Bobby Fischer, the first U.S.-born chess player to become world champion, died yesterday in Iceland of an unspecified illness, the country’s national radio said. He was 64, and had lived in secrecy ...

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Bobby Fischer, Eccentric Chess Champion, Dies at 64The story of international grand chess master Bobby Fischer has a lot of New York highlights. Fischer grew up and learned chess in Brooklyn, and for ...

Bobby Fischer, the reclusive American chess master who became a Cold War icon when he dethroned the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky as world champion in 1972, has died. He was 64. Fischer died in a ...

(JTA) — The host of a popular game show on Bulgarian public TV quoted on air the anti-Semitic rantings of the late chess master Bobby Fischer, then apologized the following day, a day after the ...

‘Bobby Fischer Against the World’ (2011) You don’t need to know the difference between a bishop and a knight to be sucked into this fascinating documentary about one of America’s greatest mad geniuses ...

You don’t need to know the difference between a bishop and a knight to be sucked into this fascinating documentary about one of America’s greatest mad geniuses. Director Liz Garbus deserves an ...

Japan ruled out granting chess master Bobby Fischer his wish to leave for Iceland on Tuesday, saying he can only be deported to the United States. Fischer, in custody in Japan since his arrest last ...

At a time before his country became a chess powerhouse, he defeated four world champions, including Bobby Fischer and another in an unlikely turn of events. By Dylan Loeb McClain When Mr. Spassky, a ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland - "Chess," Bobby Fischer once said, "is life." It was the chess master's tragedy that the messy, tawdry details of his life often overshadowed the sublime genius of his game.