His 1972 match against American Bobby Fischer is considered one of the most famous duels in the history of the game as well ...

Boris Spassky, the Soviet chess grandmaster who learned to play as an orphan – eventually becoming the informal face of the ...

The Central Nebraska Chess Club, just four years old, plays free games every Saturday at the Kearney Public Library. The ...

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era chess grand master who lost his world champion title in 1972 to ... when he arrived at Iceland’s capital, Reykjavik, to play Fischer in the summer of 1972, he carried ...

When Mr. Spassky, a Russian, played Bobby Fischer, an American, in Iceland at the height of the Cold War, the media attention ...

Former chess world champion Boris Spassky passed away at the age of 88 on Thursday. We revisit his world championship match ...

Paddy Upton worked as D Gukesh's mental conditioning coach for the World Chess Championship in Singapore last year.

Every chess master was once a beginner, according to chess player and author Irving Chernev. And 45 Marshalltown Community ...

World Champion D Gukesh climbed to his career high ranking of No.3 in the FIDE rankings on Saturday, March 1. Gukesh gained ...

He said he learned to play chess at the age of five in an orphanage, having managed to flee Leningrad with his family when it was besieged by the Nazis during World War II. After the war ...

Magnus Carlsen recently admitted he has “no chance” against modern chess engines, even on his phone. Speaking on The Joe ...