Boris Spassky, legendary Russian chess player and the 10th World Chess Champion who rose to international fame in the 1972 “Match of the Century” against American Bobby Fischer, died Thursday ...

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.

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) is ...

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.

A Russian chess player has won a major international tournament in Moscow for the fourth time. Yan Nepomnyashchy became the winner of the Aeroflot Open – 2025 anniversary Chess Festival. Thanks to ...

MOSCOW, May 6. /TASS/. Chinese Chess Grandmaster Ding Liren will replace Russia’s suspended player Sergey Karjakin at the 2022 Candidates Tournament this summer, a spokesman for the press office ...

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.

the Chess Federation of Russia said Thursday. The federation called his death a “great loss to the country”, saying generations of chess players had learned from his matches. One of the first to react ...