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.

Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion and Cold War symbol, dies at 88. His 1972 match against Bobby Fischer, the American chess star, became known as the “Match of the Century.” ...

Mr. Spassky went home to a cold reception in the Soviet Union, where he had become a national disappointment. He was wealthy by Russian standards, having won $90,000 in prize money at Reykjavik.

Imagine it’s 1956. The first Cold War is raging. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev has told Western ambassadors: “We will bury you!” Out of nowhere, Pravda, the Soviet propaganda outlet ...

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… ...

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 ...

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, has died in Moscow.