Tell us about your journey with chess. When did you take it up, and why? I first started playing chess with my dad when I was a kid. He never let me win and he’d thrash me for, I think ...

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Spassky faced a must-win situation in his match-up with the eccentric 29-year-old, who openly criticised Soviet chess players. But after a comfortable start for Spassky, the American roared back ...

Boris Spassky, the Soviet chess grandmaster best known for his historic defeat in the 'Match of the Century' at the height of ...

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.