Kotaku

Auto Chess War

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Auto Chess War This is a casual game like chess, in this world of swords and magic, a new and unique adventure has just begun, choose your soldiers, platoon ...
The Washington Post

State funding made chess a Cold War game. It could make a comeback.

In the summer of 1972, Henry Kissinger made a clandestine phone call. President Richard M. Nixon’s adviser wasn’t calling a head of state or ringing a diplomat. He instead phoned the American chess ...
Penn Live

Soviet chess champion who lost famed Cold War-era game to U.S. has died

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 Thursday in ...
The Boston Globe

Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion who lost famed Cold War-era match to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88

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 Thursday in ...
AOL

The cheat’s gambit: Grandmasters go to war over claims 46-game blitz chess streak was tainted

Hikaru Nakamura plays chess like he talks — at a hundred miles an hour. The 35-year-old grandmaster has been the top ranked US player for over a decade and livestreams rapid fire games of online blitz ...
FOX 5 Atlanta

Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champ who lost Cold War’s ‘Match of the Century,’ dies at 88

Boris Spassky, former world chess champion, died in Moscow at 88. He was best known for his 1972 "Match of the Century" loss to Bobby Fischer. The International Chess Federation called Spassky "one of ...
Kotaku

War Chess

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from War Chess War Chess is a basically a chess game with a unusual presentation. All the set pieces for the game are substituted for the character of the High ...