Our first glimpse of Bobby Fischer in “Pawn Sacrifice” is not the chess grandmaster’s proudest moment. The year is 1972, when Fischer took on Soviet champion Boris Spassky for the world ...

Director Liz Garbus’s achievement is in making Bobby Fischer's story palpable to an audience that may have been too young to witness Fischer capture American pop culture like some Michael ...

The movie pitch practically writes itself: “‘Sunset Boulevard’ meets ‘Searching for Bobby Fischer’ — Norma Desmond, with enough chess smarts to slay the Soviets and Deep Blue.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with chess writer and grandmaster Andy Soltis about 11th World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer and the movie Pawn Sacrifice.

Our first glimpse of Bobby Fischer in "Pawn Sacrifice" is not the chess grandmaster's proudest moment. The year is 1972, when Fischer took on Soviet champion Boris Spassky for the world title in ...

I wish Wes Anderson would cut a clean version. No matter, because I’ve got something really good this week: Searching for Bobby Fischer, a movie about a chess prodigy filled with positive messages.

Too Big to Fail HBO Bobby Fischer Against the World HBO  In the last few weeks, America has had the chance to see two disturbing movies about our warping emphasis on heroes. Both of them ...

Bobby Fischer has been swindled out of a "vast fortune" in royalties by book publishers, movie studios, and clock manufacturers (yes, clock manufacturers), who have brazenly pilfered his brand ...

For director Shawn Levy, the film playing heavy on his mind at the moment - and one he nominated as his favourite to Digital Spy - is "a semi-obscure movie called Searching for Bobby Fischer ...

TIFF: Tobey Maguire's Bobby Fischer movie sells for low seven figuresIn advance of its world premiere tonight in Toronto, Pawn Sacrifice, Ed Zwick’s movie about erratic chess genius Bobby ...

'Bobby Fischer Against the World' explores the paranoia-fueled life of the intellectually brilliant chess champion.