Bobby Fischer, the reclusive chess genius who became a Cold War hero by dethroning the Soviet world champion in 1972 and later renounced his American citizenship, has died. He was 64. By The ...

US chess champion Bobby Fischer and the two "K"s -- Garry Kasparov and Anatoli Karpov -- have co-written the modern history of the game, with a chapter devoted to East-West confrontation. In the 1970s ...

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, maybe I just ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Boris Spassky, 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 ...

The story of chess champion Bobby Fischer was always ripe for a Hollywood adaptation, rich in Cold War paranoia, FBI surveillance, media celebrity and mad genius. It’s the sort of “Beautiful Mind” ...

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with chess writer and grandmaster Andy Soltis about 11th World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer and the movie Pawn Sacrifice. In the summer of 1972, the world's attention was ...

Perri Nemiroff is the 2025 Press Award winner at the ICG Publicists Awards. She's the senior producer at Collider where she hosts and produces the interview series, Collider Ladies Night, a show ...

Even if your knowledge of chess is limited to that scene in the first Harry Potter movie, there's one chess player whose name you probably know. Bobby Fischer was such an iconic American player that ...

No sports fan need be reminded of the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, but what about the agony of victory, the unraveling that can occur when your triumph is so complete there are no more ...

Born to a Jewish family in Chicago but raised in Brooklyn, New York, Fischer was the only American to ever claim the mantle of world chess champion. Richard Meek / Sports Illustrated Though Fischer ...