It was fought in Iceland and it was a chess match - one between the American Bobby Fischer and the Russian ... and known ever since as the Lewis Chessmen. Sixty-seven are in the British Museum.

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

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