Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era chess grand master who lost his world champion title in 1972 to American Bobby Fischer in one of the most famous duels in the history of the game as well as a metaphor ...

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.

This is a Russian chess set, made in 1922-23, when the Russian Revolution was new. Led by Lenin and Trotsky, the Bolsheviks had lately taken over Russia, ...

Rematch plot. Set in the late 1990s Rematch focuses on the true story of the man vs machine battle between the then world chess champion and an IBM supercomputer dubbed Deep Blue, which was ...

Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion and Cold War symbol, dies at 88. His 1972 match against Bobby Fischer, the American chess star, became known as the “Match of the Century.” ...