As CNN notes, “very, very sound chess” required over 508,000 votes cast and 30,000 forum posts throughout the six-week-long ...

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

Carlsen squared off against 143,000 players from around the world — but the tennis legend was unable to clinch a victory over ...

He "left an indelible mark on the game." The Chess Federation of Russia called ... Spassky is best remembered for his duel with American Bobby Fischer in 1972, which was emblematic of the ...

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Fifty years ago, the Cold War was transposed to a chessboard as Bobby Fischer of the United States ... Spassky also resigns the 13th game, a chess masterclass, according to AFP's correspondent ...

In chess as in life, people use memory as a shortcut for decision-making. That strategy can backfire when the present doesn’t resemblance the past.

In this Gilles Carle feature documentary on the game of chess ... a Russian defector; and American Bobby Fischer. Chess aficionados Camille Coudari and Fernando Arrabal analyze the personalities ...

Even though playing the game well was regarded as a sign of intelligence, chess had an ancillary reputation as the recreation of social misfits. Bobby Fischer was a national hero for wresting the ...

(BBC archive interview with Bobby Fischer) At the time, Fischer declared "chess is war on a board", and at that moment in history it certainly seemed like it. But then it always has. If all games ...