"For me, Boris Spassky was an entire era for chess. He became most famous ... chess players have studied and are studying his games and his work. This is a great loss for the country," Russian ...

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era chess grand master who lost his world champion title in 1972 to American Bobby Fischer in one of the most famous duels ... Chess Federation of Russia, which did not ...

The death of the one-time chess ... player" who "was not an opening specialist, but he excelled in complex and dynamic middlegame positions where he was in his element." At the time of their ...

India's greatest chess player, Viswanathan Anand, tried the trending 'pick your favourite' game to reveal his favourite World ...

The RCF executive added that the federation is deeply disappointed by the incident involving chess player Umaiganat Osmanova MOSCOW, August 7. /TASS/. The Russian Chess Federation (RCF ...

"Our chess players will try to win world championship next time. It is a never-ending process," the official said. Peskov added that the Russian chess school is one of the main and the most ...

In chess literature there have been many prolific middle-game players ... made headlines and made them famous. They were world champs Emanuel Lasker of Germany, Russia’s Alexander Alekhine ...

MOSCOW — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess ... player” who “was not an opening specialist, but he excelled in complex and dynamic middlegame positions where he was in his element ...