Boris Spassky, Soviet Chess Champion Who Lost Famed Cold War-Era Match to Bobby Fischer ... At the time of their famous match, the Soviet Union had compiled an unbroken streak of world chess ...

FILE - Bobby Fischer, right, and Boris Spassky play their last game together in Reykjavik, Iceland, Aug. 31, 1972. (AP Photo/J. Walter Green, File) ...

Boris Spassky's 1972 World Chess Championship match against Bobby Fischer became known as the "Match of the Century." - J. Walter Green/AP ...

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost ... against the American prodigy Fischer. With the Cold War at its height and the Soviet Union having dominated the game for years ...

Even though the eastern and western parts of Germany were reunified into the single sovereign nation of Germany in 1990, the ...

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.

A submarine base in Balaklava was once a Soviet secret, then it reopened as a tourist museum. Now, observers claim the base ...

A chilling map from the Cold War era has resurfaced, predicting the areas of the US where 75% of the population would perish in a hypothetical World War 3 nuclear strike. The map's reappearance ...

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.

During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...