Fischer was an aggressive player said to have an IQ higher than that of Albert Einstein. Chess legends Garry Kasparov (right) and Anatoli Karpov play chess in Valencia, Spain, in September 2009, 25 ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland -- Bobby Fischer, the reclusive American chess master who became a Cold War icon when he dethroned the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky as world champion in 1972, has died. He was 64.

Boris Spassky, Chess Champion Who Lost ‘Match of the Century,’ Dies at 88 When Mr. Spassky, a Russian, played Bobby Fischer, an American, in Iceland at the height of the Cold War, the media attention ...