Bobby Fischer

The Berlin qualifying tournament to determine the challenger to world champion Magnus Carlsen has ended in victory for the American grandmaster and Olympiad gold medallist Fabiano Caruana. Caruana will be the first homegrown American contender since the days of Bobby Fischer in 1972. The world ...

4/8/2018 – 75 years ago, March 9, 1943, Robert James Fischer was born in Chicago. He was genius and madman. In 1972 he became World Champion after winning a dramatic match against Boris Spassky in Reykjavik, and he is still considered as one of the greatest players of all time. Vlastimil Hort knew the 11th World ...

Whenever a glimmer of chess talent is spotted in the United States, people often ask: “Is this the next Bobby Fischer?” In the early 2000s, a diminutive, bespectacled young boy – who by age 9 was already battling seasoned competitors in top-level sections – had his name added to the roster of Fischer ...

Whenever a glimmer of chess talent is spotted in the United States, people often ask: “Is this the next Bobby Fischer?” In the early 2000s, a diminutive, bespectacled young boy – who by age 9 was already battling seasoned competitors in top-level sections – had his name added to the roster of Fischer ...

In the height of the Cold War, an odd character by the name of Bobby Fischer took the world by storm. He won the World Chess Championship in 1972, defeating Boris Spassky of the USSR. Arguably, Fischer's win is one of the greatest of upsets of any contest. Chess was a sport that Soviet players ...

American chess fans everywhere are cheering in the streets, as countryman Fabiano Caruana overcame the game's elite grandmasters to win the recently concluded Candidates Tournament in Berlin, Germany. He is now qualified to play world champion Magnus Carlsen for his title in November. It is the ...

For the first time since Bobby Fischer won the world chess championship in 1972, an American-born player has won the right to play for the world title. Grandmaster Fabiano Caruana won the Candidates tournament in Berlin Tuesday, which means he'll play a 12-game match against world champion ...

The search for a Bobby Fischer may be over. Fabiano Caruana, the Miami-born 25-year-old, will become the first American to play for the undisputed world chess title since the 1970s. Caruana won the right to challenge current champion, Norwegian Magnus Carlsen, by defeating his opponents in a ...

In what's being billed as a historic result for American chess, 25-year-old Fabiano Caruana has emerged after an 18-day competition in Berlin, Germany, as the next challenger for the World Championship title. He will face off against reigning World Champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway in November in a ...

One lone former Oriole has a birthday today: 2011 reliever Clay Rapada. He is turning 37. Is today your birthday? Happy birthday! Your birthday buddies for today include: explorer Amerigo Vespucci (1454), space pioneer Yuri Gagarin (1934), chessmaster Bobby Fischer (1943), actor Oscar Isaac (1979), ...

Kristin Bye, editor of the documentary “Obit,” has won the Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship. The award, announced Wednesday, was created in memory of Karen Schmeer, the film editor of “The Fog of War,” “Fast, Cheap and Out of Control,” and “Bobby Fischer Against the World,” who was killed in a ...

Today the 33rd edition of the popular Reykjavik Open gets underway in the Icelandic capital. This year the tournament will be hosted as the "Bobby Fischer Memorial" — marking the recent 10th anniversary of Fischer's death. Unlike in previous years, "only" nine rounds are played, rather than the traditional ...

Pavel Eljanov (Ukraine), Richard Rapport (Hungary) and Gata Kamsky (USA) are the top seeds at this year's Reykjavik Open - Bobby Fischer Memorial, to be held 6-14 March in Reykjavik, Iceland. Note that Chess.com will be providing the live broadcast on Chess.com/TV with commentators GM Simon ...

Most problems are not particularly simple. Societal and economic problems are incredibly complex, even in a small community. Winning a game of chess against Bobby Fischer or IBM's Watson might be easier. As a result, problems usually require a multi-faceted approach. Unfortunately, that often tempts ...

As the chess world awaits the start of the Candidates this March, a world championship match of sorts was held in Norway: the Fischer Random match between Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura (www.frchess.com). “Fischer Random” is the creation of Bobby Fischer, who introduced it in 1996. His idea ...