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Harry Benson's photos – taken at the height of Fischer's powers – break down more of his barriers than anything written about him to date.

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 ...

Young Bobby Fischer. Fischer grew up in Brooklyn, where he learned to play chess when he was 6. He quickly began to spend all of his time reading chess books and studying chess games — so much ...

Bobby Fischer, left, playing Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian at the 1971 chess championship. Photob by Keystone/Getty Images I went to the tiny town of Laugarvatn in southern Iceland to spend a month ...

Zita Rajcsanyi visits her good friend Bobby Fischer often these days, all because she had the nerve to do what many only think of doing: She wrote a letter to her lifelong hero. “I wrote a ...

I got along with Bobby Fischer because I knew nothing about chess. Bobby thought anyone who knew about chess was a moron. I met Bobby in Buenos Aires in 1971, while on assignment for Life magazine ...

Journalist Frank Brady remembers the moment when Bobby Fischer first mesmerized the chess world. It was October 1956. Fischer, then just 13, was matched against 25-year-old Donald Byrne, an ...

Bobby Fischer by Harry Benson, published by PowerHouse books, will be available on June 14. Bobby Fischer Against the World, Documentary premieres June 6, HBO.

When Bobby Fischer came face to face with Boris Spassky in 1972, write David Edmonds and John Eidinow, many Westerners saw him as "a lone American star challenging the long Soviet grip on the ...