This table gives a snapshot of the number of Americans in the top echelons of chess since 1972, the year of American Bobby Fischer's world championship. While the U.S. has had more players in the world's top 100 before, it hasn't had such a top-heavy
The story of chess champion Bobby Fischer was always ripe for a Hollywood adaptation, rich in Cold War paranoia, FBI surveillance, media celebrity and mad genius. It's the sort of "Beautiful Mind" narrative that can make for juicy awards bait. Yet
"What were you doing – were you spying on me?" A fascinating new featurette has debuted for the film Pawn Sacrifice, starring Tobey Maguire as chess prodigy Bobby Fischer. The film is an extensive look at Fischer's time battling Russian rival Boris
Bobby Fischer is one of the 20th century's most celebrated sportsmen. The brash American chess prodigy became an international superstar, cemented in a Cold War confrontation with Soviet champion Boris Spassky that doubled as a political ploy between
Actors Lily Rabe and Michael Stuhlbarg speak about their film "Pawn Sacrifice," based on the true story of American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer. And journalist M.R. O'Connor explores the scientists who are on quests to save unique animals from extinction.