The Boy King Bobby Fischer learned to play chess by reading the rulebook. He learned Russian so he could study the Soviets’ voluminous chess literature. He implored his mother, Regina ...

Before Bobby Fischer left for Russia ... The FBI heard from another informant: Fischer had called his mother in the United States and told her, "It's no good here." Agents weren't sure what ...

His mother Regina, recently divorced but without ... But U.S. justice may have finally caught up with Bobby Fischer." "Hard to corner?" Fischer has his own Web site. Fans send him e-mail.

Bobby Fischer was and would be the greatest chess champion who ever lived.” Born in Chicago on March 9, 1943, he barely knew his father, a German physicist who divorced his mother when he was 2.

“That’s Bobby’s favorite hangout,” Mrs. Fischer said. “Sometimes I have to go over there at midnight to haul him out of the place.” Robert’s mother and father have been divorced for ...

Bobby Fischer Against the World ... From the time he was about 2 years old, his mother was increasingly absent from his life, often off protesting one thing or another, leaving young Bobby ...

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.