Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to ... Tigran Petrosian to take the world title. "I never set myself the goal of becoming world champion. Everything worked ...

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The couple were married two years later at the Roman Catholic cathedral in Norwich and set up home in the ... She even pursued a small business career selling chess supplies and refreshments ...

Set the sport’s Doomsday Clock for March 1 ... (Our suspicion is the matter will be resolved in mid-to-late 2029. While the other chess pieces are linked directly to the Big Ten’s fate ...

A small army of journalists descended on Reykjavik ... And put me in the same cell with Bobby Fischer. And give us a chess set.” Boris Vasilyevich Spassky was born in Leningrad (now St ...

The championship was suddenly set alight. The image of a chessboard with pieces in play contains a tangle of symbolic suggestions, many of them violent. Freudians read chess as an arena ... off his ...

so there are a lot of small details which we are absolutely not used ... with Arjun Erigaisi and Tata Steel Chess 2025 winner R Praggnanandhaa also set to participate. High energy prices, lack of ...

There are so many small details that you ... team of seconds for the World Chess Championship. But in freestyle, most of that preparation is superfluous. What’s the point of all of those novelties and ...

Put sanctions against me as well. Arrest me. Put me in the same cell with Bobby Fischer. And give us a chess set,” he wrote. Unlike other world champions, losing the title, Spassky admitted, had been ...

Some 50 million TV viewers tuned into the two-month-long tussle in the Icelandic capital Reykjavik, where chess’s enfant terrible Fischer set out to wrest the championship ... s demand that they play ...

Grandmasters R Praggnanandhaa and Aravindh Chithambaram continued to remain in joint lead after drawing their sixth-round games in the Prague Masters Chess tournament here ... the edge over Aravindh ...