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, ...

The televised 1972 match with Bobby Fischer, at the height of the Cold War, was known as the “Match of the Century." ...

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 ...

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

Fifty years ago, the Cold War was transposed to a chessboard as Bobby Fischer of the United States took on defending world ...

Arnaud Frillet, a representative of the French actor Gerard Depardieu, commented on the situation with accumulated debts on ...