Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Super Grandmaster Wesley So officially ended the hopes of those who wished to see him represent the Philippines again when he ...

Bobby Fischer, the enigmatic American chess genius who became a Cold War hero with his 1972 defeat of Soviet champion Boris Spassky but fell from grace in later decades when he became a recluse and ...

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with chess writer and grandmaster Andy Soltis about 11th World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer and the movie Pawn Sacrifice. In the summer of 1972, the world's attention was ...

It was the chess master’s tragedy that the messy, tawdry details of his life often overshadowed the sublime genius of his game. Fischer, who died Thursday at the age of 64, was a child prodigy, a ...

The chess puzzle may have had an early and accomplished aficionado: Leonardo da Vinci. A manuscript penned around 1500 gives experts reason to believe da Vinci may have come up with the striking and ...

Even if your knowledge of chess is limited to that scene in the first Harry Potter movie, there's one chess player whose name you probably know. Bobby Fischer was such an iconic American player that ...