The world champion, dethroned by the American in the middle of the Cold War, died on February 27 in Moscow at the age of 88 ...

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

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 ...

There was beauty in his brutal cavalier playing style and the Russian just couldn't be hemmed in by the iron-fisted communist ...

Spassky chess battle — an iconic Cold War clash in which Fischer stunned the world, ending Soviet dominance and reshaping ...

Forever hyphenated with American Bobby Fischer, the genial Russian GM's most iconic moment came when he stood to applaud ...

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.

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

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

FORMER chess grandmaster Boris Spassky has died aged 88. The Russian became world champion in 1969. He still held the title ...