Bobby Fischer’s rise to fame began in Crown Heights, 560 Lincoln Place, Apt. Q, with a plastic chess set his sister gave him when he was 6. It reached its pinnacle in a hangar-shaped sports hall ...

Bobby Fischer, the enigmatic American chess genius ... About this time, when he was 6, Bobby’s sister gave him a chess set and he began to learn the game. When, within a short while, it became ...

A chessboard, with pieces set up on it ... imposing number of champions and chess masters in its membership. “That’s Bobby’s favorite hangout,” Mrs. Fischer said.

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary ... to take the world title. "I never set myself the goal of becoming world champion.

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary ... to take the world title. "I never set myself the goal of becoming world champion.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — For me to call Bobby Fischer an enigma would ... to win the World Chess Championship in Reykjavik, Iceland. Fischer vs. Spassky had Americans like me, whether we understood ...

a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow. He was 88. The death ...

Arrest me. And put me in the same cell with Bobby Fischer. And give us a chess set.” He continued to study chess after returning to postwar Leningrad, and at 10 he won a game against Soviet ...

Arrest me. And put me in the same cell with Bobby Fischer. And give us a chess set.” Boris Vasilyevich Spassky was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) on Jan. 30, 1937. During World War II ...

MOSCOW — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow.