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Match of the Century: When the Cold War was fought on 64 squares
The 1972 showdown between Russian chess grandmaster Boris Spassky and American grandmaster Bobby Fischer, which was dubbed ...
Boris Spassky, Chess Champion Who Lost ‘Match of the Century,’ Dies at 88
When Mr. Spassky, a Russian, played Bobby Fischer, an American, in Iceland at the height of the Cold War, the media attention ...
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Vaishali Rameshbabu Net Worth, Chess Achievements & Comparison with Tania Sachdev & Koneru Humpy
Discover Vaishali Rameshbabu’s remarkable chess career, achievements, and impressive net worth. Learn how her legacy compares ...
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Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
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 ... it was 2 a.m. and ...
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Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion and Cold War symbol, dies at 88
A turning point came in 1973, when Mr. Spassky won the Soviet chess championship again ... 1937. During World War II, he lived for several years in an orphanage, where he learned the rules ...
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Bored with chess, the world’s top player wants to remake the game
In December, he withdrew from defending a world championship because he was ... an American grand master who also runs a chess YouTube channel with 2.7 million subscribers. He cited examples ...
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Boris Spassky, Soviet-era chess champion who lost "match of the century" to American Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
He said he learned to play chess at the age of five in an orphanage, having managed to flee Leningrad with his family when it was besieged by the Nazis during World War II. After the war ...
Hans Niemann to undergo lie-detecting polygraph test after losing blitz showdown against Russian GM Daniil Dubov
American Grandmaster Hans Niemann had challenged Daniil Dubov to an 18-game blitz match in Moscow after the Aeroflot Open, ...
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‘Cold War’ era USA-Russia chess battle returns, loser must take ‘polygraph' test
American GM Hans Niemann has accepted Russian GM Daniil Dubov’s challenge to prove his innocence in cheating scandal.
Tanaji Bhimaji Gargote Crowned IRG Champion at South Asia’s First Mind Sports Championship’s West Zone Finals
SOG Grandmasters Series’ unique “Phygital” tournament structure in mind sports is growing massively with North and East Zone lined up as the next battleground ...