At a time before his country became a chess powerhouse, he defeated four world champions, including Bobby Fischer and another ...

A tactic used in a 1960 victory over countryman David Bronstein — in which Mr. Spassky sacrificed a rook to open an attack on ...

Boris Spassky, the 10th World Chess Champion, has died at the age of 88 in Moscow ... along with Yevgeny Malkin and recently crowned goals king Alexander Ovechkin ...

MOSCOW (AP) — 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 ...