brought the US its first world chess title. Fischer, known to be testy and difficult, died in 2008. After his victory of Spassky, he later forfeited the title by refusing to defend it. Former world ...

American Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura, who occupies the No 2 slot in the latest FIDE Classical ratings and is also the ...

Magnus Carlsen may be the best chess player in the world, but the Norwegian has ruled out a return to the classical World ...

became a cultural proxy battle between the US and Soviet Russia. Then World Champion Boris Spassky facing off against American Bobby Fischer at the 19th Chess Olympiad in 1970. Bettmann Archive ...

Staff Sgt. Imann Fletcher Takes Top Army Spot at Armed Forces Chess Championship FORT MEADE, Md. — A U.S. Army staff sergeant has emerged as the ...

“As world champion, he owed his public a world championship ... And put me in the same cell with Bobby Fischer. And give us a chess set.” Boris Vasilyevich Spassky was born in Leningrad ...

MOSCOW — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American ... especially those of us who, like him, didn't fit comfortably into the Soviet machine." ...

Boris Spassky, Soviet Chess Champion Who Lost Famed Cold War-Era Match ... especially those of us who, like him, didn’t fit comfortably into the Soviet machine.” Spassky emigrated to France ...