The challenge of “Pawn Sacrifice” was to capture the colorful Cold War ’70s, the inner strategies of one man’s paranoid mind and make chess cinematic. Check, and mate. Tobey Maguire stars as Bobby ...
He was the youngest U.S. chess champion at age 14, a grandmaster at 15. Bobby Fischer has died in Iceland. He was 64. In 1972, Fischer faced off against Russian world champion Boris Spassky in a match ...
No sports fan need be reminded of the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, but what about the agony of victory, the unraveling that can occur when your triumph is so complete there are no more ...
REYKJAVIK, ICELAND, Sept. 1 – Bobby Rischer of Brooklyn is world chess champion, the first American to hold that title since it was established 1866. This morning when it was announced that Russian ...
I’m not sure whether the bizarre tale of Bobby Fischer tells us more about the nature of chess, the nature of the United States of America or the twisted dynamics of the Cold War. But it is ...
Fred Waitzkin is the author of "Searching for Bobby Fischer" (Penguin, 1993) and, most recently, "The Last Marlin: The Story of a Father and Son." I recall a crisp, terribly exciting fall afternoon in ...
This week in San Diego, 64 hunched and pensive brainiacs have been competing for the coveted title of United States Chess Champion. The winner, to be decided Sunday, will take home $25,000. That’s ...
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