The World Championships in chess have a storied history - dating back to 1886, although FIDE's version has existed since 1948 (including a breakaway event from 1993 to 2006).

Russian world chess champion Boris Spassky, center, is followed by a member of the Soviet Delegation to the world chess championships in Reykjavik, Iceland on July 5, 1972, after they walked out ...

The upcoming clash for the 2024 World Chess Championship title being held in Singapore, between D. Gukesh of India and Ding Liren of China, evokes many similarities with the 1972 world title clash ...

Reykjavik caught the world’s attention in 1972. Iceland’s capital was the venue of the World chess championship match between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer. In the height of the cold-war, a ...

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 ...

World Chess Championship final 2024: Schedule, format, ... the classic showdown between the American Bobby Fischer and Soviet great Boris Spassky at the height of the Cold War in 1972.

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.

FILE - Russian world chess champion Boris Spassky, center, is followed by a member of the Soviet Delegation to the world chess championships in Reykjavik, Iceland on July 5, 1972, after they ...

MOSCOW (AP) — 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 ...