At just 18, world chess champion Gukesh Dommaraju scored his 1st classical win over Magnus Carlsen at Norway Chess, ending ...

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

May saw the death of a retired U.S. Supreme Court justice who came the high court as a Republican but became a favorite among ...

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 ...

In the winter of 1977, in Reykjavik, Iceland, Vlastimil Hort, a Czech grandmaster ranked No. 6 in the world, was facing off against Boris Spassky, the Russian former world chess champion who had ...

Soviet chess grandmaster Boris Spassky, who was famously defeated in the so-called match of the century at the height of the Cold War, has died aged 88, the Chess Federation of Russia said Thursday.

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 on Thursday in Moscow.

Reigning World Champion D Gukesh sufferes a heavy loss to China's Wei Yi and has slipped to the Joint 5th spot in the ...

India's chess grandmaster D. Gukesh defeated world no. 1 Magnus Carlsen at the currently ongoing Norway Chess Tournament.

“Even during that time in prison, I found myself again,” Boris Becker. “I had no other choice. When you lose everything—your freedom, your family, your money, your house—the only thing ...

Well, if so, I’m starting to believe that such a fight can only come from one man. You guessed it, Boris Johnson. I know what they’ll say. I can already hear them. He was kicked out in disgrace.