This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com May 29, 2026 SELFOSS, ...

Born to a Jewish family in Chicago but raised in Brooklyn, New York, Fischer was the only American to ever claim the mantle of world chess champion. Richard Meek / Sports Illustrated Though 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, died Thursday in Moscow. He was 88.

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 ...

More than 400 players, including several young English talents, are competing in Iceland’s premier event More than half a century on, the Bobby Fischer v Boris Spassky series at Reykjavik in 1972 ...

HT chronicled the ”Match of the Century” – played in Reykjavik, Iceland – which became as much a clash of cultures as of personalities: the outspoken and eccentric Fischer versus the measured and ...

Over time the column will aspire to publish the ten most remarkable chess games ever played. Grandmaster experts have tested these games. Every serious chess player should be familiar with these games ...