MOSCOW (AP) — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a ... 29-year-old chess genius from Brooklyn, New York, brought the U.S. its first world chess title. Fischer, known to be testy and difficult ...

Fifty years ago, the Cold War was transposed to a chessboard as Bobby Fischer of the United States took on ... Grown up in the New York suburb of Brooklyn, Fischer became the world’s youngest ever chess grand master at the age of 15 and dropped out ...

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match, has died at the age of 88.

Bobby Fischer.” Fischer was an unlikely chess genius, a brash Brooklyn native known almost as much for his chronic complaining about lighting and spectators and anything else as for his fierce ...

Boris Spassky, the Soviet chess grandmaster best known for his historic 1972 match against American Bobby Fischer, has passed away at 88 in Moscow. His legendary encounter with Fischer was a defining moment of Cold War-era chess,

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, has died in Moscow.

MOSCOW — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby ... genius from Brooklyn, New York, brought the U.S. its first world chess title. Fischer, known ...

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer ... genius from Brooklyn, New York, brought the U.S. its first world chess title. Fischer, known ...