Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion who lost famed Cold War-era match to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
MOSCOW — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 ...
Farewell to the best loser in sporting history
Boris Spassky’s chess duel with Bobby Fischer at the height of the Cold War captivated the world. The defeated Spassky was ...
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CHESS CORNER: Spassky remembered for creativity
Former World Chess Champion Boris Spassky passed away last week at the age of 88 years. In the Match of the Century in 1972, ...
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Boris Spassky, endlessly witty and a free soul, was more than just Fischer’s victim or a Soviet Union foot soldier
READ MORE: Boris Spassky, the man who dared George Bush to put him and Bobby ... “After the Candidates tournament in Moscow (in 2016), I spent a few hours with him and got to hear numerous funny ...
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Washington now ‘largely aligns’ with Moscow’s vision, Kremlin says
The Trump administration’s rewrite of decades of U.S. foreign policy on Russia, laid bare in the Oval Office confrontation ...
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Boris Dmitrievich Grigoriev
On view are more than 80 works - 60 paintings, five sculptures, and a body of works on paper - by French, Belgian, Russian, Ukrainian, Austrian, and German artists from the first two decades of the ...
Trump says Russia easier to deal with than Ukraine in push for peace
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he found it easier to deal with Russian leader Vladimir Putin than Ukrainian ...
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Ukraine war latest: Europe must beat Russia in arms race, Poland warns - as Zelenskyy at emergency Ukraine talks
Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders are holding emergency Ukraine talks in Brussels, where the Ukrainian leader has thanked Europe "for staying with us" during a week in which Donald Trump ...
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Politics latest: Sacked minister under investigation for 'actions causing significant damage' to parliament
Andrew Gwynne is under investigation by the Commons standards watchdog for "actions causing significant damage to the reputation of the House as a whole, or of its Members generally". The Commons ...