It’s also well-known that playing as white offers at least a slight (but sometimes decisive) advantage during any given match ...

This is the Game Of The Century, an amazing historical chess game between Donald Byrne and Bobby Fischer, played in New York ...

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 ...

At the mention of the game of chess, many people will immediately think of great players such as Garry Kasparov or current Netflix hit series The Queen’s Gambit. The 1993 film, Searching for Bobby ...

Bobby Fischer, the the first American to win the world chess championship, only to resign it undefended, will play a $5-million exhibition match here against Boris Spassky, the Russian he defeated for ...

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 ...

Artist LeRoy Neiman could have been summarizing the HBO documentary "Bobby Fischer Against the World" when he talked about his 1972 assignment to memorialize the historic chess match between American ...

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 ...

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 ...