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

Soviet chess grandmaster Boris Spassky, who was famously defeated at the height of the Cold War, has died at 88, the Russian Chess Federation announced Thursday. “The tenth world champion Boris ...

IBB: In the early 1980s, the Cold War had reached a critical juncture. The arms race between the East and the West was at a ...

The Soviet-era former chess prodigy, who played in “one of the most iconic” games in history against American Bobby Fischer ...

Kyrgyzstan announced Thursday it would exchange territories disputed with Tajikistan since the fall of the Soviet Union, ...

His 1972 match against American Bobby Fischer is considered one of the most famous duels in the history of the game as well ...

Soviet chess legend Boris Spassky, who lost the 1972 "Match of the Century" to American Bobby Fischer in a Cold War-era ...

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

PETER LAZENBY is fascinated by a book of cartoons that shows how newspaper cartoonists were employed to, on the one hand, denigrade and, on the other, to defend the miners’ strike of 1984-85 ...

For years, it was assumed that the fences around the holy tziyunim of the Tzemach Tzedek and Rebbe Maharash in the town of ...