REYKJAVIK, Iceland, March 21 -- Iceland, the country where Bobby Fischer won the world chess championship a generation ago, granted citizenship to the 62-year-old recluse Monday, a boost to Fischer's ...

Supporters of Bobby Fischer said the Japanese government has informed them the former chess champion will be allowed to leave on Thursday for Iceland, where he now has citizenship. John Bosnitch of ...

David Edmonds and John Eidinow are co-authors of "Bobby Fischer Goes to War" (Ecco, 2004) and "Wittgenstein's Poker" (Ecco, 2002). On the face of it, Iceland’s decision to save Bobby Fischer from ...

Got to see a Sarasota Film Festival documentary about Bobby Fischer yesterday. Back in 2005, while I was living with my parents (“in-between jobs”) (…shut up), I watched a lot of SportsCenter in my ...

It wasn’t a smart move. After decades of evading the public eye and U.S. justice officials, former world champion Bobby Fischer — possibly the best and certainly the most eccentric chess player ever — ...

He was the youngest U.S. champion at 14; a grand master by 15. At 29, he became a Cold War hero, dethroning the Soviet world champion in a famous '72 match against Boris Spassky. He would go on to ...

In the cosmopolitan cant of chess players, it is legend that masters of the game are all meshuga—Yiddish for a little batty. But when they talk of Brooklyn’s Bobby Fischer, the newly crowned U.S.

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 ...