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 ...
"I'm Not Bobby Fischer" Don't call the 18-year-old boy king of chess a geek. He rules a new generation of champs raised on hip-hop and video games. SALON, March 2006 (Note: This is the original version of the story that ...
In the spring of 1984, at the National Elementary Chess Championship in Syracuse, New york, a distraught father began to whisper moves to his son. Across the gymnasium floor, scores of other parents crowded close to the chessboards and nervously d...
Grandmaster Susan Polgar (born April 19, 1969, as Polgár Zsuzsanna) is a Hungarian-born American chess player. She is a member of the Executive Board of the United States Chess Federation, having been elected on July 26, 2007. She is also a...
Fischer and Spassky Ready to Play Chess Not Far From a War Even by his own eccentric standards, the reclusive American chess genius Bobby Fischer has come up with something seriously weird in agreeing to make a comeback against his old rival Bori...
Alekhine's death – an unresolved mystery? – In 1946 Alexander Alekhine, the fourth world champion, was penniless and ailing, ostracized by the chess community. Then, on March 23, the British Chess Federat...
Schachgenie Aljechin (Chess Genius Alekhine) - Hans Müller In the summer of 1957 I participated in the Swedish ...
Deaths of Chess Players Georgy Agzamov (1954-1986) - Russian GM fell between some rocks at a beach and died Alexander Alekhine (1892-1946) - choked to death on a piece of meat in 1946 Johann Allgaier (1763-1823) - dropsy Adolf Anderssen (18...
Bobby Fischer The Bobby Fischer UncchessofficialCheCss Home Page "Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent's mind." - Bobby Fischer Robert Jam...
