At a time before his country became a chess powerhouse, he defeated four world champions, including Bobby Fischer and another ...

Indian chess legend Viswanathan Anand believes the country has already become a ‘chess superpower,’ drawing comparisons with the dominance of the Soviet Union in its prime. Speaking about India’s ...

the Soviet chess titan, who trained champions Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov. “In Botvinnik’s time, his analysis itself was unique knowledge,” Anand said, adding that technology had ...

His contributions to chess will never be forgotten ... Following his loss to Fischer, Spassky bounced back to win the Soviet Championship in 1973. He was defeated in the Candidates matches ...

Soviet chess world champion Boris Spassky has died at age 88. It was announced by the Russian Chess Federation that regretted the event as a “great loss for Russia”. Spassky held the title of ...

World Chess Champion D Gukesh, left ... We are not dominant like the Soviet Union used to be, but if you take for instance the age of our top players with me as an exception, well I think the ...

“Chess Fundamentals”, among other chess books by Capablanca, is considered his masterpiece. The great Soviet world champion Mikhail Botvinnik lauded it. Emanuel Lasker, world ...

Far from staying away from the game, a five-month chess championship took place between Soviet explorers in Antarctica in ...

Former Utah congresswoman Mia Love, who died after battling brain cancer, didn’t emphasize her race during her campaigns, but ...

Chess players are also vulnerable ... with ideal conditions for breaking world records is definitely atypical and is restricted to Soviet skaters of championship calibre. Athletic equipment, even in ...