At a time before his country became a chess powerhouse, he defeated four world champions, including Bobby Fischer and another in an unlikely turn of events. By Dylan Loeb McClain When Mr. Spassky, a ...

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 was 88.

Bobby Fischer might have been the greatest chess player who ever lived, but he was a deeply troubled man who descended into paranoia and hatred. ... The Troubled Genius of Bobby Fischer One night in ...

The duo that crafted the bestselling Wittgenstein's Poker returns to chronicle "the most notorious chess duel in history," the 1972 match between world champion Boris Spassky and challenger Bobby ...

Fischer certainly got attention back then, but information was filtered very differently than today. Journalists used to lead the way, rather than slavishly follow the flow of superficial Internet ...

Liz Garbus' documentary tells the compelling and powerful story of the late chess prodigy. By James Greenberg PARK CITY — In his heyday in 1972, when he beat Russian Boris Spassky for the World ...

I can't even sit still long enough to watch golf on TV. I'm the kid who struggled to stay seated long enough to practice piano. I assumed that a movie about a chess player would not enjoyable to me.

Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer, wanted by Washington and detained in Japan since July, may file a lawsuit in the United States on the grounds that the executive order he violated by playing ...

The Japanese government is preparing to deport chess legend Bobby Fischer for staying in this country on an invalid passport, immigration officials said Tuesday. Fischer was detained at the ...

On this week’s edition of Slate’s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis described the perpetual search for the “next Bobby Fischer.” An adapted transcript of the audio recording is below, ...