MOSCOW — 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 Moscow.

I’m a very unconventional chess player. They laugh at me at my club because I won’t read a book. I know there’s all the different openings like the Queen’s Gambit, the London opening but I ...

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