Some MAGA supporters suggest that Mr. Trump is playing 3-D chess that we simply don’t understand. If he is successful, it’s more likely akin to the old saying: “Even a blind squirrel can ...

World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen has ignited a firestorm in the chess world, openly challenging the leadership of FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich and exposing private communications that have fuelled ...

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era chess ... war of attrition,” grand master Jon Speelman wrote in Britain’s Guardian newspaper. Fischer again emerged victorious, 10 wins to five. He pocketed $3. ...

It would become a critical moment in the cold war. For years chess had been seen by both the Soviet Union and the US as a proxy for superpower military competition. Unlike US-Chinese “ping-pong ...

MOSCOW (AP) — 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 ...

The televised 1972 match with Fischer, at the height of the Cold War, became an international sensation and was known as the “Match of the Century.” When Fischer won the international chess ...

He pocketed $3.35 million in prize ... During World War II, he lived for several years in an orphanage, where he learned the rules of chess before he learned to read and write.