Shrewd or boorish? American chess prodigy defeated Soviet champion in '72 world championship match.
Born to a Jewish family in Chicago but raised in Brooklyn, New York, Fischer was the only American to ever claim the mantle of world chess champion. Richard Meek / Sports Illustrated Though Fischer ...
US chess champion Bobby Fischer and the two "K"s -- Garry Kasparov and Anatoli Karpov -- have co-written the modern history of the game, with a chapter devoted to East-West confrontation. In the 1970s ...
Madison City Chess League's recent Queen's Quest chess tournament, held at the Mill Creek Elementary School, Madison, set a record turnout for the annual event. Over the last couple of weekends, chess ...
The play follows the tournament through, as both Fischer (Robert Emms, pictured below right) and Spassky (Ronan Raftery) spiral into paranoia, amplified by their various minders; at one point, there’s ...
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Fred Waitzkin is the author of "Searching for Bobby Fischer" (Penguin, 1993) and, most recently, "The Last Marlin: The Story of a Father and Son." I recall a crisp, terribly exciting fall afternoon in ...
The boy wonder was just 14 years old, a Brooklyn comet streaking across the skies of the rarefied world of chess. Bobby Fischer’s sister had taught him the game when he was 6. By the time he turned 12 ...
Bobby Fischer, the reclusive chess genius who became a Cold War hero by dethroning the Soviet world champion in 1972 and later renounced his American citizenship, has died. He was 64. Fisher died of ...
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