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 ...

Champion chess player and Soviet dissident Garry Kasparov has a few thoughts about how well democracy in the U.S. is doing. He tells NPR's Scott Simon that it's not America first - it's America alone.

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 ...

the Russian chess genius whom many regard as the greatest player of all time. What’s less well known about him is that for the past decade Kasparov has become a major player in that great game ...

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 ...

"It is possible that the Candidates Tournament may be postponed," Russia’s legendary chess player Karpov said. "As far as I know the organizers are faced with some problems and sponsors ...

D Gukesh reveals the secret to his meteoric rise in chess that saw the 18-year-old overtake the legendary Viswanathan Anand as the top-ranked Indian chess player after 37 years in 2023 and become the ...

A dream come true for the teenager who's now the 18th world chess champion. "Every chess players wants to experience ... youngest chess world champion was Russian grandmaster Garry Kasparov.

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 ...