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 ...

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, who has died at the age of 64, was a talented chess grandmaster once hailed as an American hero for breaking a Soviet dominance of the game that had lasted nearly 30 years. His surprise ...

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 ...

Across the table from him was Bobby Fischer, just a teenager but already a grand master of the game. Fischer was never without his pocket chessboard, and as they lingered over dinner, he pulled it ...

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 ...

It’s no exaggeration to call Bobby Fischer one of the most admired and one of the most reviled figures in American history. The admiration is prompted by his precocious rise to the pinnacle of ...

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 ...

Bobby Fischer Against the World: Documentary. 9 p.m. Mon. with encore broadcasts on HBO. Artist LeRoy Neiman could have been summarizing the HBO documentary "Bobby Fischer Against the World" when ...

It’s a bit odd that “Bobby Fischer Against the World,” Liz Garbus’s confident yet morose documentary about the mentally troubled 1972 world chess champion, doesn’t have any surprise ...