Bobby Fischer, the enigmatic American chess genius who became a Cold War hero with his 1972 defeat of Soviet champion Boris Spassky but fell from grace in later decades when he became a recluse ...

(Originally published on March 27, 2005. This was written by Wayne Coffey.) REYKJAVIK, Iceland – Late Thursday night, beneath a soft rain that came in off the Atlantic, Bobby Fischer of Brook… ...

REYKJAVIK — 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.

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.

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.

REYKJAVIK, Iceland – 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.

Bobby Fischer, the reclusive ... He was 64. Fischer died Thursday in a Reykjavik hospital, his spokesman, Gardar Sverrisson, said. There was no immediate word on the cause of death.

Articles about Bobby Fischer appear in the New York Daily News on September 2, 1972. Spassky phones his resignation to match referee Lothar Schmid at 12:50 p.m. Reykjavik time (8:50 a.m., ...

Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time, David Edmonds and John Eidinow, Ecco Press: 322 pp., $24.95 ...

Bobby hadn’t played a competitive game of chess in public since the 1972 world championship in Reykjavik and Spassky was rated 101st in the world, the chess equivalent of road kill.

REYKJAVIK, Iceland – 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 ...