Fisher's 1972 match was Cold War battle
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The historic chess match between American Bobby Fischer and Soviet champion Boris Spassky was the Cold War played out with pawns instead of missiles, a combat of mind games between two masters at the height of their powers.
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Lindsay Davenport of the US returns a shot during a match against Francesca Schiavone of Italy at the Kremlin Cup tennis tournament in Moscow&#39;s Olympic Indoor stadium on Friday, Oct. 15, 2004.
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Crumbling sport stadiums still  stand in many African capitals, the enduring symbols of China's  Cold War courtship of the world's poorest continent during the  1960s and 1970s.
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The Cold War titans have done this dance many times before.
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Bill Brown, former goalkeeper of theScottish national soccer team, has died at the age of 73. Brown, a member of Tottenham Hotspur&#39;s 1961 double-winning side,died at Simcoe, Ontario
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ATOMIC CITY, Idaho  - In the early days of the  Cold War, a small team of U.S. scientists watched as nuclear  energy powered four light bulbs for the first time.
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Bobby Fischer, who became America's first and only world chess champion after defeating the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky at the height of the Cold War, has died at the age of 64.
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During the Battle of the Bulge, which started 60 years ago today, Pvt. Joe Manoni made one of those fateful, almost psychic, decisions.
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Bobby Fischer, America's first and only world chess champion who was once dubbed the "Mozart of Chess", has died in Iceland at the age of 64.
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Fugitive chess master Bobby Fischer has been offered a new home in Iceland, where he won a classic victory in 1972, but it is unclear whether he will be able to make the move from his detention in Japan.
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Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has died at the age of 64, Icelandic media reports
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Head-to-heads: The two teams have met 49 times since 1956-57. Australia hold the advantage with 21 victories while Pakistan have won 11, with 17 draws.
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Bobby Fischer, the chess champion who made a name for himself by beating the Russians then turning his back on America - and the game - has died
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IT WAS typical of the trend of the match that it should finish this way. There was a power threat lurking from early on in a contest that took an age to warm up.
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Revisiting the lessons of Garry Kasparov's historic loss to an IBM computer.
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Former chess champion Bobby Fischer won a major battle in his fight against deportation to the United States, as a court ruled Wednesday he can stay in Japan until his lawsuit against the deportation order has been heard, his supporters said.
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1979: The Soviet Union sends troops into Afghanistan to support a pro-Moscow regime, sparking a decade-long war with anti-communist forces supplied and trained by the United States.