Boris Spassky

LeRoy Neiman dies at 91; artist depicted sports in bold strokes

2012-06-20 21:55:00

LeRoy Neiman, a wildly successful American artist who was famous for his colorful portraits of athletes in motion and who became an artistic fixture at such major sporting events as the Olympics and the Super Bowl, has died. He was 91. Neiman, who was...

Monday's Highlights: 'Switched at Birth' on ABC Family

2011-06-05 21:37:04

Larry Evans dies at 78; five-time U.S. chess champion and writer

2010-11-23 00:00:00

Larry Evans was a rarity in competitive chess — a five-time U.S. champion who wrote widely about the game, including a book once considered the chess players' bible. A chess grandmaster, he also gained fame for helping Bobby Fischer train for,...

PASSINGS: William Coblentz, Bent Larsen, Carlton Coleman, Juan Mari Bras, Hadley Caliman

2010-09-15 00:00:00

William Coblentz Former University of California regent William Coblentz, 88, an attorney and former University of California regent who fought against South Africa's apartheid policies and upheld the right of communist philosopher Angela Davis to teach...

Chasing the king of chess

2009-09-21 00:00:00

Like a lot of kids in the summer of 1972, I was riveted by a strange spectacle unfolding in Iceland: a chess match between Soviet grandmaster Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer, the mercurial young American. The games weren't televised -- Fischer...

Bobby Fischer dies at 64; reclusive genius of the chess board

2008-01-19 00:00:00

Bobby Fischer, the enigmatic American chess genius who became a Cold War hero with his 1972 defeat of Soviet champion Boris Spassky but fell from grace in later decades when he became a recluse and fugitive known for his hate-filled rants, has died. He...

Annual Hay Festival is one for the books

2008-06-22 00:00:00

The small market town of Hay, nestled on the border between England and Wales, is an unlikely setting for one of the world's biggest book festivals. It has a population of less than 2,000, and the nearest train station is 30 miles away. Yet each year,...

TODAY IN HISTORY

2011-09-01 01:05:43

1807: Former Vice President Aaron Burr was found not guilty of treason. Burr was then tried on a misdemeanor charge, but was again acquitted. 1941: The first municipally owned parking building in the United States opened in Welch, W. Va. 1972:...

FFF 2011 movie review: Bobby Fischer Against the World

2011-04-02 16:37:00

Garry Kasparov sugiere a los jóvenes no tener miedo al fracaso

2010-11-21 00:00:00

Exhuman restos de ajedrecista Bobby Fischer por prueba de paternidad

2010-07-05 00:00:00

Fischer wears a laurel wreath after defeating rival Spassky in 1992 in a $5-million rematch.

2009-09-18 17:02:51

17, 2008, in Reykjavik, Iceland. He was 64. Fischer, shown here in 1962, had lived in Iceland since 2005, when that country, which had hosted his legendary match against Spassky, offered him citizenship. He had been on the run from U.S.

2008-01-21 00:00:00

Bobby Fischer, chess master, Jan. 17 Bobby Fischer, the reclusive American chess master who became a Cold War icon when he dethroned the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky as world champion in 1972, died at his home in Reykjavik, Iceland, on Jan. 17. He was 64.

2008-01-18 04:33:57