acclaimed and loved by chess champions including the famous Bobby Fischer. This Dubrovnik II set has a slightly more modern feel but retains the original styling. However, you'd have to wait until ...

The first woman GM, born and raised in Hungary, was instrumental in getting the maverick genius to live in Budapest for eight ...

Magnus Carlsen’s nine-game winning streak at the Grenke Chess Freestyle Open 2025 is being compared to the great Bobby ...

Magnus Carlsen, the world number one, soared to a new landmark in chess history yesterday when the 34-year-old won all his ...

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary ... to take the world title. "I never set myself the goal of becoming world champion.

Every serious chess player should be familiar with these games, replaying them over and over again. One of the games is International Master Donald Byrne vs Grandmaster Bobby Fischer, at the ...

(BBC archive interview with Bobby Fischer) At the time ... no game so closely compares to a set-piece battle as chess. Two opposing armies line up to march across the board, foot-soldier pawns ...

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 ...