"I´m not Bobby Fischer"
"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 ...
FATHERING A CHESS PRODIGY.
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...
Susan Polgar
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...
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...
An unresolved mystery?
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...
Chess Genius - Aljechin
Schachgenie Aljechin (Chess Genius Alekhine) - Hans Müller In the summer of 1957 I participated in the Swedish ...
Deaths of Chess Players
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...
Chess is War!
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...
Marcel Duchamp and chess
Marcel Duchamp was born on July 28, 1887 in Blainville, Cervon in Normandy. As early as 1902 Marcel Duchamp was painting in the garden of the family home. A pioneer of Dadaism and Surrealism, Duchamp was equally passionate about chess. In 1923 ...
Fischer-Spassky 1972 Highlights
World Chess Championship1972 Fischer - Spassky Title MatchHighlights For the first time since 1948, a chess player from outside the Soviet Union had achieved the right to play a match for the World Chess Championship title. The opening cerem...
Lasker´s Bio
Dr. Emanuel Lasker geboren:24.12.1868 &nb...
I was Tortured ,,,, II Jailhouse! by Bobby Fischer
Sick Cop ... I told them I was hungry and especially thirsty, and that there was no running water in my cell. Ich erzählte ihnen, ich war hungrig und vor allem durstig, und dass es keine fließendem Wasser in meiner Zelle. Just to ...
I was Tortured in the Pasadena Jailhouse! by Bobby Fischer
I Was Tortured in der Pasadena Jailhouse! by Von Bobby Fischer Bobby Fischer The World Chess Champion Die World Chess Champion Copyright (c) 1982 by Bobby Fischer Copyright (ã) 1982 von Bobby Fischer All rights reserved Alle...
The world´s greatest Chess Player
“The world's greatest Chess player” Robert James Fischer was b...
Recent Photos of Bobby Fischer
Recent Photos of Bobby FischerRecent Photos of Bobby FischerWith his fiancée Miyoko Watai, who returned to Japan some days ago Recent Photos of Bobby FischerIn animated discussion with friends
Anand
Viswanathan Anand (born December 11, 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster and the current World Chess Champion. Anand is one of four players in history to break the 2800 mark on the FIDE rating list and he has been among the top three ranked ...
Best players on the planet
World Chess Champions The best players on the planet - past and present Unofficial Louis-Charles de La Bourdonnais France 1834 Howard Staunton ...
Bobby´s Bio
Robert James (Bobby) Fischer geboren:09.03.1943 ...
Fischers "Kalter Schach-Krieg" II
Als Robert James Fischer Ende Oktober 1971 das Herausfordererrecht gegen den zehnten Weltmeister Boris Spasski erkämpft hatte, nahm in seinem Heimatland der Absatz von Schachspielen sprungartig um 20 Prozent zu. Fast jede Tages- und Wochenzei...
Fischers "Kalter Schach-Krieg"
1970 absolvierte Robert James Fischer das hektischste Jahr seiner Karriere. Doch der Erfolg gab ihm Recht. Aus 74 Turnierpartien holte er 59 Punkte. Knapp 80 Prozent lautete die stolze Bilanz. Nach einem gemächlichen Vierteljahrhundert Schach...
Richard Réti
Richard Réti (28 May 1889, Pezinok (now Slovakia) – 6 June 1929, Prague) was an Austrian-Hungarian, later Czechoslovakian chess player, chess author, and chess problemist. He was born in Pezinok which at the time was in the Hungarian ...
Get good to really appreciate greatnessin others.
One of the greatbenefits of being a grandmaster is that it allows me to really appreciate how hard it is to be good at anything. The field may vary: sports, entertainment, law, medicine, farming, pottery. Whatever the endeavor, the top performers ...
Female Chess Players
Addition: 2/16/08 So, I've been teaching more females to play - including my mother-in-law, grandmother-in-law, and potential future sisters-in-law. This is especially useful in long visit with grandma - as she is not fluent ...