It’s also well-known that playing as white offers at least a slight (but sometimes decisive) advantage during any given match ...

The first official FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship will take place in Weissenhaus, Germany, adding a new title to the ...

FIDE has announced the inaugural Freestyle Chess World Championship, taking place in Germany. The competition introduces the Fischer Random format on the world stage, involving eight competitors. A ...

Bobby Fischer, the reclusive American chess master who became a Cold War icon when he dethroned the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky as world champion in 1972, has died. He was 64. Fischer died Thursday ...

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. He was ...

Madison City Chess League's recent Queen's Quest chess tournament, held at the Mill Creek Elementary School, Madison, set a record turnout for the annual event. Over the last couple of weekends, chess ...

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 ...

The story of chess champion Bobby Fischer was always ripe for a Hollywood adaptation, rich in Cold War paranoia, FBI surveillance, media celebrity and mad genius. It’s the sort of “Beautiful Mind” ...

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.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with chess writer and grandmaster Andy Soltis about 11th World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer and the movie Pawn Sacrifice. In the summer of 1972, the world's attention was ...

This April 28, 1962 file photo shows chess star Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn in New York. AP REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Authorities in Iceland have exhumed the body of American chess champion Bobby Fischer to ...

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 Moscow. He was 88.