Artist LeRoy Neiman could have been summarizing the HBO documentary "Bobby Fischer Against the World" when he talked about his 1972 assignment to memorialize the historic chess match between American ...

A documentary about Bobby Fischer has won a top prize at the Grierson Trust's British Documentary Awards. Bobby Fischer Against the World chronicled the life of the chess grandmaster until his death ...

PARK CITY, Utah (Hollywood Reporter) - In his heyday in 1972, when he beat Russian Boris Spassky for the World Championship, chess prodigy Bobby Fischer was like a rock star, as famous and revered as ...

Liz Garbus' documentary tells the compelling and powerful story of the late chess prodigy. By James Greenberg PARK CITY — In his heyday in 1972, when he beat Russian Boris Spassky for the World ...

MOSCOW – Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow. He ...

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 ...

In this Gilles Carle feature documentary on the game of chess, the international chess match is cast as a classic Western shoot-out. Three chess greats dominate the film: Russia's Anatoly Karpov; ...

Unpack that. Can you imagine anything of the sort happening today? A nationally televised chess game? Classified under “sports”? It certainly was a different world: Nixon was president, the Cold War ...

The Chicago-born Bobby Fischer held the distinction between 1972 and 1975 after he defeated the Russian Boris Spassky in what is still called the “Match of the Century.” The championship, played in ...