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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that ...

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 on Thursday in Moscow ...

Paris – Russian chess grandmaster Boris Spassky has died at the age of 88, International Chess Federation (FIDE) General Director Emil Sutovsky said on Thursday. Spassky, who took French nationality ...

TORONTO (Reuters) - There might have been something more nerve-wracking than being an opponent to world chess champion Bobby Fischer, and that was being the mercurial man's minder. "Pawn Sacrifice," a ...

FORMER chess grandmaster Boris Spassky has died aged 88. The Russian became world champion in 1969. Please provide a valid email. Your info will be used in accordance ...

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 ...

Bobby Fischer (right) and Boris Spassky play their last game together on Aug. 31, 1972, in Reykjavik, Iceland. Associated Press file photo MOSCOW — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who ...

Boris Spassky, legendary Russian chess player and the 10th World Chess Champion who rose to international fame in the 1972 “Match of the Century” against American Bobby Fischer, died Thursday in ...