In a gripping true story set during the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer (Tobey Maguire) finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire.

Tobey Maguire is producing the film and may take on the role of Fischer. Oscar-nominated Dirty Pretty Things screenwriter Steven Knight has penned the movie and Fincher could make it after he ...

TORONTO (Reuters) - There might have been something more nerve-wracking than being an opponent to world chess champion Bobby Fischer, and that was being the mercurial man's minder. "Pawn Sacrifice," a ...

The actor plays Bobby Fischer in the biopic Pawn Sacrifice, which opens Sept. 25. The film chronicles the chess icon’s troubled rise to global fame at the height of ...