MOSCOW (AP) — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary ...

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a ...

Boris Spassky, the 10th World Chess Champion, has died at the age of 88 in Moscow, Russian Chess Federation President Andrey Filatov told TASS. "A great personality has passed away. Generations of ...

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

The 1972 showdown between Russian chess grandmaster Boris Spassky and American grandmaster Bobby Fischer, which was dubbed ...

Russian chess grandmaster Boris Spassky has died at the age of 88, International chess federation (FIDE) general director Emil Sutovsky told Reuters on Thursday.

Last January Tyler Cowen, an economist at George Mason University in Virginia, found himself being ushered into an open-air ...

World champion D Gukesh exited the Freestyle Grand Slam Chess after his second quarterfinal loss to Fabiano Caruana in Hamburg. Gukesh, needing a win, blundered a pawn early, leading to his ...

Chess is typically traced back some 1,500 years ... having seen an opponent’s hand tremble over the board, just as Bobby Fischer famously relished the moment when he broke his opponent ...