MOSCOW — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer ... Credit: AP At the time of their famous match, the Soviet Union had compiled an unbroken ...

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era chess grand master who lost his world champion title in 1972 to American Bobby ... Federation of Russia, which did not cite a cause. The “Match of the Century ...

Soviet chess grandmaster Boris Spassky, who was famously defeated in the so-called match of the century at the height of the Cold War, has died aged 88, the Chess Federation of Russia said Thursday ..

PARIS : Russian ... the 10th World Chess Champion, holding the title from 1969-1972, when he lost it to American Bobby Fischer in Reykjavik in a contest later dubbed as the "Match of the Century".