Boris Spassky, the World Chess Champion ... but he maintained his wit and perspective to the end. Spassky said of his final years: "I do not prepare for chess. I am preparing for death!

PARIS, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Russian chess grandmaster Boris Spassky ... early 2000s, Spassky disappeared from Paris in August, 2012 before resurfacing in Moscow in October that year.

Fifty years ago, the Cold War was transposed to a chessboard as Bobby Fischer of the United States took on defending world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, who has died aged 88 ...

Soviet chess grandmaster Boris Spassky ... It was not until 1961 that Spassky made a remarkable comeback by winning the USSR Championship. Eight years later he defeated his compatriot Tigran ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion ... Iceland, the then-29-year-old chess genius from Brooklyn, New York, brought the U.S. its first world chess title.

Boris Spassky, former world chess champion, died in Moscow at 88. He was best known for his 1972 "Match of the Century" loss to Bobby Fischer. The International Chess Federation called Spassky ...

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.

MOSCOW — Boris ... year-old chess genius from Brooklyn, New York, brought the U.S. its first world chess title. Fischer, known to be testy and difficult, died in 2008. After his victory of ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Boris ... then-29-year-old chess genius from Brooklyn, New York, brought the U.S. its first world chess title. Former world champion Garry Kasparov wrote on X that Spassky ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion ... Iceland, the then-29-year-old chess genius from Brooklyn, New York, brought the U.S. its first world chess title.