For decades, Soviet grandmasters dominated international chess, turning the game into another symbol of Soviet prestige ...

At a time before his country became a chess powerhouse, he defeated four world champions, including Bobby Fischer and another in an unlikely turn of events. By Dylan Loeb McClain When Mr. Spassky, a ...

NAGOYA, Japan, March 24 -- Bobby Fischer, the chess legend who feared deportation to face charges in the United States, was freed Thursday by Japanese authorities after eight months in prison, the ...

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.

Boris Spassky, the Soviet chess grandmaster who lost a highly politicized showdown—the "Match of the Century"—with American champion Bobby Fischer at the peak of the Cold War, has died. The ...

Bobby Fischer, 64, an eccentric genius many considered the greatest chess player in the history of the game and who remains the only American of the modern era to win a world championship, died Jan.

Born to a Jewish family in Chicago but raised in Brooklyn, New York, Fischer was the only American to ever claim the mantle of world chess champion. Richard Meek / Sports Illustrated Though Fischer ...

In the cosmopolitan cant of chess players, it is legend that masters of the game are all meshuga—Yiddish for a little batty. But when they talk of Brooklyn’s Bobby Fischer, the newly crowned U.S.

Chess legend Bobby Fischer, wanted by US authorities and facing deportation from Japan, is seeking offers of political asylum from a third country, according to a Website attributed to a ...

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.