Last month Zita Rajcsanyi asked Fischer to attend a match in Budapest featuring Spassky against Judit Polgar, a 16-year-old Hungarian grandmaster who is the world’s top woman player.

Russian chess grand master Boris Spassky has arrived in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, for a $5 million match that has brought American Bobby Fischer out of seclusion, organizers said Thursday. The two ...

Articles about Bobby Fischer appear in the New York Daily News on September 2, 1972. Spassky phones his resignation to match referee Lothar Schmid at 12:50 p.m. Reykjavik time (8:50 a.m., ...

The new exhibit explores the high-stakes 1972 World Chess Championship between Bobby Fischer and Russia’s Boris Spassky and its many ripples on the game and the world. by Melissa Meinzer August 17, ...

Now a new play reconstructs the historic match. It was pre-internet, pre-mobile phone, pre-online comment, ... Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer had an unofficial rematch in 1992.

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.

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.

Liev Schreiber as Boris Spassky and Tobey Maguire as Bobby Fischer in "Pawn Sacrifice." (Courtesy) During the summer of 1972, the war in Vietnam was raging, Richard Nixon was running for re ...

Boris Spassky, the world chess champion whose career was overshadowed by his loss to Bobby Fischer in the "Match of the Century" in 1972, died Thursday in Moscow. He was 88.

Nikolai Krogius in 1970. A grandmaster himself, he helped Boris Spassky become a world champion and was part of his support team when he lost the title to Bobby Fischer.

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.