This year marks the 50th anniversary of another epic might-have-been: the first title defense by American champion Bobby Fischer, against Anatoly Karpov ... rival, Garry Kasparov, that are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...