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 ...

Carl Mydans—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Bobby Fischer in a used bookstore, New York, 1962. Carl Mydans—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Bobby Fischer plays chess with an ...

In real life, Fischer later had all of them removed, leaving him with a mouthful of hollow teeth. “Paranoids,” he once reportedly told an opponent, “can be right.” ...

BOBBY FISCHER, 64, CHESS MASTER. BOBBY FISCHER, 64 ... Later, I became his collaborator on "My 60 Memorable ... And the great tragedy of his life was not defending his world title in 1975 against ...

Fred Waitzkin is the author of "Searching for Bobby Fischer" (Penguin, 1993) and, ... and then years later I was set on fire by my son, ... such as Fischer, the outside life becomes secondary to ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland – Bobby Fischer, the reclusive chess genius who became a Cold War hero by dethroning the Soviet world champion in 1972 and later renounced his American citizenship, has died.

Bobby thought anyone who knew about chess was a moron. I met Bobby in Buenos Aires in 1971, while on assignment for Life magazine. He was out for a walk late at night.

Bobby Fischer, the reclusive chess genius who became a Cold War hero by dethroning the Soviet world champion in 1972 and later renounced his American citizenship, has died. He was 64.

It’s no exaggeration to call Bobby Fischer one of the most admired and one of the most reviled figures in American history. The admiration is prompted by his precocious rise to the pinnacle of ...

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.