Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer (R) gestures during his match against his archrival Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, ...
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Bobby Fischer took on the Soviet chess empire alone - and ended nearly 30 years of dominance
For decades, Soviet grandmasters dominated international chess, turning the game into another symbol of Soviet prestige ...
MOSCOW (AP) — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in ...
Boris Spassky, the 10th world chess champion, will be in Reno, Nev., Oct. 13-17, giving lectures and playing a simultaneous exhibition at the Western States Open. Recently he wrote a letter to ...
Recently, I came across some interesting revelations about the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky World Championship Chess Match. September 2022 marked 50 years since Fischer was crowned the 11th World Chess ...
REYKJAVIK, ICELAND, Sept. 1 – Bobby Rischer of Brooklyn is world chess champion, the first American to hold that title since it was established 1866. This morning when it was announced that Russian ...
TORONTO (Reuters) - There might have been something more nerve-wracking than being an opponent to world chess champion Bobby Fischer, and that was being the mercurial man's minder. "Pawn Sacrifice," a ...
MOSCOW — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow. He ...
Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow. He was 88.
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