Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion who lost famed Cold War-era match to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that ...
Boris Spassky, Soviet-era chess champion who lost "match of the century" to American Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
Boris Spassky is best remembered for his duel with American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for ...
Boris Spassky, who lost famed chess match to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
Boris Spassky is best remembered for his duel with American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for ...
Boris Spassky, former World Chess Champion and Bobby Fischer’s famous rival, passes away at 88
Boris Spassky, the Soviet chess grandmaster best known for his historic 1972 match against American Bobby Fischer, has passed ...
Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion who lost Cold War-era match to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
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, has died ...
Stabroek News13d
Prize money for international Chess not overly extravagant
However, the largest chess prize ever given to an individual was at the 1992 match between Bobby ... as a World Championship though it was an unofficial rematch of Fischer-Spassky 1972 encounter.
CNN13d
Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
Russian-born chess grandmaster ... of the century, 23 championship matches were played. Only one was not won by a Soviet or former-Soviet citizen – Bobby Fischer in 1972. Under the likes of ...
The Financial Times22d
Chess grandmaster Hans Niemann: ‘I’m a soldier at war’
He relishes, for example, having seen an opponent’s hand tremble over the board, just as Bobby ... chess machine to win the world championship in 1972. He models himself closely on Fischer ...
National Herald23d
Magnus Carlsen: Is chess ace heading the Fischer, Kasparov way?
Chess has a history of two of the sport’s greatest icons — Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov — getting into long-standing conflicts with FIDE, the sport's world governing body. Magnus Carlsen, the ...