Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a ...

Boris Spassky, the 10th World Chess Champion, has died at the age of 88 in Moscow, Russian Chess Federation President Andrey Filatov told TASS. "A great personality has passed away. Generations of ...

Boris Spassky is best remembered for his duel with American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for ...

The 1972 showdown between Russian chess grandmaster Boris Spassky and American grandmaster Bobby Fischer, which was dubbed ...

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

Last January Tyler Cowen, an economist at George Mason University in Virginia, found himself being ushered into an open-air ...

A televised 1972 match between Spassky and Fischer, at the height of the Cold War, became an international sensation and was ...

Fischer Random is built around 960 random positions, shifting the initial position of the pieces from the base rank while the pawns remain intact. The term came from an idea by former great Bobby ...

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Freestyle Chess is nothing but Fischer-Random chess, created by former world champion Bobby Fischer in 1996. It has since come to be known as Chess960, on account of its 960 possible starting ...