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. He was 88.

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match, has died at the age of 88.

Former chess world champion Boris Spassky passed away at the age of 88 on Thursday. We revisit his world championship match with USA’s Bobby Fischer which was dubbed as the ‘match of the century’ as t