Boris Spassky is best remembered for his duel with American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries. Gov. Abbott said he is proud the Texas House has the ...

Bobby Fischer’s strangest endgame ... And considering that Koizumi’s Liberal Democratic Party did poorly in the election for parliament’s upper house, held earlier this month, ...

Bobby Fischer, 1972 Harry Benson. By Harry Benson ... Just before the match, I went to photograph the Nixons in the White House, and President Nixon said to me: "Please give Bobby a message.

Trump Is No Bobby Fischer. The president isn’t playing 3-D chess in the war in Ukraine. Share. Resize. Listen (57 sec) Donald Trump at the White House, Feb. 28. Photo: shawn thew/Shutterstock.

This time she stayed at a luxury hotel instead of Fischer’s friend’s house. And this time, it was all business: Fischer was to face Spassky again, 20 years after their famous first match.

It was the chess match of the century. Harry Benson, author of a new book about the late, troubled champion, recalls his friend’s battle against Spassky, in this week’s Newsweek.

But when he did call the photographer’s house, he would announce himself to Benson’s wife, Gigi, by saying “This is Bobby Fischer, Harry Benson’s friend”—a gesture that Benson always ...

Bobby Fischer was singing the blues. As he wailed along with a 1965 recording by Jackie ("Mr. Excitement") Wilson, his voice—a gravelly baritone ravaged by age but steeled by anger—rumbled ...

A March 25, 2005 file photo showing Bobby Fischer answering a question at a press conference in Reykjavik, Iceland. Fischer, the reclusive chess genius who became a Cold War hero by dethroning the ...

One of the conundrums of the 1972 chess explosion was Richard Nixon's failure to invite Bobby Fischer to the White House. Fischer, of course, had dealt an embarrassing blow to Soviet chess ...