Iceland says it has offered a residency visa to former US chess champion Bobby Fischer. Mr Fischer is detained in Japan and is wanted in the United States for violating international sanctions against ...

Mr. Spassky faced off against American grandmaster Bobby Fischer of the United States in Siegen, West Germany, in 1970, two years before their epic match in Reykjavik, Iceland.

When Fischer won the international chess crown in Reykjavik, Iceland, the then-29-year-old chess genius from Brooklyn, New York, brought the U.S. its first world chess title.

Bobby Fischer, right, and Boris Spassky play their last game together in Reykjavik, Iceland, Aug. 31, 1972. / Credit: J. Walter Green / AP ...

Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion and Cold War symbol, dies at 88 His 1972 match against Bobby Fischer, the American chess star, became known as the “Match of the Century.” ...

REYKJAVIK, ICELAND - Lawmakers in Iceland are likely to grant citizenship to mercurial chess genius Bobby Fischer, who currently sits in a Japanese cell, a member of a parliamentary committee ...

Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has arrived in Iceland's capital, Reykjavik, after spending eight months in detention in Japan. Mr Fischer has been granted Icelandic citizenship, avoiding ...

Bobby Fischer was buried in Iceland in 2008. His opponent in the "Match of the Century," the Russian Boris Spassky, now lives in seclusion in Moscow — the effects of two strokes have confined ...

Fischer finally got to Iceland and the best-of-24-game championship match could begin. It was not the start the challenger had hoped for, losing the first game to Spassky who was not fazed by the ...

Bobby Fischer became a raging antisemite, despite his mother and biological father being Jewish. He also applauded the 9/11 attack on the twin towers in New York.

Bobby Fischer on his way to a game at the championship held in Reykjavik, Iceland in August, 1972 Deutsche Welle Where is Bobby Fischer? It is July 1, 1972, and the National Theater in Reykjavik is ...