Review: Bobby Fischer biography offers clues to his descent from brilliance to near-madness. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 50°F. Sunday, April 6th 2025 Today's e-Edition.

Bobby Fischer, checkmated by death Thursday in Iceland at the age of 64, was one of those towering and eternally fascinating geniuses that you would never want to be, not for a moment.

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 ...

The biography, the documentary and the photographs indicate that our fascination with Fischer refuses to fade. Advertisement “Bobby brought brilliance, joy and beauty to the chessboard, and we ...

Bobby, 6, learns how to play chess with his older sister, Joan, using a set bought from a... The life and times of Bobby Fischer SF Gate Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

Bobby Fischer was such an iconic American player that many a freshman dorm room has been decorated with ... In his later life, Fischer made multiple Anti-semitic and Anti-American remarks on the ...

Grandmaster Bobby Fischer, pictured above in 1971 at age 28, is considered to have been the world's most brilliant chess player. In his new Fischer biography, Endgame, Frank Brady writes that the ...

NEW details are emerging about the Bobby Fischer saga. Fischer has been more or less underground since 1976, when, he says, he stopped paying U.S. taxes. After his brief return to chess in his 1992… ...