MOSCOW (AP) — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary ...

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era chess grand master who lost his world ... of the game as well as a metaphor for the competition for Cold War supremacy, died Feb. 27 in Moscow. He was 88.

MOSCOW (AP) — 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 on Thursday ...

The televised 1972 match with Fischer, at the height of the Cold War, became an international sensation and was known as the “Match of the Century.” When Fischer won the international chess ...

The televised 1972 match with Fischer, at the height of the Cold War, became an international sensation and became known as the “Match of the Century.” When Fischer won the international chess ...