He was the youngest U.S. chess champion at age 14, a grandmaster at 15. Bobby Fischer has died in Iceland. He was 64. In 1972, Fischer faced off against Russian world champion Boris Spassky in a match ...

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 ...

A still of Bobby Fischer in “Bobby Fischer Against the World.” (--/Courtesy of HBO Documentary Films) In his Aug. 12 op-ed, "To each his own Olympics," about the upcoming World Chess Championship ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

There have been plenty of superstars in the world of chess. From Bobby Fischer to Garry Kasparov and Magnus Carlsen, players have made headlines around the world and found the kind of celebrity that’s ...

A vast global game of geopolitical chess seemed to be hanging in the balance the morning I met with Garry Kasparov, the Russian chess genius whom many regard as the greatest player of all time. What’s ...

In February 2013 the Investigative Committee of Russia gave Garry Kasparov's 76-year-old mother a call. They were looking for her son. Kasparov had been one of the nation’s brightest lights for ...

Fischer died Thursday in a Reykjavik hospital, his spokesman, Gardar Sverrisson, said. There was no immediate word on the cause of death. Born in Chicago and raised in Brooklyn, Robert James Fischer ...