Regina had asked him to break the news of Paul’s death to Bobby, and he wasn’t sure how to do it. ... We presented our findings at a Bobby Fischer symposium at the Marshall Chess Club in March.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with chess writer and grandmaster Andy Soltis about 11th World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer and the movie Pawn Sacrifice. ... Paul Marshall had called David Frost in ...

Journalist Frank Brady remembers the moment when Bobby Fischer first mesmerized the chess world. It was October 1956. Fischer, then just 13, was matched against 25-year-old Donald Byrne, an ...

Bobby Fischer Recalled. By . Christopher F. Chabris. Share. Resize. New York. Last weekend a symposium on Bobby Fischer was held at the Marshall Chess Club in Greenwich Village.

Our first glimpse of Bobby Fischer in "Pawn Sacrifice" is not the chess grandmaster's proudest moment. The year is 1972, when Fischer took on Soviet champion Boris Spassky for the world title in ...

Thanks to Dave Weigel, I see that Bobby Fischer, the world champion chess player, has died. Fischer was also a lunatic anti-Semite and Holocaust denier, in spite of being Jewish himself. Here's ...

The genius and madness of Bobby Fischer is dramatized in <i>Pawn Sacrifice</i>, a movie that, unlike the chess legend, doesn't take risks.