PARK CITY — In his heyday in 1972, when he beat Russian Boris Spassky for the World Championship, chess prodigy Bobby Fischer was like a rock star, as famous and revered as Muhammad Ali.

Bobby Fischer Against the World It's hard to believe that 40 years ago, with Vietnam, Watergate and other lasting headlines vying for attention, people around the globe stood in thrall to chess.

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 ...

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The most stunning moment of Bobby Fischer Against the World, the documentary making its premiere at the Tivoli Theatre last night, would be easy to miss if it weren't so eerie. The charming, 29 ...

Tonight HBO premieres “Bobby Fischer Against the World,” an absolutely phenomenal film that kicks off their summer-long documentary programming — every Monday night — you can read our ...

Chess grand masters have a reputation for possessing the kind of brilliance that’s inclined to tip into madness. Victor Korchnoi claimed he'd played against a dead man, while Wilhelm Steinitz insisted ...

Articles about Bobby Fischer appear in the New York Daily News on September 2, 1972. Spassky phones his resignation to match referee Lothar Schmid at 12:50 p.m. Reykjavik time (8:50 a.m., ...

“Bobby Fischer Against the World” could run as long as a world-championship chess match and not really explain its subject, of course; like anyone, he was who he was in spite of and because of ...

Bobby Fischer Against The World debuts tonight on HBO at 9 p.m. Eastern. Bobby Fischer Against the World, which kicks off HBO's "Documentary Film Summer Series," was directed and produced by Liz ...

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.