US chess champion Bobby Fischer and the two 'K's -- Garry Kasparov and Anatoli Karpov -- have co-written the modern history of the game, with a chapter devoted to East-West confrontation. In the 1970s ...

MOSCOW (AP) — 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 ...

Three years after his death, interest in chess genius Bobby Fischer shows no sign of waning, with a new documentary film about to have its UK premiere. So what is it about the controversial and ...

Half a century after Fischer, chess’s icons are now Carlsen and Stockfish on facebook (opens in a new window) Half a century after Fischer, chess’s icons are now Carlsen and Stockfish on linkedin ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Bobby Fischer, who died on Thursday aged 64, was a high school dropout who may have been the greatest chess player of all time, but ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. There’s nothing like a good chess match to heat up a Cold War. On July 11, 1972, the World Chess Championship opened as ...

HT chronicled the ”Match of the Century” – played in Reykjavik, Iceland – which became as much a clash of cultures as of personalities: the outspoken and eccentric Fischer versus the measured and ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland -- "Chess," Bobby Fischer once said, "is life." It was the chess master's tragedy that the messy, tawdry details of his life often overshadowed the sublime genius of his game.

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. By The ...