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 ...

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 ...

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

Today’s athletes are polished to perfection. Every move is rehearsed, every word pre-approved, and every instinct tamed by ...

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.

Die Weltmeisterschaft in Singapur wurde von einigen in Indien mit dem klassischen Showdown zwischen dem Amerikaner Bobby Fischer und dem sowjetischen Meister Boris Spassky auf dem Höhepunkt des ...

Higher ELO ratings usually portray the winner of a game, tournament or match. Bobby Fischer was higher ELO rated than champion Boris Spassky when he won the World Championship title in 1972.

The world championship in Singapore was compared by some in India to the classic showdown between the American Bobby Fischer and Soviet great Boris Spassky at the height of the Cold War in 1972.

The world championship in Singapore was compared by some in India to the classic showdown between the American Bobby Fischer and Soviet great Boris Spassky at the height of the Cold War in 1972.

The 1972 world championship in Reykjavík, Iceland, in which American Bobby Fischer dethroned the Soviet Union’s Boris Spassky, was widely framed as a contest between the rival superpowers.