He was probably the greatest chess player the world has ever seen. He also was virulently anti-American and anti-Semitic, odd because he was born in Chicago to a Jewish woman. Bobby Fischer, who ...

Fred Waitzkin is the author of "Searching for Bobby Fischer" (Penguin, 1993) and, most recently, "The Last Marlin: The Story of a Father and Son." I recall a crisp, terribly exciting fall ...

After an international hunt that lasted more than a decade, U.S. authorities have finally nabbed a slippery fugitive from justice: former chess wunderkind BOBBY FISCHER, 61. (We feel safer already ...

SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER, directed and written by Steven Zaillian, based on the book by Fred Waitzkin; director of photography, Conrad L. Hall; music composed by James Horner; ...

Even in the grave, it seems, one-time chess prodigy and wandering recluse Bobby Fischer has not escaped controversy. The AP reports (h/t: ABA Journal) that Iceland's Supreme Court orderedearlier ...

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.

Fischer grew up and learned chess in Brooklyn, and for those not old enough to remember his iconic role in the Cold War, the Washington Square Park scenes from the movie Searching for Bobby ...

Try Japan. His travel documents are ready and he's got a plane ticket. Everything is arranged for the former chess champion to avoid U.S. charges by going to Iceland ...