Fifty years ago, right in the middle of the Cold War, an eccentric American named Bobby Fischer upended a long reign of Russian dominance in chess, and the world was forever changed. Untold numbers ...
TOKYO — For 12 years he has stayed one move ahead of the U.S. government he despises, always in motion, hard to corner. But American justice may have finally caught up with Bobby Fischer. Wanted for ...
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. Fisher died of ...
Bobby Fischer, the chess genius who careened during his life from Cold War hero to eccentric international exile, died yesterday in Iceland, where he had lived since 2005. He was 64. Fischer's ...
At a time before his country became a chess powerhouse, he defeated four world champions, including Bobby Fischer and another in an unlikely turn of events. By Dylan Loeb McClain When Mr. Spassky, a ...
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 ...
Quote of the day by Bobby Fischer: Bobby Fischer, the legendary chess grandmaster, famously stated, "I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves." This philosophy underlined his practical ...
MOSCOW – 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 Moscow. He ...
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