Boris Spassky, legendary Russian chess player and the 10th World Chess ... generations of chess players learned and continue to learn from his games and work. A great loss for the country ...

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 MOSCOW (AP ...

Andrey Filatov, president of the Russian Chess Federation, expressed his condolences, calling Spassky "a great personality" whose games and contributions continue to inspire chess players worldwide.

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.

Grandmaster and the tenth world chess champion (1969-1972 ) Boris Spassky of Russia died two Thursdays ago. He was 88. Spassky lost his world championship title in 1972 to America’s Bobby ...

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 Thursday.