Fifty years ago, the Cold War was transposed to a chessboard as Bobby Fischer of ... Grown up in the New York suburb of Brooklyn, Fischer became the world's youngest ever chess grand master at the age of 15 and dropped out of school to focus on the game.

MOSCOW (AP) — 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 on Thursday in Moscow. He was 88.

The televised 1972 match with Fischer, at the height of the Cold War, became an international ... the then-29-year-old chess genius from Brooklyn, New York, brought the U.S. its first world ...