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.

The world champion, dethroned by the American in the middle of the Cold War, died on February 27 in Moscow at the age of 88 after a life worthy of the movies ...

He was 88. Spassky lost his world championship title in 1972 to America’s Bobby Fischer, in a match styled “Match of the Century.” Arkady Dvorkovich, president of the International Chess ...

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Boris Spassky, the Soviet chess grandmaster who became a Cold War icon after his famous defeat to Bobby Fischer in the 1972 "Match of the Century," has died in Moscow at the age of 88. The ...