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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

This is the Game Of The Century, an amazing historical chess game between Donald Byrne and Bobby Fischer, played in New York on October 17, 1956. [Site "New York"] [Date "1956.10.17"] [White "Byrne, ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW MIDWAY -- For a Frederick County couple, the recent death of Bobby Fischer rekindled the memory of a bizarre encounter with the reclusive chess grandmaster. About 30 years ago, Fischer invited ...

MOSCOW (AP) — 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 ...

A woman was pronounced dead after being found with multiple gunshot wounds by Houston police at a self-storage unit at 6400 Eastex Freeway at 10:15 a.m. on Nov. 5, 2025, in northeast Houston. Read ...