MOSCOW — 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.

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.

B oris 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 died in Moscow at age 88, according to the Russian Chess Federation. Getty Images “A great personality has passed away; generations of chess players learned and continue to learn ...

Bobby Fischer 1943 - 2008 Bobby Fischer, the iconoclastic genius who was one of the greatest chess players the world has ever seen, died on Jan. 17, 2008 in a hospital in Reykjavík, Iceland.

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, died Thursday in Moscow. He was 88.

MOSCOW — 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.

MOSCOW - Boris Spassky, the Soviet-era chess champion best remembered for his historic 1972 match against Bobby Fischer, has died in Moscow at the age of 88, the International Chess Federation ...