The biggest tipping point for chess was the 1972 World chess championship between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky ... recap videos of each match, by top players like World No.1 Magnus Carlsen ...

Eugene Torre became Asia’s first Grandmaster in 1974, two years after Bobby Fischer’s historic victory in the World championship match against Boris Spassky. The Filipino living legend ...

A god who plays chess? Yes, there is one. Where else, besides Tamil Nadu, the country’s chess capital, can this be? Lord Shiva, the presiding deity at Chaturanga Vallabha Nathar temple in Tiruvarur ...

A dispatch from the pivotal Game 11 in Singapore that helped make Gukesh Dommaraju an 18-year-old chess champion.

D. Gukesh is looking forward to his next event. The Tata Steel tournament at Wijk aan Zee in the Netherlands, starting on ...

Now the country boasts four of the world’s top 20 players ... s Boris Spassky, was widely framed as a contest between the rival superpowers. Geopolitical trends are still reflected in chess ...

The world has a new chess champion. Grandmaster Gukesh Dommaraju ... Bobby Fischer was higher ELO rated than champion Boris Spassky when he won the World Championship title in 1972.

Many of India's grandmasters come from Chennai, including Gukesh Dommaraju, the youngest world chess champion. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Vasily Smyslov, Boris Spassky, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, and Vladimir Kramnik are the others from Russia to become world chess champions. India has two world champions in the form of Anand ...

The world chess championship was evenly poised right ... showdown between the American Bobby Fischer and Soviet great Boris Spassky at the height of the Cold War in 1972. Ties between nuclear ...