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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, seen here in New York on April 28, 1962, became world famous when he defeated Boris Spassky in 1972. John Lent / AP File July 5, 2010, 10:11 AM EDT / Source : The Associated Press ...

Once a Cold War icon, ... Bobby Fischer’s rise to fame began in Crown Heights, 560 Lincoln Place, Apt. Q, with a plastic chess set his sister gave him when he was 6.

But Mr Fischer, for all his elegant suits and childhood genius, his grandmastership at 15 and his 20-game winning streak at championship level in 1968-71, was always an unsettling poster-boy.

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.

Fred Waitzkin is the author of "Searching for Bobby Fischer" (Penguin, 1993) and, most recently, "The Last Marlin: The Story of a Father and Son." I recall a crisp, terribly exciting fall ...

Bobby Fischer, the American chess icon whose name became synonymous with the game in the United States, died of kidney failure in an Iceland hospital Thursday. Fischer, who was 64, won the world ...

Fischer, one of the greatest chess players of all time, was also a recluse who made anti-American and anti-Semitic statements and seemed increasingly lost in the depths of his own mind. Filmmaker ...