Of course Bobby Fischer was crazy. It’s charitable to say so, in fact, because if he wasn’t crazy, he was something worse: a poison-dripping hater of Jews and other human beings, and a conspiracy ...

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Bobby Fischer, left, playing Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian at the 1971 chess championship. Photob by Keystone/Getty Images I went to the tiny town of Laugarvatn in southern Iceland to spend a month at ...

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.

This engrossing documentary by Liz Garbus examines Bobby Fischer’s tumultuous career as the world’s greatest chess grand master and the tortured genius that might have turned him into a paranoid ...

The Japanese government is preparing to deport chess legend Bobby Fischer for staying in this country on an invalid passport, immigration officials said Tuesday. Fischer was detained at the ...

Liz Garbus' documentary tells the compelling and powerful story of the late chess prodigy. By James Greenberg PARK CITY — In his heyday in 1972, when he beat Russian Boris Spassky for the World ...

Supporters of Bobby Fischer said the Japanese government has informed them the former chess champion will be allowed to leave on Thursday for Iceland, where he now has citizenship. John Bosnitch of ...

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 ...

On this week’s edition of Slate’s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis described the perpetual search for the “next Bobby Fischer.” An adapted transcript of the audio recording is below, ...