During the Cold War, geopolitics was like checkers with two players and simple rules ... Today, it’s a lot more complicated. The game has become something akin to 3D chess with about 150 players at ...

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 ...

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.

And give us a chess set.” Boris Vasilyevich Spassky was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) on Jan. 30, 1937. During World War II, he lived for several years in an orphanage, where he learned ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Bobby Fischer, right, and Boris Spassky play their last game together in Reykjavik, Iceland, Aug. 31, 1972 ...

Zelensky gets the boot, tariffs for all, Putin rejoices, and then there’s the Panama Canal… It’s enough for anyone to ask: is this chaos, or is this all part of the White House plan to ...

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. He was 88.

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.

For all his great tactical power and his blazing genius over the board, Spassky, in some ways, is doomed by history to be forever linked to the 1972 World Chess Championship match in Reykjavík, one of ...