When Mr. Spassky, a Russian, played Bobby Fischer, an American, in Iceland at the height of the Cold War, the media attention ...

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that ...

The world champion, dethroned by the American in the middle of the Cold War, died on February 27 in Moscow at the age of 88 ...

Boris Spassky, the Soviet chess grandmaster best known for his historic 1972 match against American Bobby Fischer, has passed ...

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era chess grand master who lost his world champion title in 1972 to American Bobby Fischer in one of ...

He defended his World Chess champion title against American Bobby Fischer in the “Match of the Century” in 1972 — which ...

Boris Spassky, who has died aged 88 was among the finest chess players of the 20th century, but found his reign at the summit ...

Soviet chess legend Boris Spassky, who lost the 1972 "Match of the Century" to American Bobby Fischer in a Cold War-era ...

Forever hyphenated with American Bobby Fischer, the genial Russian GM's most iconic moment came when he stood to applaud ...

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary ...