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

Magnus Carlsen’s nine-game winning streak at the Grenke Chess Freestyle Open 2025 is being compared to the great Bobby ...

Spassky is best remembered for his duel with American Bobby Fischer in 1972 ... and the youngest grandmaster in history at the time at 18. He said he learned to play chess at the age of five ...

Dubbed as "the match of the century", he lost to America's Bobby Fischer in Reykjavik in 1972. When Fischer claimed the international chess crown in Iceland, the 29-year-old prodigy from Brooklyn ...

In 1992, Fischer – after 20 years away from the chess board – re-emerged to arrange what he called the “Revenge Match of the 20th Century” against Spassky, in Montenegro and Belgrade, for ...

Every serious chess player should be familiar with these games, replaying them over and over again. One of the games is International Master Donald Byrne vs Grandmaster Bobby Fischer, at the ...

HUNGARIAN International Chess Grandmaster Judit Polgar is scheduled to visit Jamaica during the imminent Easter holidays.

Becoming a chess grandmaster will place Poh among the ... moves of grandmasters I admire such as Jose Raul Capablanca, Bobby Fischer and 17-time World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen,” he said ...

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 ...