Of course Bobby Fischer was crazy. It’s charitable to say so, in fact, because if he wasn’t crazy, he was something worse: a poison-dripping hater of Jews and other human beings, and a ...

Like a lot of kids in the summer of 1972, I was riveted by a strange spectacle unfolding in Iceland: a chess match between Soviet grandmaster Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer, the mercurial young ...

It’s no exaggeration to call Bobby Fischer one of the most admired and one of the most reviled figures in American history. The admiration is prompted by his precocious rise to the pinnacle of ...

I got along with Bobby Fischer because I knew nothing about chess. Bobby thought anyone who knew about chess was a moron. I met Bobby in Buenos Aires in 1971, while on assignment for Life magazine ...

Bobby Fischer was only 29 when, in the midst of the Cold War, he defeated the Russian defending champion Boris Spassky in the World Chess Championship on September 1, 1972, ending 24 years of ...

“The next Bobby Fischer could come from an unlikely place, the city’s oldest elementary school on the outskirts of a Latin barrio” (1994). “10-year-old chess wizard has all the right moves ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland – 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 ...

Bobby Fischer, left, playing Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian at the 1971 chess championship. Photob by Keystone/Getty Images I went to the tiny town of Laugarvatn in southern Iceland to spend a month ...

Bobby Fischer (right) shook hands with the chief referee of the World Chess Championship after learning that his opponent, Boris Spassky, resigned from the match.

Bobby Fischer 1943 - 2008 Bobby Fischer, the iconoclastic genius who was one of the greatest chess players the world has ever seen, died on Jan. 17, 2008 in a hospital in Reykjavík, Iceland.

Columnist Justice B. Hill remembers the way chess prodigy Bobby Fischer's match with Russian Boris Spassky riveted Americans 50 years ago.