P ARIS, France — Fifty years ago, the Cold War was transposed to a chessboard as Bobby Fischer of the United States took on ...

At a time before his country became a chess powerhouse, he defeated four world champions, including Bobby Fischer and another in an unlikely turn of events. By Dylan Loeb McClain Dylan Loeb ...

Boris Spassky, the Soviet chess grandmaster who became a Cold War icon after his famous defeat to Bobby Fischer in the 1972 ...