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.

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.

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 ...

Dr. Emanuel Lasker, former chess champion of the world, was today appointed chess editor of the Izvestia, official organ of the Soviet government. Dr. Lasker will also occupy the post of director ...

But then, in the fifth race, with the wind dying, he didn’t finish in the allotted time, which dropped him down to second ...

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 ...

And we all know what kind of a boost the non spectator sport of chess got in 1972 when American genius Bobby Fischer took on Soviet world champion Boris Spassky in what was then called the ‘match of ...