Russian chess grandmaster Boris Spassky dies at 88

FILE - Russian-born chess master Boris Spassky, left, shakes hands with US master Bobby Fischer at the beginning of their first match in the Hotel Maestral in Sveti Stefan, Montenegro, on Sept. 2, 1992.

Soviet chess grandmaster Boris Spassky, who was famously defeated at the height of the Cold War, has died at 88, the Russian Chess Federation announced Thursday.