For older chess players who learned the game long ago, Bobby Fischer's 1960's Boys Life (the official Boys Scouts of America magazine) column brings back nostalgic memories. Those where the days ...

1993 Chess film 'Searching For Bobby Fischer' was based on the true-life story of chess prodigy Josh Waitzkin, who has since left the game. Find out why and what Waitzkin is up to now.

Former chess champion Bobby Fischer won a major battle in his fight against deportation to the United States when a court ruled Wednesday he can stay in Japan until his lawsuit against the ...

The late Bobby Fischer was a chess prodigy who grew up to become one of the greatest chess players of all time. In later years, Fischer was also a reclusive nomad, who made anti-American and anti ...

Bobby Fischer might have been the greatest chess player who ever lived, but he was a deeply troubled man who descended into paranoia and hatred. Author Frank Brady, who knew Fischer, charts his ...

On the 40th anniversary of his legendary 1972 victory over Boris Spassky, LIFE.com presents pictures of Bobby Fischer as a young man.

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.

It also makes one wonder whether a creative genius like Fischer, deeply troubled yet supremely functional at the chessboard, would be able to exist in today’s unforgiving Internet world.

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow. He was ...