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 ...

I got along with Bobby Fischer because I knew nothing about chess. Bobby thought anyone who knew about chess was a moron. I met Bobby in Buenos Aires in 1971, while on assignment for Life magazine ...

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.

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.

That is, Bobby Fischer’s chess embodied qualities that he never showed anywhere else in his life. There lies the great irony of his life and work: This eccentric man showed a surpassing sanity ...

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, 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 ...

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 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 ...

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… ...