Courtesy of wikimedia commons There’s a new sort of chess. It’s flashy, it’s exciting. It’s called Freestyle Chess, or ...

Every serious chess player should be familiar with these games, replaying them over and over again. One of the games is International Master Donald Byrne vs Grandmaster Bobby Fischer, at the ...

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.