The Dodgers struggled early against the Braves Wednesday, but Shohei Ohtani capped an epic rally with a walk-off home run.

1989 — Michigan beats Seton Hall 80-79 in overtime to win the NCAA basketball championship. Rumeal Robinson hits two free ...

April 1975 was a month filled with controversy, technology revolutions and political decisions that have come to shape the ...

1966 — P Tom Seaver signs with the NY Mets. 1975 — Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend it, title awarded to Russian Anatoly Karpov. 1977 — Jean Ratelle of the Boston ...

India's greatest chess player, Viswanathan Anand, tried the trending 'pick your favourite' game to reveal his favourite World ...

Russia remains a rogue player on the international sporting stage. There’s no reason to start playing games with its athletes.

The history of chess is riddled with missed opportunities. Owing to a combination of bad timing, bad faith and bad luck, such all-time greats as Poland’s Akiba Rubinstein and Estonia’s Paul ...

The then world champion Anatoly Karpov competed twice, winning once and then losing to England’s Tony Miles. Ingenious editing made it possible for the players to appear to commentate during the ...

Following his loss to Fischer, Spassky bounced back to win the Soviet Championship in 1973. He was defeated in the Candidates matches by Anatoly Karpov, the future world champion.

One of the first to react was Soviet grandmaster Anatoly Karpov, who told TASS state news agency: “He was always one of my main idols.” Spassky is best remembered for his duel with American Bobby ...

A further blow came when in 1974 Spassky lost to the emerging Anatoly Karpov in Leningrad. Karpov, also awarded the title of Grandmaster, publicly acknowledged that Spassky was superior ...

His contributions to chess are acknowledged by many, including former champion Anatoly Karpov, who described Spassky as an enduring icon in the chess world. Spassky's death is a significant loss for ...