The biggest tipping point for chess was the 1972 World chess championship between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky. It was the match that actually put chess in focus on a global level for the first ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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.

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 ...

Commentators sometimes view chess through a geopolitical prism. The 1972 world championship in Reykjavík, Iceland, in which American Bobby Fischer dethroned the Soviet Union’s Boris Spassky ...

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 ...

World Chess Championship match between D Gukesh and Ding Liren will be billed as the new irresistible force versus immovable object spectacle. Ding – the immovable object – was stubbord in his defence ...

Picture: Chess.com The win marks an incredible rise ... showdown between the American Bobby Fischer and Soviet great Boris Spassky at the height of the Cold War in 1972. Ties between nuclear ...