The late Bobby Fischer was a chess prodigy who grew up to become one of the greatest chess players of all time. In later years, Fischer was also a reclusive nomad, who made anti-American and anti ...

Bobby Fischer, the enigmatic American chess genius who became a Cold War hero with his 1972 defeat of Soviet champion Boris Spassky but fell from grace in later decades when he became a recluse ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — For me to call Bobby Fischer an enigma would be like calling Elon Musk rich. I would merely be stating the obvious. But I need to call Fischer something. Then again ...

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 ...

Fischer's talking points never vary. Bobby Fischer is being persecuted by world Jewry. The United States government is a "brutal, evil dictatorship" that has falsely accused Bobby Fischer of a ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland – Late Thursday night, beneath a soft rain that came in off the Atlantic, Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn walked off a small white jet, stepped onto the wet tarmac and officially ...

Like a lot of kids in the summer of 1972, I was riveted by a strange spectacle unfolding in Iceland: a chess match between Soviet grandmaster Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer, the mercurial young ...

THE life of Bobby Fischer was one strange odyssey, in which he went from chess prodigy (at 14, the youngest United States champion ever), to the vanquisher of the famed Boris Spassky in 1972 in a ...