At the U.S. Chess Championships under way in St. Louis, all eyes are on America's top-ranked player, and the favorite going into the tournament, Hikaru Nakamura. During the past decade, Nakamura has ...

(Reuters) - Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has died in Iceland at the age of 64. Here are some facts about him: * Fischer, born in Chicago, was the United States' first and only world chess ...

This engrossing documentary by Liz Garbus examines Bobby Fischer’s tumultuous career as the world’s greatest chess grand master and the tortured genius that might have turned him into a paranoid ...

REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has died of an unspecified illness, a spokesman for the late champion said on Friday. He was 64. Fischer, who beat Russian Boris Spassky ...

Fischer was an aggressive player said to have an IQ higher than that of Albert Einstein. In the 1970s and 80s, the un-telegenic, cerebral game came alive to capture headlines and become an instrument ...

CAMBRIDGE – The brilliant new Hollywood movie “Pawn Sacrifice” portrays the life of tormented chess genius Robert James “Bobby” Fischer from his early days as a prodigy to his historic 1972 match, at ...

To capture the zeitgeist of that era, there are clips of male players like Bobby Fischer dismissing the abilities of female players. “Women are terrible chess players,” Fischer smirks in a clip.

The rematch between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky in 1992 looked at a bigger picture and carried a strong political message. It was organised 20 years after Fischer had sort of redefined game-play ...