Over the course of three assignments for Life Magazine in 1971 and 1972, legendary photographer Harry Benson chronicled the enigmatic Bobby Fischer at the absolute pinnacle of his chess career.

Even in the grave, it seems, one-time chess prodigy and wandering recluse Bobby Fischer has not escaped controversy. The AP reports (h/t: ABA Journal) that Iceland's Supreme Court orderedearlier ...

<p> In Steve Zaillian's first directing effort, Mantegna plays the real-life Fred Waitzkin, a slightly overbearing but well-meaning father who wants his 8-year-old prodigy son to succeed in the ...

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 ...

He was probably the greatest chess player the world has ever seen. He also was virulently anti-American and anti-Semitic, odd because he was born in Chicago to a Jewish woman. Bobby Fischer, who ...

After an international hunt that lasted more than a decade, U.S. authorities have finally nabbed a slippery fugitive from justice: former chess wunderkind BOBBY FISCHER, 61. (We feel safer already ...

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Fischer grew up and learned chess in Brooklyn, and for those not old enough to remember his iconic role in the Cold War, the Washington Square Park scenes from the movie Searching for Bobby ...

Fischer, 61, was arrested here in July for trying to board a plane to the Philippines allegedly using an invalid U.S. passport, and has since been in custody at an immigration detention center ...