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

Chess has had many great champions over the years but who are the overall best chess players of all time? Click here to find ...

chess had an ancillary reputation as the recreation of social misfits. Bobby Fischer was a national hero for wresting the world championship away from our cold war rivals, the Russians ...

Boris Spassky, the 10th World Chess Champion, has died at the age of ... In 1972, Spassky failed to defend the title, losing to American Bobby Fischer in Reykjavik. In 1972, the chess grandmaster ...

Denver has hosted major tournaments featuring elite players, including the 1971 quarterfinal World Championship Match between Bobby Fischer and Bent Larsen of Denmark; Denver Chess Club hosts ...

The following conversation between Bobby Fischer and radio host Pablo Mercado was broadcast September 11, 2001 on the Philippine radio station Bombo Radyo. In 1972, Fischer became the first American… ...

One of the best-known variants is Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess (proposed by Bobby Fischer in 1996 ... championed by former world champion Vladimir Kramnik and supported by Carlsen.