PARIS, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Russian chess grandmaster Boris Spassky has ... Lauren Betts scored 14 points to lead six UCLA players in double figures as the top-seeded Bruins cruised to an 84-46 ...

Boris Spassky, legendary Russian chess player and the 10th World Chess Champion who rose to international fame in the 1972 “Match of the Century” against American Bobby Fischer, died Thursday ...

Having made a strong impression, he found himself in the shadow of another rising figure in Soviet chess, Mikhail Tal ... after marrying a Frenchwoman of Russian origin. He obtained French ...

Russian Chess Federation President Andrey Filatov called Spassky’s death “a great loss for the country,” telling the news agency TASS, “A great figure has passed away; generations of chess players ...

FORMER chess grandmaster Boris Spassky has died aged 88. The Russian became world champion in 1969. He still held the title as he took part in the "match of the century" against American Bobby ...

Garry Kasparov, prominent Russian opposition figure, a chess grandmaster, former world champion and now chairman of the Renew Democracy Initiative, which… ...

The RCF executive added that the federation is deeply disappointed by the incident involving chess player Umaiganat Osmanova MOSCOW, August 7. /TASS/. The Russian Chess Federation (RCF ...

NEW YORK, December 29. /TASS/. Russian chess grandmaster Yekaterina Lagno has come third at the FIDE World Rapid Championship 2024 in New York. Lagno scored eight points in 11 rounds. India’s ...

Soviet chess grandmaster Boris Spassky, who was famously defeated at the height of the Cold War, has died at 88, the Russian Chess Federation announced Thursday. "The tenth world champion Boris ...

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