April 1975 was a month filled with controversy, technology revolutions and political decisions that have come to shape the ...
India's greatest chess player, Viswanathan Anand, tried the trending 'pick your favourite' game to reveal his favourite World ...
MOSCOW — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary ... an unbroken streak of world chess championships that stretched back ...
The history of chess is riddled with missed opportunities.
“As world champion, he owed his public a world championship match ... And put me in the same cell with Bobby Fischer. And give us a chess set.” Boris Vasilyevich Spassky was born in ...
He was 88. Spassky lost his world championship title in 1972 to America’s Bobby Fischer, in a match styled “Match of the Century.” Arkady Dvorkovich, president of the International Chess ...
is followed by a member of the Soviet Delegation to the world chess championships in Reykjavik, Iceland on July 5, 1972, after they walked out of a meeting representatives of Bobby Fischer ...
MOSCOW (AP) — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary ... unbroken streak of world chess championships that stretched back ...
Spassky is best remembered for his duel with American Bobby Fischer ... the USSR Championship. Eight years later he defeated his compatriot Tigran Petrosian to take the world title.