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.

A horrific murder with ties to Tucson is getting a fresh look in a new true-crime podcast that aims to finally solve the 23-year-old case. On April 10, 2001, emergency crews rushed to a house in ...

"Most great Jewish athletes have at least this in common: They overcome God's gifts." That joke—the only one in Jonathan Safran Foer's depressing essay about Bobby Fisher, the Jewish chess genius ...