Magnus Carlsen rules out classical World Chess Championship return, shifting focus to new era
Magnus Carlsen may be the best chess player in the world, but the Norwegian has ruled out a return to the classical World ...
Hikaru Nakamura drops a major statement on his future: 'Lately I haven’t been enjoying chess very much'
American Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura, who occupies the No 2 slot in the latest FIDE Classical ratings and is also the ...
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Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion who lost famed Cold War-era match to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American ... New York, brought the US its first world chess title. Fischer, known to be testy and difficult, died in 2008.
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Boris Spassky, Russian chess legend and world champion, dies at 88
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 ...
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Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion and Cold War symbol, dies at 88
“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 ...
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Parents push for chess to be included as a sport in NYC public schools
NYC parents are pushing to level the playing field — between chess kids and student athletes. The Citywide Council on High Schools on Wednesday called on the Public School Athletic League to ...
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Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion who lost to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
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." ...
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Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion who lost famed Cold War-era match to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
Reigning chess world champion Boris Spassky, left, of Russia, and international grandmaster Bobby Fischer of the United States, are seen during a game at the XIX World Chess Olympiad in Siegen ...
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Boris Spassky, Soviet Chess Champion Who Lost Famed Cold War-Era Match to Bobby Fischer, Dies at 88
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 ...