Playing against the chief minister was 17-year-old Mehak Maqbool, who first learnt the rules watching her cousins play when she was around six years old. Seven years later, at age 13, she formally ...

Now in its second decade, the Cook County Jail chess program is thriving, competing internationally and above all — it’s ...

Former FIFA President Sepp Blatter and France soccer great Michel Platini were both cleared of corruption charges by a Swiss ...

Portuguese basketball once more remained obscure… The years went by, and the country was already eight away from its last ...

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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 ...

Boris Spassky’s contributions to chess are commemorated through his remarkable games, including his rejuvenation of the Breyer defence and mastery of various strategies. Despite shifting from ...

Mumbai: Boris Spassky, the 10th World Chess ... Fischer’s victory ended 24 years of Soviet chess dominance, yet Spassky greeted defeat with unexpected relief. “I breathed freely,” he later ...

(MENAFN) Boris Spassky, the 10th world chess champion, has died at the age of 88, the Russian Chess Federation confirmed on Thursday. Spassky, renowned for his historic Cold War-era "Match of the ...

Boris Spassky, the legend of Soviet ... player by the International Chess Federation (FIDE), Spassky held the title for three consecutive years until 1972, when he faced and lost to Bobby Fischer ...

Russian chess grandmaster Boris Spassky has died at the age of 88, International chess federation (FIDE) general director Emil Sutovsky told Reuters on Thursday. Spassky had been the oldest living ...

MOSCOW, Feb 28 (Bernama-TASS) -- Boris ... Spassky won the World Championship title in 1969. He defeated Tigran Petrosian in a match in Moscow. In 1972, Spassky failed to defend the title, losing to ...