Schmid turned, took Bobby’s elbow and tried to lead him to the front stage to acknowledge the cheers and applause of the crowd. But Fischer shyly ducked back to the playing table and leaned over ...

Did chess make Bobby insane? Did his mother ... agreed to give him asylum in 2005. Though a crowd cheered and welcomed Fischer at the Reykjavik airport, it was soon clear that all they’d ...

Well, maybe many chess aficionados think thus of Kasparov, but just as many if not more think that Bobby Fischer deserves that accolade. Kasparov is undoubtedly the "crowd favorite" because of his ...

At the height of the Cold War in the 1960s a young American chess prodigy called Bobby ... of one of Fischer’s victories in their head-to-head, the defeated Spassky joined the crowd by rising ...

What I knew of Bobby Fischer was next to nothing ... At this point, whoever’s holding the camera takes it off of Fischer, and we see the crowd of reporters for the first time.

Brilliant, controversial, and tragically flawed; chess superstar Bobby Fischer seized the world’s attention in the early 1970s both on and off the board. Over the course of three assignments for ...

Bobby Fischer, who died a melancholy exile’s death Friday at age 64, was that most perplexing of human characters -- a protean genius and a repellent man. He was to American chess what Ezra ...

Boris Spassky, legendary Russian chess player and the 10th World Chess Champion who rose to international fame in the 1972 “Match of the Century” against American Bobby Fischer, died Thursday ...

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 ...