The Washington Square Park in New York sees chess hustlers dare passersby to a game under leafy canopies, earning as much as ...

Shrewd or boorish? American chess prodigy defeated Soviet champion in '72 world championship match.

Bobby Fischer, 64, an eccentric genius many considered the greatest chess player in the history of the game and who remains the only American of the modern era to win a world championship, died Jan.

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.