Bobby Fischer was only 29 when, in the midst of the Cold War, he defeated the Russian defending champion Boris Spassky in the World Chess Championship on September 1, 1972, ending 24 years of ...

Bobby Fischer has always worked at his chess with deadly intensity— an unkempt kid, his hazel eyes glowering beneath a snarl of mouse-brown hair as he systematically plotted checkmate after ...

Fischer was a culture star in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, a rangy kid from Brooklyn who, for a moment, made chess both sexy and patriotic — and, for the first time, profitable.

Fischer, one of the greatest chess players of all time, was also a recluse who made anti-American and anti-Semitic statements and seemed increasingly lost in the depths of his own mind. Filmmaker ...

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 ...

1972: Chess champ Bobby Fischer on 60 Minutes 09:19. Most of us think of chess as a thoughtful, contemplative game, but here at 60 Minutes, we've learned that among grandmasters, chess is a blood ...

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 1943 - 2008 Bobby Fischer, the iconoclastic genius who was one of the greatest chess players the world has ever seen, died on Jan. 17, 2008 in a hospital in Reykjavík, Iceland.

From the time Fischer emerged as a 14-year-old Brooklyn wunderkind in 1958, to his 2008 death after years of living as a social and political pariah, Fischer captivated the public's attention.

Bobby Fischer 1943 - 2008 Bobby Fischer, the iconoclastic genius who was one of the greatest chess players the world has ever seen, died on Jan. 17, 2008 in a hospital in Reykjavík, Iceland.