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What happened in Budapest when Susan Polgar helped Bobby Fischer finalise rules of a radical new format? Endgame was Freestyle Chess
April 22, 2025 9:44 pm
The first woman GM, born and raised in Hungary, was instrumental in getting the maverick genius to live in Budapest for eight years, as Fischer Random was tweaked over several dinners.
Boris Spassky, endlessly witty and a free soul, was more than just Fischer’s victim or a Soviet Union foot soldier
March 04, 2025 11:05 am
There was beauty in his brutal cavalier playing style and the Russian just couldn't be hemmed in by the iron-fisted communist rules of playing and living
Boris Spassky: The man who dared George Bush to put him and Bobby Fischer in same cell, 'and give us a chess set'
March 01, 2025 7:14 am
Forever hyphenated with American Bobby Fischer, the genial Russian GM's most iconic moment came when he stood to applaud rival Fischer after Game 6 of the 1972 match - as it upended all Cold War narratives.
Boris Spassky passes away: Rich tributes and mourning in chess world as 10th world champion, passes away
February 28, 2025 8:10 am
Spassky became the world champion after defeating Tigran Petrosian and then famously lost in the Match of the Century against Bobby Fischer in 1972 at Iceland's Reykjavík.
At World Chess Championship, every detail matters… even colour of yoghurt your opponent’s eating or frequency of his toilet visits
November 23, 2024 6:28 am
World Chess Championship: The colour of yoghurt of a player, the number of toilet visits a rival makes, allegedly bugged chairs, the presence of psychics and hypnotists have all blown up into issues when stakes are highest
World Chess Championship: When Henry Kissinger had to convince Bobby Fischer to play Boris Spassky in Match of Century
November 20, 2024 6:36 pm
The 1972 World Chess Championship match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky — popularised in history as the Match of the Century — almost didn’t happen. But, then Henry Kissinger stepped in with a timely phone call.
Hans Niemann faces new unsubstantiated cheating claims after winning Tournament of Peace with near-flawless run
December 02, 2023 7:14 am
American grandmaster Hans Niemann won seven games and drew two as he went unbeaten at a tournament in which everyone of the contenders was a grandmaster
When Henry Kissinger called chess legend Bobby Fischer to coax him to play Boris Spassky in Match of the Century
December 01, 2023 4:54 pm
The World Championship match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky in 1972 — called the Match of the Century — almost didn’t happen. A timely intervention from Henry Kissinger, who passed away on Thursday, is said to have done the trick
Searching for the next Bobby Fischer, US finds Fabiano Caruana
November 05, 2018 3:01 pm
Fabi Caruana will challenge the world’s best player, Magnus Carlsen of Norway, at the World Chess Championships in London. They will play 12 matches over the course of three weeks beginning Friday.
Magnus Carlsen wins,a new era dawns in chess
November 23, 2013 5:16 am
Anand loses 3.5-6.5,surrenders World crown to 22-yr-old Norwegian.
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