The Professor of Economics sat down with FM to talk about how he met his wife, his forthcoming book, and the most memorable game of chess he’s ever played.

Bobby Fischer has always worked at his chess with deadly intensity— an unkempt kid, his hazel eyes glowering beneath a snarl of mouse-brown hair as he systematically plotted checkmate after ...

His 1972 match against American Bobby Fischer is considered one of the most famous duels in the history of the game as well as a metaphor for the competition for Cold War supremacy.

Boris Spassky (left) and Bobby Fischer play the final game of their epic 1972 chess match in Reykjavik. AP Returning to Moscow, he was given the coldest shoulder of the Cold War for having lost.

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.

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 ...

FILE PHOTO: Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer (R) gestures during his match against his archrival Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, in the Yugoslav resort of Sveti Stefan in this ...

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 ...