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

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

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

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

A televised 1972 match between Spassky and Fischer, at the height of the Cold War, became an international sensation and was ...

In his video on Freestyle Chess’s YouTube channel, Gukesh also revealed his favourite chess player of all time. Gukesh picked the late American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer as the “greatest genius ...

Chess has a history of two of the sport’s greatest icons — Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov — getting into long-standing conflicts with FIDE, the sport's world governing body. Magnus Carlsen, the ...

Chess’s popularity has ebbed and flowed in past decades. Interest spiked when American Bobby Fischer toppled his Soviet opponent in the Cold War-era “Match of the Century,” for instance ...

However, the largest chess prize ever given to an individual was at the 1992 match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky in Yugoslavia. It was worth US$5,000,000 with the winner getting US$3.35 ...