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2 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Dylan Loeb McClain
At a time before his country became a chess powerhouse, he defeated four world champions, including one in an unlikely turn of events. He also led the game's governing body. Fridrik Olafsson, a chess grandmaster who helped make his native Iceland a bastion of the game, in part by defeating four world champions, including Bobby Fischer, the dominant American player, died on Friday in Reykjavík, the country's capital. He was 90.
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1 month ago | 
telegraphindia.com | Dylan Loeb McClain
His death was announced by the International Chess Federation, the game’s governing body, which did not cite a cause. Spassky had suffered a major stroke in 2010 that left him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life Dylan Loeb McClain Published 01.03.25, 05:42 AM Spassky (left) and Fischer played the last game of the ‘Match of the Century’ on August 31, 1972.
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1 month ago | 
spokesman.com | Dylan Loeb McClain
Boris Spassky, the world chess champion whose career was overshadowed by his loss to Bobby Fischer in the “Match of the Century” in 1972, died Thursday in Moscow. He was 88. His death was announced by the International Chess Federation, the game’s governing body, which did not cite a cause. Spassky had suffered a major stroke in 2010 that left him dependent on a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Dylan Loeb McClain
Boris Spassky, the world chess champion whose career was overshadowed by his loss to Bobby Fischer in the "Match of the Century" in 1972, died on Thursday in Moscow. He was 88. His death was announced by the International Chess Federation, the game's governing body, which did not cite a cause. He had been sick for a long time, having suffered a major stroke in 2010 that left him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
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2 months ago | 
phillytrib.com | Dylan Loeb McClain
A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research looks at what U.S. adults think about weight-loss drugs like Ozempic or Wegovy. (AP Video: Laura Bargfeld).
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Dylan Loeb McClain
This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. On May 8, 1962, a powerful rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The liftoff was a test of NASA's readiness for space exploration and a potentially groundbreaking moment in the Cold War space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Dylan Loeb McClain
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Martin Karplus, a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical chemist who used computers to model how complex systems change during chemical reactions, a process that has led to advances in the understanding of biological processes, died on Dec. 28 at his home in Cambridge, Mass.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
bostonglobe.com | Dylan Loeb McClain
J. Fraser Stoddart, who went from playing with construction sets as a boy to building molecular machines 1,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair, known as nanomachines, for which he shared the 2016 Nobel Prize in chemistry, died Dec. 30 in Melbourne, Australia. He was 82. Alison Margaret Stoddart, his daughter, said the Scottish scientist died of cardiac arrest at a hotel while visiting his other daughter, Fiona Jane McCubbin.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
en.chessbase.com | Dylan Loeb McClain
Ding, 32, won the title in April 2023. Afterward, amid physical and mental exhaustion, Ding vanished from the circuit for the rest of the year, withdrawing from many events that he had committed to playing. When he did return to action, he was clearly not the same player. He played tentatively and struggled in most of his games and seemed to lack confidence. His results were far below his previous level, and also below the level of what might be expected of a world champion.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Dylan Loeb McClain
Never has a chess world championship titleholder seemed as vulnerable. On Monday, Ding Liren, the reigning world champion, will begin a match in Singapore to defend the title against the 18-year-old player Gukesh Dommaraju. According to many of the world's best players, and Ding himself, he will be the underdog. Ding, 32, from China, won the title in April 2023 by beating Ian Nepomniachtchi in a thrilling playoff.
