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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The World Chess Championship has reached a thrilling ... decided not to defend his title. American great Bobby Fischer was the last grandmaster to give up his world title in 1975.

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 ...