The Cold War on MSN
Bobby Fischer took on the Soviet chess empire alone - and ended nearly 30 years of dominance
For decades, Soviet grandmasters dominated international chess, turning the game into another symbol of Soviet prestige ...
Bobby Fischer, the reclusive chess genius who became a Cold War hero by dethroning the Soviet world champion in 1972 and later renounced his American citizenship, has died. He was 64. By The ...
US chess champion Bobby Fischer and the two "K"s -- Garry Kasparov and Anatoli Karpov -- have co-written the modern history of the game, with a chapter devoted to East-West confrontation. In the 1970s ...
In a photograph taken by Harry Benson for Life magazine, Bobby Fischer torturously considers his next move—hands gripping his head and eyes fastened to the board—as his 1972 World Chess Championship ...
At the mention of the game of chess, many people will immediately think of great players such as Garry Kasparov or current Netflix hit series The Queen’s Gambit. The 1993 film, Searching for Bobby ...
Dina Belenkaya on MSN
A chess player’s heart rate can reach 180 - but the mental toll goes much deeper
Behind chess’s quiet, intellectual image lies a world of extreme stress, isolation, and relentless pressure. The video ...
Bobby Fischer, who died on January 17 aged 64, was a high school dropout who may have been the greatest chess player of all time, but ended his life in eccentric seclusion. The United States-born ...
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 ...
Is there a link between chess and madness? It's a reasonable question, since the game has attracted more than its share of oddballs and troubled souls - some of them extremely troubled. It's also a ...
Outside the cloistered world that serious chess players inhabit, few would have taken any special note of the death last month of Pal Benko, at age 91. Benko was a top grand master and one of the game ...
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. He was 88.
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