Russian-born chess grandmaster and émigré Gennadi “Genna” Sosonko still remembers where he was 40 years ago today, when he heard that the 1984-85 World Championship match in Moscow between ...
Boris Spassky, the Soviet chess grandmaster best known for his historic 1972 match against American Bobby Fischer, has passed ...
On its website, the chess federation called Spassky's match with Fischer "one of the most iconic" in the history of the ... an unbroken streak of world chess championships that stretched back ...