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 ...

Born to a Jewish family in Chicago but raised in Brooklyn, New York, Fischer was the only American to ever claim the mantle of world chess champion. Richard Meek / Sports Illustrated Though Fischer ...

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 ...

Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhagen,would auction Bobby Fischer chess memorabilia on June 14, Thursday, in Copenhagen. The auction is being held on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the greatest chess ...

Bobby Fischer, the legendary American chess grandmaster, is remembered not just for his brilliant victories, but also for his sharp insights into the game. One of his most famous quotes is: “I don’t ...

During the ‘Match’ following word that chess was categorized as another exciting version of the widespread draughts and which was delivered by a curious soldier of the former British empire who saw ...

In a sport where mainstream attention is often hard to come by, Bobby Fischer was a lightning rod. His brilliance on the chessboard was only matched by his, at times, bizarre nature away from it.

Chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer was a full-on celebrity after defeating Boris Spassky in 1972. His disappearance from public view in 1975 made him all the more mysterious. Fischer inspired books and ...

Bobby Fischer was the chess world’s flawed genius. His mercurial brilliance was undisputed, but his fragile mental health led to poisonous and very public outbursts - especially after 9/11 - that ...

Bobby Fischer, the iconoclastic genius who was one of the greatest chess players the world has ever seen, died on Thursday in a hospital in Reykjavik, Iceland. He was 64. Gardar Sverrisson, a family ...