He could have advanced toward a title when his opponent, Boris Spassky, took ill. Instead, he displayed one of the game’s ...

Though he never won the title, he beat Spassky once during their quarterfinal match in Iceland and won games against Vasily Smyslov and Anatoly Karpov. One of the matches that Hort was most proud ...

Aleksander Lukin was a member of the Soviet KGB who was raised by General Vasily Karpov, who turned Bucky Barnes into the Winter Soldier. Once Karpov died, Lukin inherited his projects ...

SINGAPORE, April 29, 2025 /CNW/ -- GetBlock, a leading RPC node provider and Web3 infrastructure platform, has officially appointed Vasily Rudomanov, former Chief Product Officer, as its new Chief ...

This game is considered the finest played by Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov. Each of the two produced some scintillating games, but there is no greater rivalry in chess history than theirs.

That was the experience of my friend as we watched ex-Canuck Vasily Podkolzin set up the tying goal then score the go-ahead goal in less than five minutes during game two between the Edmonton ...

Soviet chess grandmaster Boris Spassky, who was famously defeated in the so-called match of the century at the height of the Cold War, has died aged 88, the Chess Federation of Russia said ...

Former Flyers forward Andrei Kuzmenko, who was in Philadelphia for a cup of coffee before the NHL trade deadline, and Edmonton Oilers forward Vasily Podkolzin were two such examples Vorobyov gave ...

EDMONTON --The Dallas Stars will try to tie the Western Conference Final against the Edmonton Oilers in Game 4 at Rogers Place on Tuesday (8 p.m. ET; CBC, TVAS, SN, ESPN, ESPN+). After winning 6-3 ...

In generations that followed, the original last name was retained as the family name, while the name of a person's father served as a patronymic: e.g. Vasily Ivanovich Petrov is Vasily ...