Is there a link between chess and madness? It's a reasonable question, since the game has attracted more than its share of oddballs and troubled souls - some of them extremely troubled. It's also a ...

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 ...

At the U.S. Chess Championships under way in St. Louis, all eyes are on America's top-ranked player, and the favorite going into the tournament, Hikaru Nakamura. During the past decade, Nakamura has ...

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 64. By The ...

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.