Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that ...

Former chess world champion Boris Spassky passed away at the age of 88 on Thursday. We revisit his world championship match ...

Boris Spassky is best remembered for his duel with American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for ...

The world champion, dethroned by the American in the middle of the Cold War, died on February 27 in Moscow at the age of 88 ...

When Mr. Spassky, a Russian, played Bobby Fischer, an American, in Iceland at the height of the Cold War, the media attention ...

Forever hyphenated with American Bobby Fischer, the genial Russian GM's most iconic moment came when he stood to applaud ...

Boris Spassky, the Soviet chess grandmaster best known for his historic 1972 match against American Bobby Fischer, has passed ...

Spassky chess battle — an iconic Cold War clash in which Fischer stunned the world, ending Soviet dominance and reshaping ...

The death of the one-time chess prodigy was announced by the International Chess Federation. No cause of death was given.

He defended his World Chess champion title against American Bobby Fischer in the “Match of the Century” in 1972 — which ...

Russian chess grandmaster Boris Spassky has died at the age of 88, International chess federation (FIDE) general director ...