Soviet chess grandmaster Boris Spassky, who was famously defeated in the so-called match of the century at the height of the Cold War, has died aged 88, the Chess Federation of Russia said ...

Garry Lyon says Essendon must use Sam Durham on Will Day. In Sam Durham, Essendon has, almost, the perfect weapon. Athletically predisposed to matching Day around the ground, physically strong ...

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However, he lost in the semifinal of the Candidates Tournament (to determine the challenger to the defending world champion) in 1975 against Anatoly Karpov, the man who ... rousing of energy in ...

But if Garry Kasparov, 61, is expeditious ... but I don’t think it has the same aura of sanctuary as before, when you had Fischer, Karpov, myself, Anand, Magnus… Q. And Spassky, who recently died. A.

Anatoly Karpov displaced Fischer at the ... winning two World Championships and six Chess Olympiads. Garry Kasparov, arguably the greatest to have played the sport, took over from Karpov when he was ...

NATO is over, declared Garry Kasparov, the famous Russian chess player and Kremlin opponent, after yesterday's clash at the White House between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky. Kasparov, who took ...

Everyone from Garry Kasparov to Susan Polgar posted rich tributes to the ... (3) Having a Champions’ dinner with Boris, Anatoly Karpov and Nona Gaprindashvili in Dresden in 2008. We had a lot of fun ...

Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov on Friday took a massive dig at Bobby Fischer while remembering the latter’s encounter with the late Boris Spassky, the news of whose passing surfaced on the ...

Fischer, known to be testy and difficult, died in 2008. Former world champion Garry Kasparov wrote on X that Spassky “was never above befriending and mentoring the next generation, especially ...