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.” ...

Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion and Cold War symbol, dies at 88© AFP/Getty Images Mr. Spassky in 1973 during a chess match against England's William Hartston.© AP ...

Kerry Anderson talks with Gokul Sahni, author of “The Main Drivers of Soviet Foreign Policy Towards India, 1955–1991,” published in Volume 8, Issue 1 of the Texas National Security Review. They ...

Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion and Cold War symbol, dies at 88 By Emma Brown and Brian Murphy The Washington Post, Updated February 27, 2025, 8:03 p.m.

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.

A declassified Cold War-era file from the CIA has gone viral over its coverage of a supposed clash between Soviet soldiers and a UFO, passengers of which reportedly turned the troops to stone ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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.

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… ...