Spassky, born in the Soviet Union’s Leningrad — now St. Petersburg, became chess World Champion in 1969, becoming the face of the daunting Russian chess machine. He famously defended his title ...

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 ...

TASS/. Russian two-time chess champion Vladislav Artemyev prefers playing fast chess to classic ones. Artemyev will participate in the Chess Cup of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF), where he holds ...

Ding Liren’s Chinese compatriot Wei Yi had told The Indian Express that Ding had played in a basketball game with other chess ...

The longest game at a World Chess Championship was in 2021 between Carlsen ... that lasted five months and 48 games, Karpov told a Russian magazine he had lost 10kg (22lb) in weight.

A Russian drone attack on the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro late on March 28 killed four people and sparked a large fire in a hotel and restaurant complex as well as multiple private homes ...

Chess-Carlsen rules out world championship return ... Sportscategory· February 28, 2025 Chess-Russian grandmaster Spassky dies aged 88 Russian chess grandmaster Boris Spassky has died at the ...

India's greatest chess player, Viswanathan Anand, tried the trending 'pick your favourite' game to reveal his favourite World ...

TASS/ Russian chess player Yan Nepomnyashchy and Norwegian Magnus Carlsen have shared the title at the World Blitz Chess Championship in New York. In the women's tournament Yekaterina Lagno won ...