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

The first game Fischer lost after a monumental blunder; the second game he forfeited when he refused to turn up. How could he gain the initiative? As the authors of this book remind us, Bobby used ...

The CWSP is located in the LSE Department of International History, the home of some of the leading scholars of the Cold War in Europe. The CWSP focuses on the history of the Cold War, which uses ...

Bobby Fischer’s win over Soviet Boris Spassky amid the Cold War was seen as a symbol of American prowess in the intellectual arena. Today, Gukesh’s defeat of Ding heralds the emergence of a ...

Interest spiked when American Bobby Fischer toppled his Soviet opponent in the Cold War-era “Match of the Century,” for instance, and when Russian grand master Garry Kasparov lost to an IBM ...

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, and when ...

A Cold War nuclear missile will remain in service for a total of 94 years thanks to a US$383 million US Navy contract, with Lockheed Martin to modernize the submarine-launched Trident II missile ...

Emmanuel Macron's meeting with Donald Trump focused on potential peacekeeping in Ukraine, stressing that peace should not equate to Ukraine's surrender.