OSLO, Norway, April 22, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The World Fischer Random Chess Championship is now officially recognized by FIDE and will start on Chess.com. This historic event will feature an ...

The World Chess Championship is heading toward a dramatic conclusion on Wednesday, which could give the U.S. its first champion since Bobby Fischer took the crown in 1972.. The players will embark ...

Fabiano Caruana will be the first American to play for the World Chess Championship since Bobby Fischer in 1972. Caruana will face three-time champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway. Caruana has been a ...

Former chess champion Bobby Fischer dies at 64, according to spokesman. ... At 14, he won the United States Open Championship for the first of eight times. At 15, ...

The press conference in Dubai ahead of the World Chess Championship is running 30 minutes late. However, that hasn’t quelled the feverish anticipation of the crowd of journalists clambering for ...

First American since Bobby Fischer qualifies to challenge World Chess Champion 00:40. In what's being billed as a historic result for American chess, 25-year-old Fabiano Caruana has emerged after ...

The strain of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Trophy tournament, as the masters championship is called, has been severe, according to Mrs. Fischer, and Bobby was anxious to forget chess and concentrate ...

When the American Bobby Fischer challenged the Russian Boris Spassky for the World Chess Championship in 1972 the media looked on in fascination. It seemed the Cold War was being played out in ...

Game 4 of the World Chess Championship in London began with a fitting ... the U.S. challenger and world No. 2 trying to become the first American world champion since Bobby Fischer in 1972, ...

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.