Bobby Fischer, the chess prodigy who won a world title in 1972, was investigated by FBI agents who suspected his mother was a Communist spy, according to FBI files obtained by the Philadelphia ...

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.

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 ...

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 this self-taught Brooklyn boy ... books and studying chess games — so much so, in fact, that his mother, Regina, began to grow concerned with the amount of time he was ...

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 ...

“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 ...

But when they talk of Brooklyn’s Bobby Fischer, the newly crowned U.S. champion ... Bobby grew up under his mother’s wing, learned the moves of chess from his older sister at the age of ...