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 chess grand master who lost his world champion title in 1972 to American Bobby Fischer in one of ...

chess had an ancillary reputation as the recreation of social misfits. Bobby Fischer was a national hero for wresting the world championship away from our cold war rivals, the Russians ...

“He has unique chess talents,” says Kasparov, who trained Carlsen for a year back in 2009. “I would say that he is a combination of Bobby Fischer and Anatoly Karpov [the Russian world ...

HUNGARIAN International Chess Grandmaster Judit Polgar is scheduled to visit Jamaica during the imminent Easter holidays.

Magnus Carlsen’s nine-game winning streak at the Grenke Chess Freestyle Open 2025 is being compared to the great Bobby ...

Boris Spassky, the 10th World Chess Champion, has died at the age of ... In 1972, Spassky failed to defend the title, losing to American Bobby Fischer in Reykjavik. In 1972, the chess grandmaster ...

Magnus Carlsen, the world number one, soared to a new landmark in chess history yesterday when the 34-year-old won all his ...

A trailblazer for chess in the continent, Torre changed perceptions by proving he could compete against the world’s best in ...

Courtesy of wikimedia commons There’s a new sort of chess. It’s flashy, it’s exciting. It’s called Freestyle Chess, or ...