Born to a Jewish family in Chicago but raised in Brooklyn, New York, Fischer was the only American to ever claim the mantle of world chess champion. Richard Meek / Sports Illustrated Though Fischer ...

The Washington Square Park in New York sees chess hustlers dare passersby to a game under leafy canopies, earning as much as ...

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 ...

Bobby Fischer, checkmated by death Thursday in Iceland at the age of 64, was one of those towering and eternally fascinating geniuses that you would never want to be, not for a moment. He did one ...