NPR's Robert Siegel talks with chess writer and grandmaster Andy Soltis about 11th World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer and the movie Pawn Sacrifice.

Like a lot of kids in the summer of 1972, I was riveted by a strange spectacle unfolding in Iceland: a chess match between Soviet grandmaster Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer, the mercurial young ...

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 ...

Our first glimpse of Bobby Fischer in "Pawn Sacrifice" is not the chess grandmaster's proudest moment. The year is 1972, when Fischer took on Soviet champion Boris Spassky for the world title in ...

New York Last weekend a symposium on Bobby Fischer was held at the Marshall Chess Club in Greenwich Village. An audience of about 40 listened to a series of short presentations and exchanged ...

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.

Bobby Fischer, who died yesterday at 64 after decades of hermit-like reclu siveness, was blessed by the chess gods – the sole American to win the game’s world championship – but ultimately ...

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.

The genius and madness of Bobby Fischer is dramatized in <i>Pawn Sacrifice</i>, a movie that, unlike the chess legend, doesn't take risks.