Magnus Carlsen, the world’s top chess player ... Interest spiked when American Bobby Fischer toppled his Soviet opponent in the Cold War-era “Match of the Century,” for instance, and ...

MOSCOW — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary ... Top chess player Magnus Carlsen is back in competition after quitting ...

STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — Few chess players enjoy Magnus Carlsen's celebrity ... s Garry Kasparov and American Bobby Fischer ...

Magnus Carlsen, the world’s top chess player ... Interest spiked when American Bobby Fischer toppled his Soviet opponent in the Cold War-era “Match of the Century,” for instance, and ...

Magnus Carlsen, the world’s top chess player, is bored of chess. Carlsen has spent much of the past year appearing to dismiss the game he has mastered: It was no longer exciting to play, he told a ...

Magnus Carlsen ... The pair devised a new chess tour to address their concerns. Carlsen suggested the rules: Chess960, or Fischer Random chess, a version of chess first proposed by Fischer ...