It was the most popular opening for the first three centuries of modern chess. Paul Morphy relied on it heavily during his meteoric rise to world supremacy in the mid-19th century. Bobby Fischer ...

Fifty years ago, right in the middle of the Cold War, an eccentric American named Bobby Fischer upended a long reign of Russian dominance in chess, and the world was forever changed. Untold numbers ...

Boris Spassky, the 10th world chess champion, will be in Reno, Nev., Oct. 13-17, giving lectures and playing a simultaneous exhibition at the Western States Open. Recently he wrote a letter to ...

We’re on a mini-break this week, but thought we’d get a head start on the 50th anniversary celebrations this year to mark the epic 1972 Fischer-Spassky match. Here are excerpts from a couple of ...

During the summer of 1972, the war in Vietnam was raging, Richard Nixon was running for re-election against George McGovern and the Cold War was going full tilt. In July and August of that year, ...