Tata ...