When Mr. Spassky, a Russian, played Bobby Fischer, an American, in Iceland at the height of the Cold War, the media attention reduced them to pawns in a wider drama.

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era chess grand master who lost his world champion title in 1972 to American Bobby Fischer in one of the most famous duels in the history of the game as well as a metaphor for the competition for Cold War supremacy,

Former chess world champion Boris Spassky passed away at the age of 88 on Thursday. We revisit his world championship match with USA’s Bobby Fischer which was dubbed as the ‘match of the century’ as t