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 ...

Owing to a combination of bad timing, bad faith and bad luck, such all-time greats as Poland’s Akiba Rubinstein and Estonia’s Paul Keres never got the shot at a world title match that their ...

Boris Spassky, the world chess champion whose career was overshadowed by his loss to Bobby Fischer in the “Match of the Century” in 1972, died Thursday in Moscow. He was 88. His death was ...

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.

He became most famous, of course, for being the man who handed over the title to Bobby Fischer ... in his favour, he let his chances slip away." Spassky had been the oldest living world 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 Credit ...