He tried excelling in both sports up to a point, before focusing on the Beautiful Game; he later guided a young Carlsen in ...

Niaz Murshed talks about an era of 53 years in chess in the 1st part of the 3-part exclusive interview of Bangladesh’s first ...

He could have advanced toward a title when his opponent, Boris Spassky, took ill. Instead, he displayed one of the game’s ...

The Abu Dhabi Federal Court of Appeals' State Security Chamber has unanimously convicted the defendants of the Russian chess grandmaster Boris Spassky has passed away at the age of 88, International ...

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era chess grand master who lost his world champion title in 1972 to American Bobby Fischer in one of the most famous duels in the history of the game as well as a metaphor ...

See, that was when a mad, maverick American by the name of Bobby Fischer played a best-of-24 match in Reykjavík against the Soviet Union’s Boris Spassky for the heavyweight championship of the ...

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

FORMER chess grandmaster Boris Spassky has died aged 88. The Russian became world champion in 1969. He still held the title as he took part in the "match of the century" against American Bobby ...

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

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, died Thursday in Moscow.

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, died Thursday in Moscow.