Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that ...

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that ...

Bobby Fischer’s win over Soviet Boris Spassky amid the Cold War was seen as a symbol of American prowess in the intellectual arena. Today, Gukesh’s defeat of Ding heralds the emergence of a ...

Chess’s popularity has ebbed and flowed in past decades. Interest spiked when American Bobby Fischer toppled his Soviet opponent in the Cold War-era “Match of the Century,” for instance, and when ...

Only one was not won by a Soviet or former-Soviet citizen – Bobby Fischer in 1972 ... and soccer goalkeeper Lev Yashin. With the Cold War bubbling away and the USSR looking for any opportunity ...

Interest spiked when American Bobby Fischer toppled his Soviet opponent in the Cold War-era “Match of the Century,” for instance, and when Russian grand master Garry Kasparov lost to an IBM ...

The American grandmaster Hans Niemann had not left his apartment for four days before our lunch on a cold afternoon in ... over the board, just as Bobby Fischer famously relished the moment ...

A Cold War nuclear missile will remain in service for a total of 94 years thanks to a US$383 million US Navy contract, with Lockheed Martin to modernize the submarine-launched Trident II missile ...

There is now a new cold war taking shape. This is different in scope and substance compared to the one waged after the end of the Second World War. Then the contestants were what was at that time ...

The CWSP is located in the LSE Department of International History, the home of some of the leading scholars of the Cold War in Europe. The CWSP focuses on the history of the Cold War, which uses ...