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

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

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era chess grand master who lost his world champion title in 1972 to American Bobby Fischer in one of ...

Boris Spassky is best remembered for his duel with American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for ...

When Mr. Spassky, a Russian, played Bobby Fischer, an American, in Iceland at the height of the Cold War, the media attention ...

Make no mistake: Putin is a war criminal with blood on his hands, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, first in 2014 and then in ...

The 1972 showdown between Russian chess grandmaster Boris Spassky and American grandmaster Bobby Fischer, which was dubbed ...

Vladimir Putin, Russia’s long-standing dictator, never got over the Soviet Union’s collapse at the end of the Cold War. He ...