Who is Bobby Fischer? Bobby Fischer, at the age of sixteen, was a world chess champion with an IQ of 180 and an astonishing memory! Half-Jewish, half non-Jewish, he is one of the greatest American chess players of all time. He is mysterious an...
Six moves toward a world championship Bobby Fischer transformed a routine elimination match into high drama with an astonishing string of victories that alarmed his rivals and forced Soviet experts to revise their assessmen...
A Fischer Prank After the collapse of the Soviet Union many of their stars settled in other countries. Edward Gufeld, now 66, is a colorful ...
Bobby Fischer: Demise of a chess legend Bobby Fischer's paranoia, obsessive behaviour and outrageous public statements have all bu...
Department of the Treasury letter to Bobby Fischer Department of the Treasury Washington Aug 21, 1992 Order to Provide Information and Cease and Desist Activities FAC No. 129405 Dear Mr Fischer: It has come to our attention that...
The Fischer King In the surreal setting of war-torn Yugoslavia, reclusive chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer emerged to meet Boris Spassky. At about 3:30 PM on Sept. 2, Bobby Fischer shook hands wi...
Responses to and by Rene Chun for her article Bobby Fischer's Pathetic Endgame Rene Chun's description of the decline into paranoia (whether clinical or not) of Bobby Fischer ("Bobby Fischer's Pathetic Endgame," December Atlantic) offers a dee...
Fish to Fischer Back in those years, it seemed, just about everything was strange; the craziness of Woodstock, the crazierness of Vietnam, and just plain life. It was, I believe, 1970, and I was a college student ...
Bobby Fischer Stories Told by a master; During a tournament in 1959, There was a power outage. All the electricity went out in the building. As you could imaging, everyone was in a state of chaos. After the emergency crews entered the building...
Games three, four and five-all draws-represented another kind of turn in the Fischer fortunes. In the third game Petrosian barricaded his king behind a hedgehog formation and waited for Fischer to come and get him. Fischer made a s...
Bobby Clears The Board For The Title The audience in the Teatro General San Martin in Buenos Aires seemed mesmerized as Bobby Fischer took his seat in a leather desk chair and pushed his king's ...
Bobby Fischer is a ferocious winner Angry voices rattled the door to Bobby Fischer's hotel room as I raised my hand to knock. "Goddammit, I'm sick of it!" I heard Bobby shouting. "I'm sick of seeing people! I got to work, I got to rest! Why didn...
Bobby Fischer - Statement of Facts A very long blow-by-blow description of Fischer's arrest at Narita Airport has appeared in the "Bobby Fischer web site". It is entitled "Kidnapped and railroaded to his ...
Mr. Fischer, demon of the chess world. In the history of championship chess there had never been such an awesome display of power. Seven weeks ago, America's Bobby Fischer defeated a Russian grandmaster name...
By the 11th game Bobby was psychologically unfit to play safe. He wanted victories. Here was the weakness so many commentators had uncovered - an inability to pace himself in a prolonged struggle and thereby allow an opponent the oppor...
A Mystery Wrapped in an Enigma On the day he won the world chess championship [August 31, 1972], Bobby Fischer posed by an Icelandic hot spring, enveloped in its vapors and a native blanket. Since then he has shrouded himself in obscurity, vent...
Bobby Fischer, the Holy Grail - A Balkan OdysseyOnce upon a time, in 1975, a little English girl called Cathy Forbes leaned to play chess. She had heard wonderful tales of a great American champion, Bobby Fischer, who had captured the world chess ...
he Peacock vs. the Wren Not since the youthful pianist Victor Borge, with the whole Danish Royal Symphony sawing away seriously behind him, looked up at the audience in the middle of a long troll--and winked--had a spo...
All the World's a Pawn His gangling body rocked gently back end forth in the black swivel chair, an unconscious, almost metronomic motion that somehow heightened and intensified the drama. At times he leaned back lang...
A Tribute to "Bobby" Bobby Fischer. This enigmatic genius has elevated the game to...
There was great interest in the staging of this match. Belgrade put up the highest bid of 152,000 dollars. Buenos Aires followed with 150,000 dollars, and Reykjavik offered 125,000 dollars. After considerable negotiation, the President of ...
Fischer 1971- 1971 Taimanov candidates quarter final match held in Vancouver Taimanov had been Soviet champion in 1949 and 1956 and had played in the World Championship candidates tou...
1951 Max Pavey simultaneous Implications Fischer lost in about 15 minutes. However Mrs Fischer met Mr Carmine Nigro, president of the Brooklyn chess club, that evening, who invited Fischer to join the club an...
Fischer 1961-1970 1961 Rehevsky match Implications and Drama The play was abandoned because of a dispute indirectly created by Rehevsky's refusal to play on the Jewish ...
