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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Life & style: Anger therapist Mike Fisher found himself struggling to follow his own advice  when he got into a spat with a rival in the same field. By Robert Hudson
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Russia and China - former Cold War foes - will hold an unprecedented military exercise in the second half of 2005. The war game, involving naval ships and aircraft, will take place on Chinese territory, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov said.
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âSix Days,â about the 1967 war in the Middle East, makes for an interesting compare-and-contrast exercise.
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A new report shows that controversial interrogation techniques were drawn from enemy tactics during the Cold War
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Former Sun Bowl Director Sam Jenkins remembers that 60 years ago today, about a million soldiers began the largest land battle of World War II, a deadly fight known as the Battle of the Bulge and Adolf Hitler&#39;s last offensive to defeat the allies.
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Moscow is engaged in its own strategic competition with the U.S., which may guide its response to the Iran nuclear standoff
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the Minnesota Vikings and Los Angeles Rams started 6-0 in 1973 â-ut that doesn&#39;t mean New York Jets coach Herman
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Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer  has appealed after a Tokyo court rejected his bid to halt  deportation procedures from Japan, a fate he is also trying to  escape by the more romantic move of wedding a Japan chess  great.
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It is 60 years since the three major allied leaders, Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, met to divide up the world in the old summer palace of the tsars in the Crimean resort of Yalta - and the dark memories of ...
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US basketball once stood in the same Olympic pantheon as Cuban boxing and Chinese table tennis. From basketball&#39;s inclusion in the Games in 1936 until this summer, the United States
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The English writer George Orwell once expressed doubts about the wisdom of sports contests as a way of bringing nations together. He was writing during the Cold War when the sports arena became a substitute battlefield between the West and East.
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By Jack Dorsey, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Sep. 23--SUFFOLK -- In a $35 million experiment that uses a computer game with 1,200 players, the military is studying the war of the future.
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It has been a little more than three years since Patrick McEnroe brought the US Davis Cup team to Winston-Salem for a tie against India in October 2001.
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Iceland is under U.S. pressure to drop plans to offer a home to fugitive former chess champion Bobby Fischer, who is wanted for breaking sanctions against Yugoslavia in 1992, officials said Monday.
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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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TOKYO/REYKJAVIK  - 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.