One night in 1960, author and chess fan Frank Brady sat down for dinner in a Greenwich Village tavern. Across the table from him was Bobby Fischer, just a teenager but already a grand master of the ...

The Mozart of the chessboard is inseparable from the monster of paranoid egotism in this fascinating biography. Brady (Citizen Welles), founding publisher of Chess Life magazine and a friend of ...

Robert James "Bobby" Fischer was an American chess prodigy, grandmaster, and the eleventh World Chess Champion. Many consider him the greatest chess player of all time. At age 13 Fischer won a ...

Bobby Fischer rose through the ranks from a young age to become the King (and Queen and Knight and Rook…) of Chess. But amid ...

He’s largely forgotten now, but in his day chess champion Bobby Fischer was legendary. A whiz kid with minimal social skills but prodigious competitive talent, he was considered the Bob Dylan of the ...

Steven Weintraub launched Collider in the summer of 2005. As Editor-in-chief, he has taken the site from a small bedroom operation to having millions of readers around the world. Over the years, he ...

Our first glimpse of Bobby Fischer in "Pawn Sacrifice" is not the chess grandmaster's proudest moment. The year is 1972, when Fischer took on Soviet champion Boris Spassky for the world title in ...

Grandmaster Bobby Fischer, pictured above in 1971 at age 28, is considered to have been the world's most brilliant chess player. In his new Fischer biography, Endgame, Frank Brady writes that the ...