Shrewd or boorish? American chess prodigy defeated Soviet champion in '72 world championship match.

The Washington Square Park in New York sees chess hustlers dare passersby to a game under leafy canopies, earning as much as ...

Bobby Fischer, the eccentric genius who became America's only world chess champion by humbling the Soviet Union's best, but who spent his last years as a fugitive from US authorities died on Friday ...

At a time before his country became a chess powerhouse, he defeated four world champions, including Bobby Fischer and another in an unlikely turn of events. By Dylan Loeb McClain When Mr. Spassky, a ...

MOSCOW – Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow. He ...

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow. He was 88.

Born to a Jewish family in Chicago but raised in Brooklyn, New York, Fischer was the only American to ever claim the mantle of world chess champion. Richard Meek / Sports Illustrated Though Fischer ...

Chess grandmaster Boris Spassky, who was the tenth World Chess Champion and held the title from 1969 to 1972, has died at the age of 88. Russian Chess Federation President Andrey Filatov called ...