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 ...

Bobby Fischer has always worked at his chess with deadly intensity— an unkempt kid, his hazel eyes glowering beneath a snarl of mouse-brown hair as he systematically plotted checkmate after ...

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.

After an international hunt that lasted more than a decade, U.S. authorities have finally nabbed a slippery fugitive from justice: former chess wunderkind BOBBY FISCHER, 61. (We feel safer already ...

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 ...